Ethernet is a network access method in which a node wanting to transmit data first must determine if any if other node is sending a transmission.
– IF so, the node waits a short period of time and then checks again when no transmissions are being sent, the node sends its transmission.
– When two nodes check and then transmit at the same time, their two transmission collide. Both nodes then stop transmitting, wait a random amount of time, check again, and the send their transmission.
• Networking using a bus or star topology commonly use the Ethernet access method.
– Which can transmit data from 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps to 1000 Mbps