About token ring/ATM

[nobita_87]

Actually what is token ring, and what does the term ATM stand for? And what is gigabyte ethernet too? I read out for wikipedia but i still kinda confuse of the explanation. Why nowsaday pple migrate from token ring/ATM to gigabyte ethernet?

[Hack]

A token ring network is one in which requests are passed from the user machine to the network as a token and the network routes the token to the specific network machine that has been setup to handle the request. The request (token) is received, processed, and the token in then put back on the network to handle the next request. All of this happens in nanoseconds but you can see how inefficient this might be.