The inter-frame gap is normally a small pause that is required during data transmission. The gap

is normally important in order to allow clock recovery of the receiver depending on the physical

layer protocol or the encoding that has been used. This gap is required by the Ethernet devices

which play a very vital role in allowing the devices to pause and prepare for another reception of

the next packet. According to the IEEE 802.3 specifications, it requires that before a station

attempts to transmit data via a wire, the station must wait until there is a silence of 9.6 micro

seconds heard (Respi?cio). There has been some argument by some scientists claiming that this

pause causes a loss in the bandwidth. This is not particularly true.