Abstract
This chapter discusses broadband networking. There are two key advances in broadband networks that have played an important role in recent LAN improvements, and that should greatly enhance the acceptance of LANs in industrial applications: (1) new approaches to the layout of network components and cable runs, and (2) the advent of sophisticated fully featured network status monitoring systems. Broadband coaxial LANs are tree-topology cable networks capable of simultaneously carrying many independent channels of information. Early industrial broadband designs often had cables running along just about every row of support columns in a factory, with a tap placed at each column. Networks tend to grow rapidly and become more difficult to manage. Expansion is more manageable when it involves simply upgrading existing equipment rather than completely replacing it or adding other vendors' equipment and trying to integrate the management of the various components. Changing requirements are a given in any network. Careful planning and integration of various components are two effective means of dealing with rapid growth.
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