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Newer Technologies

100 Mbps Ethernet (100baseT)
so-called "Fast Ethernet".
 
Fibre Distributed Data Interface
FDDI operates at 100 Mbps. It has been the Big New Thing for more than a decade, but has never been widely adopted due to its complexity and fiendishly high cost. Dead technology now.
 
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
This is a system which allows integrated voice/video/data networks, currently at bit rates between 25Mbps and 625Mbps, with the most common version running at 155Mbps. Complex and expensive, but becoming very popular for "campus-wide" networks -- eg, La Trobe's microwave network is actually an ATM LAN.
 
Gigabit Ethernet
A variation which is compatible with 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet, but runs at 1000Mbps. Still very expensive (original version only ran over fibre, for example) but will become the dominant LAN technology this decade.

 
Lecture 14: Multiaccess Networks Copyright © 2005 P.Scott, La Trobe University Bendigo.
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