Evaluation of Different Local Area Networks
As companies and organizations rely on applications such as electronic mail and database management for core business operations, computer networks have become increasingly important and in the past decades the spread of networks has vastly prevailed. ... Local Area Networks (LANs), as the name implies, are networks confined to a geographic area, such as a single building or a college campus (Pellinen, 1998, Internet). ... The flourishing development of networks has resulted in several different LAN technologies emerging and forming a new phase. ... Currently, there are three kinds of standardized local area network technologies used widely in different situations, which are Ethernet/IEEE 802. ... It is still IBMs primary LAN technology and is thus used in many large organization networks. ... 5 networks although the specifications differ in some minor ways. ... 5 does not specify a media type, although IBM Token Ring networks use twisted-pair wire) and routing information field size.