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A project on IEEE 802.5 Token Ring Networks written and presented in HTML format by;

Brian Smyth

Introductions, Explanation of IEEE standards and OSI model, Comparisons with other 802.X standards, Links, Layout, Editing, animated gif construction & Web site design.

Kevin Tevnan

Explanations of Physical layer, Hardware, Cabling and diagrams, Topologies.

Michael O'Connell

Explanation of data link layer, MAC sublayer, Token passing, Ring Management and Maintenance, Error recovery.

Eamonn McNulty

Current status of token ring, New developments, Dedicated Token ring , Token ring switching, FDDI token ring LAN's, Bridges between token ring.

References;

Using HTML 4.0 third edition, Lois Patterson, QUE Corporation

Computer Networks third edition, Andrew S. Tannenbaum, Prentice Hall

IEEE web site at http://www.ieee.org/

Other websites listed in LINKS page.

The world wide web sites of the following companies;

Madge Networks, Cisco Networks, IBM Networks, Baynetworks,

3Com, Intel, Olicom, Anixter, ODS.

Brian Smyth	Introductions, Explanation of IEEE standards and OSI model, Comparisons with other 802.X standards, Links, Layout, Editing, animated gif construction & Web site design.
Kevin Tevnan	Explanations of Physical layer, Hardware, Cabling and diagrams, Topologies.
Michael O'Connell	Explanation of data link layer, MAC sublayer, Token passing, Ring Management and Maintenance, Error recovery.
Eamonn McNulty	Current status of token ring, New developments, Dedicated Token ring , Token ring switching, FDDI token ring LAN's, Bridges between token ring.