Station access to a Token Ring is deterministic; a station can transmit only when it receives a special frame called… Read More

The Token Ring network was originally developed by IBM in the 1970s. It is still IBM’s primary LAN technology and… Read More

 - Fast Ethernet - Fast EtherChannel® - Gigabit Ethernet - Gigabit EtherChannel We’ve mentioned that Ethernet also has high speed options that are… Read More

Ethernet is known as being a very reliable local area networking protocol. In this example, A is transmitting information and… Read More

This chart give you an idea of the range of Ethernet protocols including their data rate, maximum segment length, and… Read More

Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 Ethernet was initially developed by Xerox. They were later joined by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and… Read More

As it turns out, dividing IP addresses into classes A, B and C is not flexible enough. In particular, it… Read More

Most IP addresses today use IP version 4—we’ll talk about IP version 6 later. IPv4 addresses are 32 bits long… Read More

  - Application layer        - File Transfer Protocol (FTP)        - Remote Login (Telnet)        - E-mail (SMTP)    - Transport layer         - Transport Control Protocol (TCP)        - User Datagram Protocol… Read More

TCP/IP is shorthand for a suite of protocols that run on top of IP. IP is the Internet Protocol, and… Read More