Cambridge Ring

The Cambridge Ring was an experimental token-passing local area network architecture developed at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory in the mid-late 1970s and early 1980s. It used a ring topology with a theoretical limit of 255 nodes (though such a large number would have badly affected perfomance), around which cycled a fixed number of packets. Free packets would be "loaded" with data by a machine wishing to send, marked as received by the destination machine, and "unloaded" on return to the sender. The network ran over twin twisted-pair cabling (plus a fibre-optic section).

Related Topics:
Token-passing - Local area network - Cambridge University Computer Laboratory - 1970s - 1980s

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The Cambridge Ring gave its name graduate society of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, launched in 2002, which is called the Cambridge Computer Lab Ring.

Related Topics:
Cambridge University Computer Laboratory - Cambridge Computer Lab Ring

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