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OVERVIEW

 

Local Area Networks (LANS) widely used in institutions, companies and homes. As you have seen there are many technologies available for the various LAN topologies. Table 1 provides a useful summary of the characteristics of the technologies covered on the previous pages of this website.

 

Table 1 

 

 

 

Networking Technology

 

Cable Type

 

Access

 

Topology

ETHERNET

 

Twisted pair/Coaxial cable

CSMA/CD

Linear Bus

TOKEN RING

 

STP/UTP

Token Ring

Ring

WIRELESS LAN

 

No Cables Used

802.11

-

ARCnet

 

93-ohm coax cable/twisted pair

802.4

Star-Bus

FDDI

 

Fibre-optic

Token Passing

Dual Ring