High Speed LANs

Reporters:
Garciano, Rochelle
Salas, Rebecca Ruth R.
Specifc Objective: To defne and discuss the concepts of Ethernet, Token
Ring and the Fiber Optics Channel
Topics:
a. The emergence and importance of High-Speed LANs
b. thernet
c. To!en Ring
d. "iber #hannel
thernet $ a t%pe of LAN that has a logical bus structure using #S&A'#() the
ph%sical structure can either be a bus or a star.
Star $ indi*idual terminals, microcomputers, or +or!stations are connected directl%
to a central computer.
,us $ each terminal connects to the same line, +hich can be t+isted pair +iring,
coa-ial cable, or e*en optical .ber. The +iring can be considerabl%
simpler than the star topolog%.
THRNT
Speed: /0 &b's to /00 &b's) no+ / Gb's
1riginated b% 2ero-
3ses a special 4thic! thernet5 60 ohms coa-ial cable in a bus con.guration
Thic! thernet
Thin thernet
7elocit% "actor: 0.88 9t%pical coa-ial cable:
+here
THRNT ;<R<NG
#oa-ial #able
T+isted-pair #able
T+ina- #able
"iber 1ptics
thernet Hubs and S+itches