LAN Technology¶

Today, the various flavours of Ethernet and its wireless cousin WiFi are the predominant L1/L2 for networking, both in the LAN and the WAN.

This was not always the case. In earlier decades, there was a much larger variety of alternate networking techologies out there, including

• AppleTalk / LocalTalk
• DECnet
• FDDI
• Token_Ring
• Arcnet

Further pages within this topic¶

• Arcnet
• Ethernet
  • 3com Etherlink III
  • 3Com EtherLink XL
  • Ethernet AUI MAU
• FDDI
  • 3Com 3C796 FDDI
  • Compaq Netelligent 100 FDDI
  • DEC FDDI Controllers
• Token Ring
  • 3Com TokenLink Velocity
  • IBM PCI Token Ring Adapter
  • IBM Turbo 164 Token-Ring PC Card 2
  • Linux Token Ring
  • Madge Smart 164 PCI Ringnode Mk3