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To: Jim Henke who wrote (4175)	6/4/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: Jim Henke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4453

I've got to wonder about the wisdom of developing a Token Ring version of a WBT. Certainly, NCD knows much more than me. I just hope they didn't put too many R&D $'s into it. Here's an article from 1997 tolly.com Of course, the reality is that token ring has lost the fight for global domination of networking to Ethernet and its turbocharged follow-ons, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet. That is a fact we must face, but it does not mean token ring is no longer viable. If blame needs to be placed for token ring's second-class status, it would have to be laid at the feet of the company that invented commercially viable token ring in the first place - IBM. Token-ring users have not seen an increase in basic transmission rates since 16M bit/sec was introduced in 1988.