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Flex Ethernet: Breaking the Chains of Physical Bandwidth

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Flex Ethernet: Breaking the Chains of Physical Bandwidth

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  • Author: Anabel Alarcon
Today, Ethernet is one of the fundamental technologies that helps sustain the transport of exponential quantities of information all over the world. This information is transported through different types of physical links (copper, fiber) and even through the air with wireless and Bluetooth® technologies allowing millions of users every day to interconnect without boundaries. This seems so far from 1973 when Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet, wrote a memo describing Ethernet as only a system interconnecting a few computers inside a specific building to form a network. He was inspired by the poetic concept of “Ether” that was considered as the media that helped propagate electromagnetic waves.

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