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Hubnet

(networking)

A 50 Mb/s optical fibre network developed at Toronto University. Network topology is a rooted tree with a maximum of 65536 hosts with maximum separation of 2 km. The protocol is multiple access, collision avoidance, echo detect and retry.

[Computer Systems Equipment Design, Jan 85].

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"There were people who wanted better access but couldn't afford FDDI, so we came up with the Hubnet, a collection of Ethernet hubs that go out to divisional routers.

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