phoneboy2
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| Token ring was better before layer 2 switches
Token Ring was better in theory and was more popular for a time in the 90's with enterprises. I remember trying to decided whether to go Token Ring or Ethernet but Ethernet was much cheaper and more practical for small networks using hubs.
Then reasonably priced layer 2 switches came out which effectively eliminated all Ethernet short comings and Token Ring seemed to dissappear overnight. |
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Kfedka
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Spokane, WA | Dang! You guys are old school!  |
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03 | For sure! |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| Switching, cabling, switching, cabling....
One gets cheaper and forces improvements in the other. Then the cycle reverses.
So pass the sands of time....
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dave
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not in ohio | reply to Kfedka
Well, before Ethernet, we used to build networks from point-to-point links. The really fast machines used to have megabit-per-second twinax connections, though 56K was more common. |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
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said by phoneboy2 :
Token Ring was better in theory and was more popular for a time in the 90's with enterprises. My previous employer was in the fortune 10 and everything was Token Ring except for two corporate divisions, mine and one other. That was due to the fact that we were the only ones running DEC hardware at the time. It was a very tough internal struggle keeping TR out of the organization. It cost three times as much for a TR card versus an Ethernet card and when they started getting integrated onto the the motherboards of our PC's the price was nothing versus $300. We managed to get some traffic between our network and the corporate network using an IBM 8209 bridge. However, once corporate decided the future direction was going to be TCP/IP, I migrated my entire Ethernet network over to TCP/IP. Once corporate starting migrating the mainframes over, the Ethernet isolation disappeared. After I left the firm they eventually dumped the TR network and went 100mbit Ethernet everywhere.
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Time4aNAP
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Des Plaines, IL
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said by phoneboy2 :
Token Ring was better in theory... LOL... Reminds me of the die-hard Betamax or (pre-Intel) Macintosh zealots. They'd declare their product "better" by virtue of a single, arcane and marginal advantage, ignoring the competition's more practical advantages.
Seriously, if token ring hadn't been a product of Big Blue (who nobody got fired for buying), it would have been a non-starter. |
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Time4aNAP
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Des Plaines, IL
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said by dave  :Well, before Ethernet, we used to build networks from point-to-point links. The really fast machines used to have megabit-per-second twinax connections, though 56K was more common. I'm surprised at how many new EIA-422 networks are coming out. I have brand-new pro audio equipment that uses it! |
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