Related standards

• Networking standards that are not part of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, but support the Ethernet frame format, and are capable of interoperating with it.
  • LattisNet — A SynOptics pre-standard twisted-pair 10 Mbit/s variant.
  • 100BaseVG — An early contender for 100 Mbit/s Ethernet. It runs over Category 3 cabling. Uses four pairs. Commercial failure.
  • TIA 100BASE-SX — Promoted by the Telecommunications Industry Association. 100BASE-SX is an alternative implementation of 100 Mbit/s Ethernet over fiber; it is incompatible with the official 100BASE-FX standard. Its main feature is interoperability with 10BASE-FL, supporting autonegotiation between 10 Mbit/s and 100 Mbit/s operation – a feature lacking in the official standards due to the use of differing LED wavelengths. It is targeted at the installed base of 10 Mbit/s fiber network installations.
  • TIA 1000BASE-TX — Promoted by the Telecommunications Industry Association, it was a commercial failure, and no products exist. 1000BASE-TX uses a simpler protocol than the official 1000BASE-T standard so the electronics can be cheaper, but requires Category 6 cabling.
• Networking standards that do not use the Ethernet frame format but can still be connected to Ethernet using MAC-based bridging.
  • 802.11 — A standard for wireless networking often paired with an Ethernet backbone.
• 10BaseS — Ethernet over VDSL
• Long Reach Ethernet
• Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet
• Metro Ethernet