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Figure 6-1 The Local Area Network Technology Architecture

Figure 6-2 Implications of LAN Technology Choices

Figure 6-3 Switched LAN Architectures vs Media-Sharing LAN Architectures WIring Center Functionality

Figure 6-4 Building a Bandwidth Hierarchy with a Switched LAN Architecture

Figure 6-5 Implementation Scenarios for Switched LAN Architectures

Figure 6-6 Network Interface Card Technology Analysis Grid

Figure 6-7 Network Interface Cards Data Transfer Methods

Figure 6-9 Ethernet Media Interfaces

Figure 6-12 Network Device Interface Specification (NDIS) Architecture

Figure 6-13 Open Data-Link Interface (ODI) Architecture

Figure 6-14 Major Categories of Hubs

Figure 6-15 Wiring Center Functional Comparison

Figure 6-16 Standards-Based Network Management Communications Protocols

Figure 6-20 ATM Implementation

Figure 6-21 ASCII Table

Figure 6-22 EBCDIC Table

Figure 6-23 Humanly Readable, ASCII, and EBCDIC Coding

Figure 6-24 Manchester Encoding vs. Differntial Manchester Encoding