Gigabit Ethernet is the Ethernet standard offering Gigabit services. The standard typically employs fibre but can be supported on Cat 6 cable. This technology until now has been used for campus style backbone networks; it is now finding its way to the desktop for high end servers and intensive graphical applications.
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