translate English to German: Although the wiring is identical to hubbed Ethernet, with switches instead of hubs, switched Ethernet has several advantages over shared medium Ethernet, including greater bandwidth and simplified wiring. Switched networks typically have a star topology, even though they still implement a single Ethernet "cloud" from the viewpoint of attached machines.
Der ursprüngliche Xerox Version 1 Ethernet-Frame hatte ein 16-bit-Feld, in dem die Länge des Frames hinterlegt war, obwohl die maximale Paketlänge auf 1.500 Bytes begrenzt war.