Abstract
Large or long-haul networks, such as telegraph and telephone networks, have been in operation since the turn of the century. Such networks have well established design rules because their technology is older and more mature than that of the local area networks (LANs) of today. Many of the smaller networks such as military command posts and navy shipboard communications can be considered local area networks. Of these, many are little more than scaled-down versions of telephone facilities.
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Baker, D.G. (1987). Local Area Networks. In: Monomode Fiber-Optic Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7000-0_8
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