> > - does GbE mean each direction (half-duplex) can transfer 1 Gbit/sec,
and
> > full-duplex can transfer 2 Gbit/sec?
> > - what wire speed (GByte/sec) is, and is it for half or full duplex?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > T.
>
> Ethernet can only send a packet one direction at a time (i.e. a packet can
> not be coming to the NIC and leaving the NIC at the same time) if that
> happens you have whats called a media collision in networking. So GbE
> allows you to send 1 Gig of data per second, any amount of that 1 Gig can
> be going either way.
>
> Wire speed is that of how much data it can send per second. In this case 1
> Gig.
>

Thanks.

So, the definition of "wire speed" is not only for GbE. Both GbE and 10GbE
have so called "wire speed", but they are 10 times different, correct?

T.
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