AlohaNet let any computer on the network transmit data at any time.

BBC: Original Ethernet diagram, 3Com

Customers can make phone calls, send faxes, access the Internet, transfer images, transmit videos and log on remotely to a local area network.

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The network will be the province of university and government researchers who access and transmit data-intensive files on the increasingly clogged, increasingly slower Internet.

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