A 2.5 megabit per second baseband, token-passing network designed by Datapoint Corporation that supports up to 255 nodes.
A relatively simple and inexpensive cabling architecture that has been used for many years. Because its performance is not generally as fast as other network architectures (its transmission rate is only 2.5 Mbps, or megabytes per second), it is typically used in smaller networks. ARCnet Plus is a newer version of ARCnet; its transmission rate is 20 Mbps. ARCnet can use either a star or a bus topology, but the star topology usually provides better performance.
A proprietary token-bus networking architecture developed by Datapoint Corporation in the mid-1970s. It is reliable and it supports coaxial, twisted pair and fiber optic cable-based implementations.
A network developed by DataPoint. Originally proprietary, by the late 1980s it was no longer proprietary and had about as large a market share as Ethernet among small businesses. It was almost as fast and was considerably cheaper at the time.
A popular local area network that uses token passing passing over a star topology of coaxial cable, twisted pair, or optical fiber.
A local-area network protocol used for computers and process control since the 1980s. Some Opto 22 controllers, such as the SNAP-LCM4 with an adapter card, can communicate over ARCNET networks.
The first local-area network technology, introduced by Datapoint in 1968.
It is a form of a token bus network architecture,w hich was developed by Datapoint Corporation. It uses a bus or star topology and can support up to 255 nodes.
An acronym for Attached Resource Computer Network, a token-passing bus architecture network developed by Datapoint Corporation. ARCNET, the first local area network technology, has a flexible architecture that allows both star and bus topology networks, or a combination that can be described as a distributed star with branches. ARCNET can use single twisted-pair, coax and duplex fiber optic cabling.
Attached Resource Computer Network. A 2.5M bps baseband, token-bus LAN in bus or star topologies developed by Datapoint Corp. in the late 1970s. Versions can support coax, twisted pair, or fiber cabling.
Attached Resource Computer Network, developed by Datapoint, was one of the first and most popular LAN. Transmits at 2.5Mbps using variation of Token Rings passing protocols.
Attached Resource Computer Network. 2.5-Mbps token-bus LAN developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Datapoint Corporation.
Stands for Attached Resource Computer network. ARCnet is one of the oldest, simplest, and least expensive types of local-area network. ARCnet was introduced by Datapoint Corporation in 1977. It uses a token-ring architecture, supports data rates of 2.5 Mbps, and connects up to 255 computers. A special advantage of ARCnet is that it permits various types of transmission media -- twisted-pair wire, coaxial cable, and fiber optic cable -- to be mixed on the same network.
Attached Resource Computer network A type of token-ring LAN that allows different types of cables (twisted pair, coaxial and fiber-optic) to be used on the same network. It was introduced by Datapoint Corporation in 1977 and supports data rates of 2.5 Mbps, on up to 255 computers.
Attached Resource Computer Network. A low speed 2.5Mbps developed by Datapoint.
Attached Resource Computer Network. Developed by Datapoint Corporation in 1977, designed as a baseband, token-passing, bus architecture, transmitting at up to 2.5 Mbps. A successor to the original ARCNET, ARCNET+ supports data transmission rates of 20 Mbps. ARCNET runs on coaxial, twisted-pair, and fiber-optic cable and supports up to 255 nodes. Contemporary Controls
ARCNET (also Camel Cased as ARCnet, an acronym from Attached Resource Computer NETwork) is a local area network (LAN) protocol, similar in purpose to Ethernet or Token Ring. ARCNET was the first widely available networking system for microcomputers and became popular in the 1980s for office automation tasks. It has since gained a following in the embedded systems market, where certain features of the protocol are especially useful.