Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Publication Title

Issues in Information Systems

Issue Number

3

First Page

639

Last Page

645

Disciplines

Business | Management Information Systems

Abstract

As a network technology, ethernet flourished in low-cost, low-end markets. Simple to make and with open standards, many companies created products. The resulting improvement in price, performance, and market acceptance resulted in ethernet replacing the more established and sophisticated token-ring technology that dominated early large corporate LANs. As ethernet gets faster, accelerating from the original 10 Mbps into Gigabit speeds, the technology is poised to challenge the dominant backbone and WAN standard, ATM. A discussion of new ethernet developments is formalized with a decision model used to define a market boundary with data illustrating why and where a technology may dominate.

Comments

Copyright © 2002 International Association for Computer Information Systems. Citation: Webb, G. K. (2002). Faster Ethernet and the ATM Market Boundary. Issues in Information Systems, 3, 639-645.

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