Question 3574 – UGC NET CS 2016 Aug- paper-2

→ The “100” in the media type designation refers to the transmission speed of 100 Mbit/s, while the “BASE” refers to baseband signalling.
→ The letter following the dash (“T” or “F”) refers to the physical medium that carries the signal (twisted pair or fiber, respectively), while the last character (“X”, “4”, etc.) refers to the line code method used.
→ Fast Ethernet is sometimes referred to as 100BASE-X, where “X” is a placeholder for the FX and TX variants.