Gigabit Ethernet is a local area networking technology that delivers units of data, known as packets, at a rate of 1 billion bits, or 1 gigabit, per second. You can see what type of traffic is on gigabit Ethernet network by employing a variety of network traffic monitoring tools, although computer hardware often requires a degree of tuning, so that traffic can be captured and filtered without packets being dropped.
Ethernet operates at layer 2 of the Open Systems Interconnect, or OSI, model. In other words, it relies on an address unique to the hardware installed on each network adapter, instead of a routable, transferable IP address. Ethernet is more efficient in smaller network environments, but large groups of PCs connected via Ethernet -- including the Internet itself -- benefit from segmentation. There are many ways to segment an Ethernet network.