What if Ethernet failed?

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coondoggie

on Thursday October 04, 2012 @10:01AM

coondoggie writes "Token Ring? FDDI? What would the networking world look like if Ethernet hadn't won? "Standards, consistency, simplicity, scale and innovation would have suffered," says IDC analyst Rohit Mehra. "If there was no consistency, networking would be even more complex than it is today.""
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