LAN Switching first-step

Network Standards

If the different network standards in place today were in print, they would fill volumes upon volumes of text. These network standards serve specific purposes, as defined by the standard itself. For example, there is a standard for you to communicate across the Internet and a different standard for you to talk across the telephone network.

Standards dictate almost everything that surrounds us during the course of a day. The television signal of your TV follows a standard, as does the lid on your “to-go” coffee cup. Some standards, such as the television signal, are regulated by an administering body such as the National Television System Committee (NTSC) or the new High-Definition Television (HDTV) standard developed in part ...