100 Ethernet and Beyond
Introduction
Ethernet (802.3 standard for IEEE) is one of the early types of local area networks (LAN) as from 1980’s. Local area network covers a limited geographical space such as department within an organization, University or company. Apart from Ethernet, there was also the token ring that was employed by the IBM and the token bus that was used by the plant manufacturers. Token ring and token bus were also known as 802.5 and 802.4 standards respectively. Nevertheless, Ethernet has turned out to be the main well-liked type of local area network standard employed in Continue reading...