A comparison of high speed LANs

Author

Cronin, William J. ; Hutchison, Jerry D. ; Ramakrishnan, K.K. ; Yang, Henry

Author_Institution

Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

1994

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

49

Abstract

Ethernet at 10 Mb/s and other legacy LANs such as 4 and 16 Mb/s Token Ring have matured and proliferated widely over the last decade. Now, applications have started to exceed the capabilities of these low speed LANs. A new generation of high speed networks are being deployed to meet with increasing expectations of users. This paper compares four such high speed LANs which operate at or above 100 Mb/s: 100BASE-T, 100VG-AnyLAN, FDDI and ATM. The attributes and performance of these four LANs are described and contrasted. The implications of migration to these new technologies are discussed

Keywords

FDDI; access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; local area networks; performance evaluation; 100 Mbit/s; 100BASE-T; 100VG-AnyLAN; ATM; Ethernet; FDDI; MAC protocols; Token Ring; high speed LAN; high speed networks; protocols; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Packet switching; Switches; Token networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1994. Proceedings., 19th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6680-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1994.386617

Filename

386617