BT launched Ethernet Virtual Private LAN (EVLAN) service — one of the first services to be launched as part of BT’s 21CN initiative.
The new BT EVLAN service, which is initially available in London and will be rolled-out to other UK metro areas later this year, provides secure any-to-any Ethernet connectivity between multiple sites in a single metro area. BT is offering access speeds from 10, 100 and 1000 Mbps and an open IP environment that allows companies to manage their own IP layer if they choose. http://www.btplc.com
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You just read about Ethernet. Here is what it replaced:
ARCNET served 1977–1990. What ultimately replaced it?
ARCNET a token-passing bus/star LAN where a token circulated by station address (not physical position), giving predictable performance over coax at 2.5 Mbit/s. Its job passed to Ethernet — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
