History of Local Area Network (LAN)
As the world started to get more technologically advanced after the two devastating world wars which changed the power dynamics of the entire world, use of computers in United States of America, one of the few involved parties in the world war who didn’t register any great loss on their side as compared to the other powers grew. History of LAN In the 1960s, more and more universities and research labs had started to use computers as they realized it made their work easy and efficient.
As the demand and the need of computers grew, so did the demand of a centralized network where two or more computers can be connected together to make their work more convenient without the need to have a separate network for every single computer device. A Local Area Network (LAN) was needed to connect all the computers in universities and laboratories.
In the next decade, the work on developing LAN technologies started and a few people came up with very impressive plans including Cambridge Ring by the University of Cambridge and Ethernet by Xerox PARC.
The Cambridge Ring had the capacity of 255 nodes which may have caused inconvenience since technology in this field was as new as a newborn child and managing, controlling and directing so many devices would surely create disruption in the service. Its’ production started in 1974 and by the 1980s, it was one of the most used technologies in the Local Area Network.
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The Cambridge Ring used twisted pair cabling, which was also used in the later and more advanced versions of Ethernet.
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As the demand and the need of computers grew, so did the demand of a centralized network where two or more computers can be connected together to make their work more convenient without the need to have a separate network for every single computer device. A Local Area Network (LAN) was needed to connect all the computers in universities and laboratories.
In the next decade, the work on developing LAN technologies started and a few people came up with very impressive plans including Cambridge Ring by the University of Cambridge and Ethernet by Xerox PARC.
The Cambridge Ring had the capacity of 255 nodes which may have caused inconvenience since technology in this field was as new as a newborn child and managing, controlling and directing so many devices would surely create disruption in the service. Its’ production started in 1974 and by the 1980s, it was one of the most used technologies in the Local Area Network.
Also, read...
The Cambridge Ring used twisted pair cabling, which was also used in the later and more advanced versions of Ethernet.
Read more History of Local Area Network (LAN)
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