Agere Systems introduced a USB 2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter and an ExpressCard form-factor Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. The first product turns a USB 2.0 port into a Gigabit Ethernet LAN connection. The second product enables a PC to support 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet in a compact mini-size ExpressCard compatible with the latest generation of notebook PCs featuring an ExpressCard slot. http://www.agere.com
Agere Offers USB 2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
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You just read about Ethernet. Here is what it replaced:
ARCNET served 1977–1990. What ultimately replaced it?
ARCNET a token-passing bus/star LAN where a token circulated by station address (not physical position), giving predictable performance over coax at 2.5 Mbit/s. Its job passed to Ethernet — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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