Over the years, engineers have invented many networking technologies for LANs (local area networks). Many are still in use, and many of the very slow ones were abandoned long ago.

The following is a sampling of LAN technologies and their bandwidths.

Sort the technologies from lowest to highest bandwidth, with the lowest on the top and the highest on the bottom:

"LocalTalk" @ 230 kbit/s

"Econet" @ 800 kbit/s

"Omninet" @ 1 Mbit/s

"FireWire" @ 400 Mbit/s

"Gigabit Ethernet" @ 1 Gbit/s

"Omni-Path" @ 100 Gbit/s

"LocalTalk" @ 230 kbit/s

"Econet" @ 800 kbit/s

"Omninet" @ 1 Mbit/s

"FireWire" @ 400 Mbit/s

"Gigabit Ethernet" @ 1 Gbit/s

"Omni-Path" @ 100 Gbit/s

"LocalTalk" @ 230 kbit/s

"Econet" @ 800 kbit/s

"Omninet" @ 1 Mbit/s

"FireWire" @ 400 Mbit/s

"Gigabit Ethernet" @ 1 Gbit/s

"Omni-Path" @ 100 Gbit/s

Explanation:

Bandwidth is an information technological term used to describe the number of bits that can be transfered in a second on a medium.

Bit is a binary digit of 1 and 0. It is a digital representation of data in wired and on wireless medium of data transmission. Eight (8) bit is called a byte, and 1024 bytes makes up a kilobyte (kb), 1024 kb makes up one mega byte (1Mb) and 1024 Mb is called 1Gb. And 1024 gb makes up 1 Tera byte and the size continues to increase.

The Ethernet is a wired network protocol. It's bandwidth has increased over time from the localtalk 230kb/s to the gigabit Ethernet 1Gbit/s and omni-path 100Gbit/s transmission.