An earlier local area network (LAN) access method developed by IBM. Conforming to the IEEE 802.5 standard, the Token Ring access method connects up to 255 nodes in a star topology at 4 ...
A token ring LAN is implemented either as a logical ring using a physical ring topology (see Figure 9-1), or as a logical ring structure arranged in a physical star configuration (see Figure 9-2). It ...
Token Ring did help to institute Star topology. Being a bus, Ethernet was conventionally ... over the Internet by the Public Telephone Network (via AT&T, Sprint & MCI). In LAN settings, however, ATM's ...