A evolução ethernet até aos dias de hoje….
1970 First packet radio network
1973 Ethernet invented at Xerox
1977 U.S. Patent no. 4063220 issued
1982 DIX releases 10 Mb/s Ethernet (version II)
1983 IEEE approves 802.3 (10BASE-5)
1985 IEEE approves 802.3a (10BASE-2)
1990 IEEE approves 802.3i (10BASE-T)
1995 IEEE approves 802.3u (100BASE-TX)
1997 IEEE approves 802.3x (Full Duplex)
1998 IEEE approves 802.3z (1 Gb/s)
2002 IEEE approves 802.3ae (10 Gb/s)
2010 IEEE approves 802.3ba (40 Gb/s & 100 Gb/s)
2xxx 400Gb/s is comming…