Editing ARCNET (section)

=== ARCnet Plus and decline ===
In response to greater bandwidth needs, and the challenge of Ethernet, a new standard called ARCnet Plus was developed by Datapoint and introduced in 1992. ARCnet Plus ran at {{nowrap|20 Mbit/s}} and was backward-compatible with original ARCnet equipment. However, by the time ARCnet Plus products were ready for the market, Ethernet had captured the majority of the network market and there was little incentive for users to move back to ARCnet. As a result, very few ARCnet Plus products were ever produced. Those that were built, mainly by Datapoint, were expensive and hard to find.

ARCNET was eventually standardized as [[American National Standards Institute|ANSI]] ARCNET 878.1. It appears this was when the name changed from ARCnet to ARCNET. Other companies entered the market, notably Standard Microsystems who produced systems based on a single [[Very-large-scale integration|VLSI]] chip, originally developed as custom LSI for Datapoint, but later made available by Standard Microsystems to other customers. Datapoint eventually found itself in financial trouble and moved into video conferencing then and later to custom programming in the embedded market.

Even though ARCNET is now rarely used for new general networks, the diminishing installed base still requires support and it retains a niche in industrial control.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ARC Control |url=https://www.ccontrols.com/arccontrol/index.htm |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=www.ccontrols.com}}</ref>