Reports & Publications

3Com NETBuilder II Local Token Ring Bridge Performance (InterLAB)

Sponsor: 3Com Corp. (HPE)
3Com NETBuilder II Local Token Ring Bridge Performance (InterLAB)

Abstract

The Tolly Group, under its former name InterLAB, ran a multi-vendor performance test of local Token Ring bridges. 

The 3Com NETBuilder II used token ring modules based on the Texas Instruments TMS380 token ring chip set. It achieved source-route bridging throughput of 15.91Mbps. 

The 3Com bridge supports a maximum frame size of 17,814 bytes.