10 Mbps Networking Standards
There is no specific designation called 'standard Ethernet,' but if there were, it would be assigned to the 10Mbps variants of the IEEE 802.3 standards. Although 10Mbps is now considered too slow for most new networks, there are a large number of existing networks operating at 10Mbps. A number of 10Mbps standards exist, with 10BaseT now being the most common. In the following sections, we discuss a number of the 10Mbps standards.