LANs: trends and future prospects
Titu I. Bǎjenescu · 8th European Conference on Electrotechnics, Conference Proceedings on Area Communication · 2003
The author discusses the characteristics and development of local area networks (LANs). He briefly examines the OSI standards; the FDDI (fiber distributed data interface) standard; the use of communication satellites and teleports; the Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP); the optical disk; obstacles to a network management standard; ISDN; and secure communication.>