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The CD in CSMA/CD stands for "collision detection." Since multiple devices (potentially) share the same network (the MA or "multiple access" portion of the name) when they are sending data, there must be a way to tell if two devices are trying to send at the same time (a "collision"). The way that a typical CSMA/CD protocol such as Ethernet does this is by having each device "listen" during its own transmission. If it "hears" another device starting to send while it is already sending, it stops and tries again after some delay.

Part of this is defining a minimum packet length that is long enough that, for a given length of wire, any given sender can be sure that the beginning message got all the way to the other sender before it assumes there was no collision and that it succeeded in sending the packet. Even at nearly the speed of light, it takes some time for that signal to go down the wire.

With 10 Base-T Ethernet (10 million bits/second), the 64 byte minimum would take long enough that the signal could get a kilometer down the line before the first sender was done. With 100 Base-TX, the same minimum only gets 1/10 the distance (100m) because the bits are being sent out ten times faster. With gigabit Ethernet, they actually had to increase the minimum packet length just to make sure that the cable length could stay at 100m.

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