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2. Figure 6-1 The Local Area Network Technology Architecture

3. Figure 6-2 Implications of LAN Technology Choices

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

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

6. Figure 6-5 Implementation Scenarios for Switched LAN Architectures

7. Figure 6-6 Network Interface Card Technology Analysis Grid

8. Figure 6-7 Network Interface Cards Data Transfer Methods

9. Figure 6-9 Ethernet Media Interfaces

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

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

12. Figure 6-14 Major Categories of Hubs

13. Figure 6-15 Wiring Center Functional Comparison

14. Figure 6-16 Standards-Based Network Management Communications Protocols

15. Figure 6-20 ATM Implementation

16. Figure 6-21 ASCII Table

17. Figure 6-22 EBCDIC Table

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

19. Figure 6-24 Manchester Encoding vs. Differntial Manchester Encoding