Ethernet Competition
Today, Ethernet has no significant competition as a wired LAN technology. When a network engineer builds a wired LAN, the technology choices revolve around which Ethernet products to use and the related Ethernet standards, supported cabling, maximum distances, and so on. The challenge is in choosing between competing Ethernet-based options.
However, Ethernet took a three-decade journey before becoming the wired LAN technology of choice, as shown in Figure 6-14. From the point at which the IEEE took over the standardization process for Ethernet in 1980, the IEEE also began standardizing Token Bus and Token Ring, which had its origins in IBM, the dominant computer company at the time. Also, PCs were not commonly used inside ...
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