Ethernet is ubiquitous, fast, and simple. You only need two diffpairs (four wires) to establish a 100Mbit link, the hardware is everywhere, you can do Ethernet over long distances easily, and tons of ...

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 ...