When Ethernet was originally envisioned, it would use a common, shared medium (the ‘Ether’ part), with transmitting and collision resolution handled by the carrier sense multiple access with collision ...

Yes, token ring is gone, but it was never a flop. In retrospect, today’s Ethernet resembles more closely the token-ring IEEE 802.5 standard than it does its own original IEEE 802.3 standard. As ...

In 1980, when IEEE started Project 802 to standardize local area networks (LANs), Gary Robinson was part of the “DIX-group” that submitted the “Blue Book” carrier-sense multiple access with collision ...