MPPSC 2017 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(B) Ethernet is the traditionaltechnology for connectingwired local area networks(LANs), enabling devices tocommunicate with each othervia a protocol – a set of rulesor common network language.It was commercially introducedin 1980 and first standardisedin 1983 as IEEE 802.3, andhas since been refined tosupport higher bit rates andlonger link distances