Course Map
  1. 1. Course Navigation
    1. 1.1 Course Navigation
  2. 2. What Are Networks?
    1. 2.1 What is networking?
    2. 2.2 Ethernet Emerges Victorious
    3. 2.3 Ethernet at National
  3. 3. Standards Relevant to Ethernet Networking
    1. 3.1 Standards Organizations Structure
    2. 3.2 OSI Model
    3. 3.3 OSI Model Layers
    4. 3.4 OSI Model vs IEEE 802.3
    5. 3.5 The "Stack"
    6. 3.6 IEEE 802.3
  4. 4. A Brief History of Ethernet
    1. 4.1 History of Ethernet
    2. 4.2 Network Topologies
  5. 5. Differences between Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
    1. 5.1 10BASE-T Ethernet
    2. 5.2 100BASE-T Fast Ethernet
    3. 5.3 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet
  6. 6. Ethernet Packet Format
    1. 6.1 Ethernet Packet Format
    2. 6.2 Special cases
  7. 7. Ethernet Performance
    1. 7.1 Performance as it relates to networking
  8. 8. Additional Reading for Ethernet and Networking
    1. 8.1 Network Resources
  9. 9. Closing Comments
    1. 9.1 Things to Remember