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PHY layer ethernet
See SoftwareDefinedRadio for Ethernet phy layer development by Ettus.

ethernet
passive optical networks http://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Networks-McGraw-Hill-Communications-Engineering/dp/0071445625/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230278654&sr=1-10

http://www.amazon.com/Optical-Fiber-Telecommunications-Fifth-Photonics/dp/0123741726/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230278654&sr=1-11

optical switching networks http://www.amazon.com/Optical-Switching-Networks/dp/0521868009/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Telecoms professionals http://www.amazon.com/Cable-Telecommunications-Professionals-Reference-Third/dp/0240807480/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230278654&sr=1-12

Gigabit ethernet http://www.amazon.com/Gigabit-Ethernet-Metro-Area-Networks/dp/0071393897/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230278654&sr=1-6

Passive optical network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network

Ethernet switches
http://www.firebrick.co.uk/

http://ethernet.industrial-networking.com/articles/articledisplay.asp?id=2376 32 swithces

Serial latency: how many devices? Up to 32 devices in a daisy-chain can be sensibly deployed in an industrial setting. Theoretically there could be dozens of device deployed in a chain through use of store and forward technology ¨C used by both daisy-chain devices and standard Ethernet switches. This assures that each packet is checked for accuracy before being forwarded on the network. The cost of that accuracy is 20-40¦Ìs latency for the average automation protocol message passing through each device. This means that the total time it takes for a message to travel from the first device in a chain of 32 to the last device would be less than 1.3ms absolute worst case.

http://www.ad-net.com.tw/index.php?id=288&gclid=CMbe2vGA3pcCFQoi3godZXdrDQ Fiber switch

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1033085451 Hardware forum

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6240082.html routers for daisy chained components

http://www.windowsbbs.com/hardware/32244-can-routers-daisy-chained.html 4 switches will result in latency

http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/General_UNIX/GENERAL_KVMSwitchesForTheHomeAndTheEnterprise.shtml 16 switches daisy-chain

Newsgroups
* http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/19527-42-switch-question-daisy-chain-home * comp.dcom.lans.ethernet

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