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Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet Position Paper

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Overview The Network Interface Card (NIC) is a Data Link (Layer 2) mechanism for transporting frames to and from a network node. Most commonly, Fast Ethernet NICs are installed on MetaFrame servers, with the NIC and switch port manually configured to support full duplex and 100 Mbps. Because auto-negotiation is not well standardized, hard coding these configurations eliminates potential communication errors. In most instances, a single full duplex Fast Ethernet configuration provides more than adequate throughput to and from a MetaFrame server. This configuration effectively yields to two 100 Mbps pipes for a total throughput of up to 200 Mbps. Moreover, because ICA traffic is compressed, it is generally found that the throughput of a full-duplex Fast Ethernet is underutilized.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Citrix Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2002
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, Network Interface Cards, Fast Ethernet

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