Wiseowl,
No offense to owls, but since you so respectfully disagreed with me, I have to disagree right back :-)
I specifically said *switched* 100 Mbps Ethernet without CSMA (Collission Sense Multiple Access); i.e., with only a single device per port. Maybe I should have made that clearer. When you do it that way, you really do get the whole bandwidth. In some sense you get 200 Mbps since you can transmit and receive at the same time. You might say that this is cheating since you are effectively taking a bus topology and turning it into a star.
By the way, for what it is worth, I am a network engineer of sorts. I received my doctorate in CS and I really do know what I am talking about. Yeah, it sounds somewhat pompous, but this is one area where I have probably forgotten more than a lot of network engineers will ever know :-)
In my considered opinion, FDDI is dead except for a very few special situations. Ethernet is alive and well and will be for quite some time.
Cheers, Torben |
