... to coexist with existing LAN technologies. Network designers are collapsing their router backbones with ATM switches, which offer the greater backbone bandwidth required by high-throughput data services. Technologies for Building Switched LAN Internetworks With the advent of such technologies as Layer 3 switching, LAN switching, and VLANs, building campus LANs is becoming more complex than in the past. Today, the following three technologies are required to build successful campus networks: * LAN switching technologies o Ethernet switching-Provides Layer 2 switching and offers broadcast domain segmentation using VLANs. This is the base fabric of the network. o Token Ring switching-Offers the same functionality as Ethernet switching but uses Token Ring technology. You can use a Token Ring switch as either a transparent bridge or source-route bridge. o Copper Data Distributed Interface (CDDI)-Provides a single-attachment station (SAS) or dual-attachment station (DAS) to two Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP), 100 Mbps RJ-45 connectors. o Fiber Distributed ...

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