Inception
Each received Ethernet frame requires that the network hardware and software process it. If the frame size is increased, a certain large amount of data can be transferred with less effort, reducing CPU utilization (mostly due to interrupt reduction) and increasing throughput by reducing the number of frames needing to be processed and reducing the total overhead byte count of all the frames sent.
Jumbo frames gained initial prominence when Alteon WebSystems introduced them in their ACEnic Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Many other vendors also adopted the size; however, they did not become part of the official IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard.
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