a. Ethernet
Ethernet is a networking technology developed in the early 1970s and governed by the IEEE 802.3 specification. Ethernet provides access to the networking using Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD). Ethernet remains the most popular type of networking technology in use today. The main advantage of Ethernet is that it is one of the cheapest network architectures to implement. Network interface cards, cabling, and hubs are fairly inexpensive when compared to the hardware required for other architectures such as token ring. A major disadvantage of Ethernet relates to collisions on the network. The more collisions, the slower the network will run, and excessive collisions can even bring down the network.
b. Token Ring
Token ring is a network architecture developed by IBM that is physically wired as a start but that uses token passing in a logical ring topology. Token Ring\'s advantages include reliability and ease of maintenance. It uses a......
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