Title :
LAN/MAN interworking in the 802.6/SMDS environment
Author_Institution :
US West Adv. Technol., Englewood, CO, USA
Abstract :
The tremendous growth of local area networks (LANs) is creating a demand to interconnect them over distance. Metropolitan area networks (MANs) provide an optimal platform for interconnecting LANs, since they combine high performance with LAN-like sharing of bandwidth over a large geographic area. A description is given of the primary issues, needs, and architectural approaches to LAN/MAN interconnection. Regarding LANs, the focus is on IEEE 802 LAN architectures, since they are by far the most common and have become part of the open systems interconnection (OSI) standard suite. Regarding MANs, the focus is on the IEEE 802.6/SMDS (switched multimegabit data service) MAN architecture
Keywords :
local area networks; 802.6/SMDS environment; IEEE 802 LAN architectures; IEEE 802.6; LAN/MAN interworking; local area networks; metropolitan area networks; open systems interconnection; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Data communication; Ethernet networks; High performance computing; Integrated circuit interconnections; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Open systems; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1990. Conference Proceedings., Ninth Annual International Phoenix Conference on
Conference_Location :
Scottsdale, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2030-7
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.1990.101680
