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White Paper on GA620/GA620T Gigabit Ethernet Card Performance Gigabit Ethernet adapters represent the next step in the evolution of network performance. The widespread adoption of Fast Ethernet at the desktop has created a bottleneck at the server, specifically at the Server adapter. Some companies - Netgear GA620 | White Paper on Performance - Page 2
Ethernet drivers. This intelligence creates more overhead than a standard 10/100 card. When stressing the network at higher speeds, this overhead is negligible, and improves to the performance of the network. When the cards are run at minimal performance, such the file copy test, the Gigabit card - Netgear GA620 | White Paper on Performance - Page 3
(10/25/2000): 1. One-to-Many: This configuration was comprised of one chassis switch with Fast Ethernet connections to 25 clients (18 Windows NT Workstation, 4 Windows 2000 Professional and 3 Windows 98) and 1-gigabit uplink to the server (Dell PowerEdge 4400/600 server running either Microsoft - Netgear GA620 | White Paper on Performance - Page 4
The latest network interface cards and drivers were used in all tests. Throughout the testing used two different server machines: 1. IBM Netfinity 6000 Server (600MHz, 2GB RAM, BIOS version: 1.02) with dual boot between Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, SP6; 2. DELL
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White Paper on GA620/GA620T Gigabit Ethernet Card
Performance
Gigabit Ethernet adapters represent the next step in the evolution of
network performance.
The widespread adoption of Fast Ethernet at the desktop
has created a bottleneck at the server, specifically at the Server adapter.
Some
companies have created Server adapters with multiple 100 Mbps connections,
while others have populated several PCI slots with 100 Mbps adapters to boost
Server bandwidth beyond Fast Ethernet.
Gigabit Ethernet delivers performance
beyond these aggregation band-aids, by delivering speeds approaching 1 Gbps
.
Network Configurations
Due to the fact that Servers benefit most from Gigabit speeds, the adapter
card drivers are optimized for that environment.
In most networks, the server
distributes information to multiple clients.
For this reason, the driver has been
optimized to perform best in a one-to-many environment.
Using the test program