Introduction to Ethernet
- Protocol layers
- Topology, equipments: hub, switch and router
- Collisions, backoff algorithm
- Flow control mechanisms (back pressure and pause packet)
MAC Layer
- Ethernet frame
- Addressing
- Transmit and receive errors detected by the MAC layers
- Description of Synopsys Ethernet IP
Management Layer
- RMON registers
- Simple Network Management Protocol
10 Mbps Networks
- Differential mode transmission
- AUI operation, differential Manchester coding
- 10Base-T
- Repeater
100 Mbps Networks
- Media Independent Interface
- Clause 22 and Clause 45 interfaces
- 4b/5b coding
- Scrambling
- 100Base-TX, MLT-3 modulation
- Auto-negotiation
1000 Mbps Networks
- Medium types
- Gigabit Media Independent Interface
1000Base-T
- Convolutional encoder
- Trellis, Viterbi decoder
- 4D-PAM5, constellations
- PMA layer, PAM-5 modulation,
- Electrical interface, testing transmitter and receiver
1000Base-X
- PCS layer
- Scrambling
- PMA layer
- Auto-negotiation
Power over Ethernet
- Operation
- Protocol
- Software aspects
Precision Time Protocol
- PTP summary
- PTP in the Ethernet MAC layer
- PTP in switches
Switch Operation, 802.1D and 802.1Q
- Switch architecture
- Filtering services
- Spanning tree
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
- Management protocol
- Port mirroring
- Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
- Frame tagging
- Quality of Service
Introduction to TCP/IP
- The TCP/IP protocol stack
- IP
- ARP
- RARP
- ICMP
- UDP
- TCP
- DOS/UNIX TCP/IP commands
Energy Efficient Ethernet
- Studying the sequence to enter LPI
- Studying the wake-up sequence