Conforming to the IEEE 802.5 standard, the Token Ring access method connects up to 255 nodes in a star topology at 4, 16 or 100 Mbps. All stations connect to a central wiring hub called the ...

So in a non-switched environment, Token Ring had some technical advantages over Ethernet. Token Ring did help to institute Star topology. Being a bus, Ethernet was conventionally deployed at the ...

He added that the Token Ring market represents around $2bn (#1.3bn) in sales every year, and that 20 per cent of the corporate market still uses the topology - and is demanding new standards to ...