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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802 Standards

.IEEE 802.1: Standards related to network management

IEEE 802.2: General standard for the data link layer in the OSI Reference Model. The IEEE divides this layer into two sublayers -- the logical link control (LLC) layer and the media access control (MAC) layer

IEEE 802.3: Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use CSMA/CD. This is the basis of the Ethernet standard

IEEE 802.4: Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use a token-passing mechanism (token bus networks)

 IEEE 802.5: Defines the MAC layer for token-ring networks

IEEE 802.6: Standard for Metropolitan Area Networks MANs