Building the (Data) Base

One example: gigabit ethernet. Gigabit ethernet is fast becoming an industry standard—providing commercial printers with a backbone technology that provides significantly higher bandwidth capabilities, allowing the latest RIP workstations and workgroup servers to function faster.

Gigabit ethernet is a networking technology that, quite simply, allows a commercial printing operation to transfer digital data around its organization fast—at 1,000 mbps, in other words, 1,000 megabits or 1 million bits of data per second.