Abstract :
Significant trends and events in data communications during the past year are highlighted. The first end-to-end public frame relay service was deployed. Legislation establishing an ultragigabit-per-second National Research and Education Network (NREN) was passed. A networking standard called Fiber Distributed Data Interchange II (FDDI-II), aimed at helping to bring about multimedia transmission, was proposed. Mergers, alliances, and joint ventures flourished, as data communications and telecommunications continued to merge
Keywords :
data communication systems; AD 1991; FDDI-II; Fiber Distributed Data Interchange II; NREN; National Research and Education Network; alliances; data communications; end-to-end public frame relay service; joint ventures; legislation; mergers; multimedia transmission; networking standard; B-ISDN; Bandwidth; Communications technology; Copper; Error analysis; Frame relay; Integrated circuit technology; Packet switching; Protocols; Telecommunication standards;
