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The Ethernet physical layer has evolved over its existence starting in 1980 and encompasses multiple physical media interfaces and several orders of magnitude of speed from 1 Mbit/s to 400 Gbit/s. The physical medium ranges from bulky coaxial cable to twisted pair and optical fiber with a standardized reach of up to 80 km.
Backplane Ethernet enables interoperable solutions within a chassis and supports these applications: 1000BASE-KX – 1Gb/s over 4 pairs up to 1 meter. 10GBASE-KX4 – 10Gb/s over 4 pairs up to 1 meter. 10GBASE-KR – 10Gb/s over 1 pair up to 1 meter. 40GBASE-KR – 40Gb/s over 4 pairs up to 1 meter.
OSI Layer 1. Layer 1 is the physical layer. There’s a lot of technology in Layer 1 - everything from physical network devices, cabling, to how the cables hook up to the devices. Plus if we don’t need cables, what the signal type and transmission methods are (for example, wireless broadband).
The physical layer provides an electrical, mechanical, and procedural interface to the transmission medium. The shapes and properties of the electrical connectors, the frequencies to transmit on, the line code to use and similar low-level parameters, are specified by the physical layer.
KEY TOPIC While the physical layer standards deal with sending bits over cables, the Ethernet data-link protocols focus on sending frames from source to destination. From a data-link perspective, network devices forward frames in a consistent manner over all physical links.
Ethernet Physical Layer. The IEEE 802.3 standard defines a Gigabit or 10 Gigabit PHY as a combination of three building blocks: Physical medium dependent (PMD) Physical medium attachment (PMA) Physical coding sublayer (PCS)
Ethernet PHY, or Physical Layer, works by converting digital data from the Ethernet MAC (Media Access Control) into analog signals that can be transmitted over various physical media. It performs a series of operations to ensure reliable data transmission and reception between network devices.
Ethernet is simply an interface specification (IEEE 802.3) comprising many subsections and specifications defining the physical and data-link layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. One of the most important pieces that came out of IEEE 802.3 is the Ethernet physical layer (PHY) .
OSI Model. The OSI model provides a standard description or "reference model" for how messages should be transmitted between any two points in a telecommunication network. It consists of seven layers and each layer describes the status of the communications, e.g., Ethernet. Figure 2 compares the OSI model with the TCP/IP model and its protocols.
A basic Ethernet PHY is actually quite simple: It is a PHY transceiver (transmitter and receiver) that physically connects one device to another, as shown in Figure 1. This physical connection can be either copper (such as a CAT5 cable, the blue patch cable used in homes) or fiber-optic cable. Figure 1. Ethernet System Diagram.