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Fast Ethernet

Ethernet standards that carry data at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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In computer networking, Fast Ethernet physical layers carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s. The prior Ethernet speed was 10 Mbit/s. Of the Fast Ethernet physical layers, 100BASE-TX is by far the most common.

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Intel PRO/100 Fast Ethernet NIC, a PCI card

Fast Ethernet was introduced in 1995 as the IEEE 802.3u standard[1] and remained the fastest version of Ethernet for three years before the introduction of Gigabit Ethernet.[2] The acronym GE/FE is sometimes used for devices supporting both standards.[3]