You may wonder why Microchip decided to develop a controller that is only 10 BASE-T capable. To answer the question, the following points should be mentioned. First, target applications only need to send a few bytes and don’t require high bandwidth. Second, Embedded applications with Ethernet will typically be on a sub-network behind a router. This prevents degrading the performance of the rest of the network. Third, 10 BASE-T allows Microchip to provide remote connectivity to even cost constrained applications.