Since the early 1980's National Semiconductor has been an active leader in the Ethernet networking market. National has provided technology to our customers enabling faster, less expensive, more reliable, solutions for their networking applications.
With the ever increasing demand for faster, less expensive, more reliable networks, National has developed standards based product solutions.
From the introduction of the first Ethernet chips in the early 1980's, supporting coaxial, to devices enabling Twisted Pair Ethernet, to Repeaters, allowing interconnection of separate network segments, and extension of network communication, to Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), National has developed cutting edge, product solutions for our customers.
National provides IEEE 802.3 compliant Ethernet solutions that fit into the lower layers (1 & 2) of the OSI 7 layer communication model.