Ethernet and the Cambridge Ring
David Hutchison · ITNOW · 1983
Abstract The term ‘Local Area Network’ first began to appear in published material about ten years ago. At the time, there was some interest in interconnecting computers which happened to share the same laboratory or building, basically so that information could be passed between the computers and their users. Work began to multiply on various interconnection strategies for these localised types of network. Several different topologies were studied and experimented with, including stars, buses and loops. Two of the best known examples of lans are now the Ethernet and the Cambridge Ring. Together they embody most of the important principles and practices, in the uk at least, which apply to this general class of network.