"Andrew Balmos (abalmos)" <please@see.sig> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.11.04.15.26.32.400841@see.sig...

> 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.

Everything said above is completely incorrect. Full-duplex ethernet has
been around for a very long time. In fact, with GigE, all connections are
full duplex (to date nobody has bothered to implement half-duplex).

DS