Computer networks
FDDI handbook: high-speed networking using fiber and other media
FDDI handbook: high-speed networking using fiber and other media
High speed networks
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technical overview (2nd ed.)
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technical overview (2nd ed.)
Computer networks: a systems approach
Computer networks: a systems approach
Local and metropolitan area networks (5th ed.)
Local and metropolitan area networks (5th ed.)
Data and computer communications (5th ed.)
Data and computer communications (5th ed.)
Ethernet: distributed packet switching for local computer networks
Communications of the ACM
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Stemming from some early experiments in the late 1960s, development of the first generation local area network, or LAN, took place during the 1970s. The goal was an inexpensive network suitable for use in a classroom, laboratory, suite of offices, or, perhaps, an entire building, to enable personal computers to share more expensive peripherals such as printers and large disk drives. Standardization in the early 1980s was followed by worldwide deployment of 10 Mb/sec LANs. By the end of the decade, desktop computer systems interconnected throughout an institutional building or site had become common, producing a local site scaling problem with traffic and numbers of connected systems.