Ethernet or Token Ring

Ethernet or Token Ring

• Saguaro Federal has mainframes for all of its banks and businesses. Must the company use the Ethernet or Token Ring protocol? Explain your choice. Why is this choice appropriate?

For this particular scenario, I would go with Token Ring Network. The reason I am choosing this method is because token ring is an old standard that really isn’t in popular use any longer, except for use with mainframes. This method would still work best with mainframes because when it was initially created it was done so for mainly mainframes. Token Ring uses a tokening method to go to each workstation (or in this case mainframes) that are typically arranged in a ring or at least all connected together. The way this method works is that one mainframe sends out information (or a token) and it goes down the ‘ring’ either being rejected or accepted and once the receiving system accepts it, it sends out an acknowledgement token back into the ring and again it either gets rejected or accepted until it reaches the destination system.

This method is especially useful for banks because it comes with a built-in recovery and management system to ensure that no system gives way to faults or problems and although it may not seem like it, this system is remarkably fast, even for it having to go or be passed by each system before reaching the destination.

• XYZ Technology Consultants has offices on the second, third, and fourth floors of the office building it occupies. Must the company use the Ethernet or Token Ring protocol? Explain your choice. Why is this choice appropriate?

For this scenario, I would go with Ethernet. The reason I am choosing this method is because this particular situation is dealing with different offices on multiple floors, which means any number of users on each floor, using either laptops or computers. Not only because this will be spread out over multiple floors and hence would go better with using routers/switches to connect each...