5. Switched Ethernet technology. Fast Ethernet 100 Mbit/s

5.1 Full-duplex links and collision disabling

By imposing a minimum packet size of 64 bytes (to enable collision detection in all circumstances), the Ethernet standard is very penalizing for interactive traffic, where information does not exceed a dozen characters per packet. If the station has less than 64 bytes to transmit, it must complete the data with zeros.

Since the first version of Ethernet, there have been major advances in operating speed, with speeds of 100 Mbit/s (Fast Ethernet) and even...