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grade, hence the "VG"). It is also called 100VG-AnyLAN
ratified by the
ISO in 1995 and practically extinct by 1998.
100BaseVG started in the IEEE 802.3u committee as
FastEthernet. One faction wanted to keep
CSMA/CD in order to
problem limited the distances to one tenth that of
10baseT.
Another faction wanted to change to a polling architecture
from the hub (they called it "demand priority") in order to
maintain the 10baseT distances, and also to make it a
802.3 -- the Ethernet committee. If you guys want to make a
different protocol, form your own committee". The IEEE 802.12
committee was thus formed and standardized 100BaseVG. The
rest is history.
(1998-06-30)