How Gigabit Ethernet works Gigabit Ethernet provides the best price performance of all the leading high-speed LAN technologies. An important consideration is that Gigabit Ethernet is switched Ethernet, not loop Ethernet. Switched Ethernet switches traffic automatically so there are no collisions. Gigabit Ethernet is easy to install. IT staff can literally plug a storage box in and grant access to all the storage on the system.
Scalability is also easy.
Industrywide, there's a priority on maximizing the efficiency of network storage over Ethernet. By creating a storage protocol that encapsulates SCSI for travel over Ethernet, storage is shared at near line speeds. Proprietary Gigabit Ethernet solutions are available that let businesses use Ethernet as a storage network infrastructure. These solutions use the same process as when data is stored on a PC's local disk, except the data and SCSI commands are put in TCP packets, sent across the network and then taken out of the packets again. However, while proprietary solutions have some technological advantages, industries as a whole benefit from standards.