• 4 and 16 Mbps using twisted-pair cabling with
differential Manchester line encoding.
• Maximum number of stations is 250.
• Waits for last byte of frame to arrive before
reinserting token on ring {new token after
received}
.
• 8 priority levels provided via two 3-bit fields
(priority and reservation) in data and token frames.
• Permits 16-bit and 48-bit addresses (same as
802.3).