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Chapter 6: Token Ring
IBM first proposed Token Ring in 1969. At the time, Ethernet was limited to 10 Mbps. Token Ring was capable of supporting 16 Mbps, which helped its popularity. Today, this is no longer an attraction ...
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Token Ring
An earlier local area network (LAN) access method developed by IBM. Conforming to the IEEE 802.5 standard, the Token Ring access method connects up to 255 nodes in a star topology at 4 ...
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Common Signaling Schemes
In the early nineties, there were several competing Signaling Schemes for how to put data packets onto cabling or fiber. The most common were Ethernet, Token Ring, ARCNet, and LocalTalk. Late comers ...
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Chapter 9: Token Ring
A token ring network is a local area network technology based on a token-passing protocol for media access control. (See Chapter 5 for more information about token passing protocol concepts.) Data ...