G T Smith wrote:
At that time with a 4/16Mb bandwidth range, dual ring tolerance (you had to chop the cable twice to break the ring) and a very stable loading characteristic, it was a faster and more reliable option than ethernet at a max of 10Mbs. Token Ring networks only tended to slow down when all tokens were in use, whereas for ethernet because of contention issues the only time you are likely to use the full bandwidth was if you have only two machines on the line working in duplex. One or two machines can flatten a whole segment, something that impossible with token ring.
Variants of the technology are still in use high speed backbones.
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