10BASE5

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Work

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

1

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

10BASE5 (also known as thick Ethernet or thicknet) is a version of Ethernet providing 10 Mbit/s bandwidth over a thick coaxial cable having a maximum length of 500 m (1,600 ft). It was the first commercially available version of Ethernet.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “10BASE5”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia