Now, "doesn't already know" means that there is some memory in an Ethernet switch, which there is.
In the early days of fast Ethernet, Ethernet switches were relatively expensive devices.
The Yankee Group estimates that the market for Ethernet switches will grow from $100 million this year to about $1 billion in 1997.
As a first step, a network based on the predominant infrastructure of Ethernet switches and wireless access points will be built.
Ethernet switches are better at isolating that.
The technology was developed by Kalpana, the company that introduced the first Ethernet switch.
How to restrict multicast traffic to a subset of the ports of an Ethernet switch.
It has a built-in two-port Ethernet switch.
The first Ethernet switch was introduced by Kalpana in 1990.
Fast Ethernet switches were not commonplace at first because of high cost and limited availability so, initially, 100VG had a significant performance advantage.
