- Cambridge Ring
The Cambridge Ring was an experimental
local area network architecture developed at theCambridge University Computer Laboratory in the mid-late 1970s and early 1980s. It used a ring topology with a theoretical limit of 255 nodes (though such a large number would have badly affected performance), around which cycled a fixed number of packets. Free packets would be "loaded" with data by a machine wishing to send, marked as received by the destination machine, and "unloaded" on return to the sender; thus in principle there could be as many simultaneous senders as packets. The network ran over twin twisted-pair cabling (plus a fibre-optic section).In 2002 the
Cambridge University Computer Laboratory launched a graduate society called theCambridge Computer Lab Ring named after the Cambridge Ring.External links
* [http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/earlyatm/cr82/ Cambridge Ring Hardware]
* [http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/earlyatm/earlyatm.html Cambridge Fast Ring]
* [http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/earlyatm/backbone-ring/index.html Cambridge Backbone Ring Hardware]
* [http://www.camring.ucam.org Cambridge Computer Lab Ring]ee also
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Token ring
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