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How can a processor handle 10 Gigabit per second or more data rate?
You are totally correct, if we have to use an instruction cycle per bit then 10Gbps would be unachievable. So the first thing to note is that we handle a word per CPU instruction -- 64 bits.
Even ...
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iperf: send specific volume?
The -l option is for the buffer and doesn't influence the amount of data transferred.
You have to specify the desired amount of data with the client-only option -n in KByte or MByte.
So for 10GB, ...
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Speed benefits when switching LAN from 1Gb copper to Fiber Optic
You are conflating many things here, so let's try to detangle the issues in your question.
Data rate is data rate, regardless of the physical medium. A 1Gb
connection has the same data rate whether ...
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Cisco Router (ISR4221) Throughput - Why so slow?
That's by product design. ISR 4k come with a platform shaper (upgradeable to ~2x the value by license upgrade with the "PERF" license).
Cisco say that the limits of the platform shapers can be fully ...
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Why is microwave faster than infrared as a transmission medium?
Faster in terms of propagation delay? @Zac67 answer is good.
Faster in terms of data throughput? Here, infrared has a huge theoretical advantage.
The whole microwave range consists of about 300GHz ...
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100Mbit vs 1Gb/sec transferring 10MB file...speed difference?
The bandwidth is how fast an interface serializes bits onto the wire. Obviously, a 1 Gbps interface serializes bits 10 times faster than a 100 Mbps interface. With everything else equal, a 1 Gbps ...
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Why is microwave faster than infrared as a transmission medium?
I've read that microwave is a faster medium of transmission of data than infrared.
It's not. Light moves at the speed of light (c0), (pretty much) regardless of its wavelength - in reference to the ...
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Why is microwave faster than infrared as a transmission medium?
Given the context which is severely outdated when not completely false, "infrared" seems to mostly refer to short-range low-bandwidth infrared communications as used:
In many TV remote ...
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The recommended settings for giga ethernet connected to Ethernet port
In reality, the legacy 10 Mbps ethernet interface probably can't negotiate, and it can probably only do half duplex (very few 10 Mbps interfaces can do full duplex). You should let the 1 Gbps ...
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Better throughput with 100 Mb NIC setting
This is a buffering issue. I had the same problem with a new Level 3 circuit. Their NID apparently has no measurable buffers, so feeding it at a rate 10x the circuit rate (1000 vs. 100) leads to all ...
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Fiber to copper conversion, what are the odds?
Fiber media converter is a small device with two media-dependent interfaces and a power supply, simply receive data signals from one media, convert and transmit them to another media. It can be ...
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The recommended settings for giga ethernet connected to Ethernet port
The very short answer: don't configure anything.
Auto negotiation (or the lack thereof as Ron's detailed) works only when it's left alone. Manual settings can very easily cause problems either right ...
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Fibre vs Copper short Distance
The equipment interfaces determine the speed, albeit the medium used may have restrictions on which interfaces it can be used. If you have 1 Gbps ethernet, it doesn't matter if it is copper or fiber, ...
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Will the data transfer with the destination on the same LAN network be routed through the internet when the WAN IP is used?
I assume you're talking about a structure like this:
F
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ISP
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R S
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C
If your router supports so-called "hairpin routing" (or "hairpin ...
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Relationship between full duplex and speed
Full-duplex data transmission means that data can be transmitted in both directions on a signal carrier at the same time.
That is incorrect. It means devices can transmit and receive at the same ...
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Static speed and duplex/no-negotiate causing input error
If you disable Auto Negotiation (AN) you need to make sure that both sides are configured in exactly the same way. There's isn't any point in doing that manually, actually, so you should have AN ...
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Switch Buffer Sizing
First, there is a relationship between buffer size and latency only if there is congestion in the path (too many incoming packets on the input interface, or too many packets for the switching engine (...
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Does the direction of a throughput bottleneck matter?
If a network has a throughput bottleneck, does it matter whether the slow link comes before or after?
No it doesn't, Only matters when destination is before or after that bottleneck link.
What ...
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Can I increase throughput and decrease network latency by installing multiple NICs?
This is an interesting but complicated topic and like most things engineering the answer is: It depends! In this case the lack of detail adds ambiguity (I'm not allowed to comment asking for ...
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Speed benefits when switching LAN from 1Gb copper to Fiber Optic
Working with network shares, the #1 bottleneck is usually the server, not the network. For 20 users each simultaneously moving 400 Mbit/s, the server would have to cope with 8 Gbit/s which is quite a ...
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Cisco 892 Low WAN Speeds
Slightly better than 350Mbit/s? That's probably about as good as it's going to get with an 890 series and with NAT. NAT is probably causing the CPU load, here.
Don't forget: This product range is ...
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Transferring data speed of Fast Ethernet
You'd be correct. However I'd say that what you're referring to as a packet should be considered a file. This is because the data of the file will be truncated (as you put it) into smaller bites of ...
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Bandwidth limit between CPE and Provider Equipment
There is no interface rate that runs at precisely 15 Mbit/s. The most common handover interface is Ethernet which exists for 10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s or faster.
Your plan's data rate is implemented as ...
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Copper or Glass for Low Latency?
You already provide most answers.
Propagation time: apart from (good) coax, copper and fiber are nearly equal. Decent twisted pair is slightly faster than fiber, high quality TP even more so - but ...
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Static speed and duplex/no-negotiate causing input error
By manually setting the speed and duplex on one side with automatic detection on the other side, the side with automatic speed will detect (not negotiate) the correct speed.
For the duplex, ...
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Why is microwave faster than infrared as a transmission medium?
As others have pointed out, both are (almost) the same in terms of propagation speed. I'm assuming the difference is in data rate.
Microwave comms are based on circuitry which can be specifically ...
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Root path cost?
Switch B's root port will be G0/1. This is because the cost for each link is not what speed the port is capable of running, but the speed it is actually running. In this scenario, the link between ...
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The Speed of Hubs and Shared Collision Domains
I am watching a video course from Brocade. The instructor says that "all devices on a single collision domain must operate with the same speed parameters
True.
for example, 100 megabits; full ...
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Cisco 2900 Default Fast Ethernet Port Speed
The default speed and duplex of a Cisco 29xx fast ethernet switch interface which was reset to default settings would be Auto.
ARP frames are really no way to measure an interface speed. An ARP ...
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