Monday, November 14, 2011

802.XX Standards

802.XX standards came into existence by IEEE. Various IEEE standards for the same are:-


Ø 802.1 is an internetworking standard for compatibility of different LANs and MANs across protocols.

Ø 802.2 Logical link control (LLC) is the upper sublayer of the data link layer which is non-architecture-specific, that is remains the same for all IEEE-defined LANs.

Ø Ethernet LAN (802.3),

Ø Token ring LAN (802.4),


Ø Token bus LAN (802.5).

Ø 802.6 is distributed queue dual bus (DQDB) designed to be used in MANs.

Interesting, isn't it ?