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Fast Ethernet

Fast Ethernet is a local area network (LAN) transmission standard that provides a data rate of 100 megabits per...

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second (referred to as "100BASE-T"). Workstations with existing 10 megabit per second (10BASE-T) Ethernet card can be connected to a Fast Ethernet network. (The 100 megabits per second is a shared data rate; input to each workstation is constrained by the 10 Mbps card.)

This was last updated in April 2007

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