Standards in the industry

The future of Token Ring and Banyan Vines: Little --> None!

vs. Ethernet >> 10s of millions of units in 1997

Current and (important) emerging standards:

TCP/IP - especially IPv6
Frame relay
ADSL + IDSL fi VDSL
Mobile-IP, IPsec, ...

LANs, LANs, and more LANs - interconnected into internets/intranets/extranets/...