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Ethernet : Standards

 

 

IEEE Document

Year

Description

802.3a

1985

10Base-2 (thin Ethernet)

802.3c

1986

10 Mb/s repeater specifications (clause 9)

802.3d

1987

FOIRL (fiber link)

802.3i

1990

10Base-T (twisted pair)

802.3j

1993

10Base-F (fiber optic)

802.3u

1995

100Base-T (Fast Ethernet and autonegotiation)

802.3x

1997

Full duplex

802.3z

1998

1000Base-X (Gigabit Ethernet)

802.3ab

1999

1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet over twisted pair)

802.3ac

1998

VLAN tag (frame size extension to 1522 bytes)

802.3ad

2000

Parallel links (link aggregation)

802.3ae

2002

10-Gigabit Ethernet

802.3ah

2004

Ethernet in the first mile

802.3as

2005

Frame expansion

802.3at

2006

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