Understanding Token Ring Protocols and Standards (Artech House Telecommunications Library) - Hardcover

Explaining the rationale and critical decisions behind the standards' development, this text describes cabling examples for token ring, the enhancement in point-to-point distance provided by Dedicated Token Ring and how the standard's consensus process was used to solve the jitter accumulation interoperability issue. The Token Ring architecture and configurations are detailed and used to explain the migration between Classic Token Ring and Dedicated Token Ring. The book presents a history of Token Ring and its clocking scheme, PHY theory and state tables. It also explains how to optimize future developments in token ring networking; the methodology for standards development; physical layer design; network management; fault isolation; and more.

James T. Carlo currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Committee and is a former Chair of the IEEE 802.5 Token Ring Working Group. He is also a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments. Robert D. Love is the current Chair of the IEEE 802.5 Token Ring Working Group and is a Senior Engineer at IBM. Michael Siegel is a Senior Engineer and Kenneth T. Wilson is a Senior Programmer at IBM. The authors were all actively involved in the technical development of the Token Ring Standard as well as Token Ring Products.