Nondirect competition is the variance between vendors whose products or services are not the same but that could gratify the consumer need
Lets take exampl of microsoft corporation
The indirect competitors are WHOLE FOODS and WAL-MART
Direct competitors sells the product or services that are same
the direct competitors are Apple, Google, HP, IBM
hope it helps
Given that,
Token is 64 bytes long
The average number of stations that the token must pass = 20
We need to calculate the transmission delay for token
Using formula of transmission delay

Put the value into the formula




We need to calculate the average wait to receive token on an idle network with 40 stations
Using formula of average wait

Put the value into the formula



Hence, The average wait to receive token on an idle network with 40 stations is 1.024 ms.
<span>The DFS replication engine uses a form of replication called </span>multiple master replication