| ate | Description | | xperimental Ethernet | 1972 (patented 1978) | 2.94 Mbit/s over coaxial cable (coax) cable bus |
| thernet II (DIX v2.0) | 1982 | 10 Mbit/s over thin coax (thinnet) - Frames have a Type field. The internet protocol suite use this frame format on any media. |
| EEE 802.3 | 1983 | 10BASE5 10 Mbit/s over thick coax - same as DIX except Type field is replaced by Length and LLC fields |
| 02.3a | 1985 | 10BASE2 10 Mbit/s over thin Coax (thinnet or cheapernet) |
| 02.3b | 1985 | 10BROAD36 |
| 02.3c | 1985 | 10 Mbit/s repeater specs |
| 02.3d | 1987 | FOIRL (Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link) |
| 02.3e | 1987 | 1BASE5 or StarLAN |
| 02.3i | 1990 | 10BASE-T 10 Mbit/s over twisted pair |
| 02.3j | 1993 | 10BASE-F 10 Mbit/s over Fiber-Optic |
| 02.3u | 1995 | 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-T4, 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet at 100 Mbit/s (w/Auto-Negotiation) |
| 02.3x | 1997 | Full Duplex |
| 02.3y | 1998 | 100BASE-T2 100 Mbit/s over low quality twisted pair |
| 02.3z | 1998 | 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet over coax at 1 Gbit/s |
| 02.3ab | 1999 | 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet over twisted pair at 1 Gbit/s |
| 02.3ac | 1998 | Max frame size extended to 1522 bytes (to allow VLAN tag) |
| 02.3ad | 2000 | Link aggregation for parallel links |
| 02.3ae | 2003 | 10 Gigabit Ethernet over fiber |
| a href="/encyclopedia/802.3af" title="802.3af">802.3af | 2003 | Power over Ethernet |
| 02.3ah | 2004 | Ethernet in the First Mile |
| 02.3ak | 2004 | 10GBASE-CX4 10 Gigabit Ethernet over twin-axial cable |
| 02.3an | in work | 10GBASE-T 10 Gigabit Ethernet over twisted pair |
| 02.3ap | in work | Backplane Ethernet (1 and 10 Gb/sec over printed circuit boards) |
| 02.3aq | in work | 10GBASE-LRM 10 Gigabit Ethernet over multimode fiber |
| 02.3ar | in work | Congestion management |
| 02.3as | in work | Frame expansion |