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Gigabit Ethernet Design Project Final Report ECE4430 – Group 3 By: Ashley Lee and Shaun Rosemond Date: December 11, 2001 Table of Contents Title Page Number Abstract 2 Background 3 Design 8 Results 20 Conclusion 30 Resources 31 Appendix I. Abstract II. Background With the advancement of technology, the need for increased performance and speed has been driven with the arrival of multimedia, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and other business applications such as databases, applications, and data warehousing. As Figure 1 shows, server bottlenecks and increased traffic from more users are the leading reason for most companies purchasing higher performance network devices. Figure 1. Factors Driving High Performance Purchases Theory Behind Gigabit Ethernet With the advancement of Ethernet to Fast Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet in 1998, the ability to achieve faster speeds while maintaining cost effectiveness is still possible. With Gigabit Ethernet, speed of up to 1000 Mbps is achieved, which is ten to a hundred times the speed of Ethernet. This advancement required changes to be made in the physical layer of the OSI model. From the Data Link layer and up, Gigabit Ethernet operates the same as Ethernet and Fast Ethernet. Due to the existing high-speed physical interface technology of FiberChannel, changes were made to combine the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and ANSI X3T11 FiberChannel standards. These resulted in the IEEE 802.3z, for fiber and copper, and IEEE802.3ad standards, for Category 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable. For the differences between Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, a look at the physical layer must be done. The allowable configurations are short-wave (SX), long-wave (LX), long-haul (LH), and copper physical interfaces (CX); only short-wave, long-wave and copper will be supported at first. For the fiber-optic communications, the encoding scheme is very similar to the 8B/10B encoding scheme, wh