LANs: trends and future prospects

Bajenescu, T.I.
Electrotechnics, 1988. Conference Proceedings on Area Communication, EUROCON 88.,
8th European Conference on
Volume , Issue , 13-17 Jun 1988 Page(s):235 - 238
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/EURCON.1988.11147
Summary:The author discusses the characteristics and development of local area
networks (LANs). He briefly examines the OSI standards; the FDDI (fiber
distributed data interface) standard; the use of communication satellites and
teleports; the Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP); the optical disk;
obstacles to a network management standard; ISDN; and secure communication