Atlantis Land 1000BASE-T User Manual

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increase in theoretical throughput over 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet and a 
hundredfold increase over 10-Mbps Ethernet. Since it is compatible 
with all 10-Mbps and 100-Mbps Ethernet environments, Gigabit 
Ethernet provides a straightforward upgrade without wasting a 
company’s existing investment in hardware, software, and trained 
personnel. 
The increased speed and extra bandwidth offered by Gigabit Ethernet 
are essential to coping with the network bottlenecks that frequently 
develop as computers and their busses get faster and more users use 
applications that generate more traffic. Upgrading key components, 
such as your backbone and servers to Gigabit Ethernet can greatly 
improve network response times as well as significantly speed up the 
traffic between your subnets.  
Gigabit Ethernet supports video conferencing, complex imaging, and 
similar data-intensive applications. Likewise, since data transfers 
occur 10 times faster than Fast Ethernet, servers outfitted with Gigabit 
Ethernet NIC’s are able to perform 10 times the number of operations 
in the same amount of time. 
The phenomenal bandwidth delivered by Gigabit Ethernet was the 
most cost-effective method to take advantage of today’s rapidly 
improving switching and routing internetworking technologies. And 
with expected advances in silicon technology and digital signal 
processing that enabled Gigabit Ethernet to eventually operate over 
unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cabling, outfitting your network with a 
powerful 1000-Mbps-capable backbone/server connection creates a 
flexible foundation for the next generation of network technology 
products.