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Centrenet–A High Performance Local Area Network

Ibbett et al., 1985

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Document ID
3351756257731008625
Author
Ibbett R
Edwards D
Hopkins T
Cadogan C
Train D
Publication year
Publication venue
The Computer Journal

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Centrenet is a high performance local area network designed to satisfy the requirements of both closely knit multi-computer systems and communities of users spread across large campus area. It uses high speed parallel switching nodes arranged in a tree-structured …
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