Traditional Campus Networks started to occur in the early 90s. At the beginning they were just simple LAN networks and spread quite quickly until they need to be divided into smaller parts to work properly.

In this time such networks were rather slow and the response time was not the great importance in case of proper operating of these structures. Concerning the technology you may notice why keeping such networks in a good working condition was a hard task.

Other problem was the network while more and more users were connected to one network what caused that such structure was very slow and unstable. Some problems had been solved by using bandwidth what increased the speed limit during data transmission. However in typical campus networks we could find typical problems concerning collisions, transmission or broadcast.

First of all one of the main obstacle in a typical campus network was collision. This could happened when campus network became one big clash domain then other devices may clashed with each other. An example of such situation is when a host need to broadcast what had an impact on other devices – they had to listen the host even if they tried to do other works like transmitting.

At the beginning of the 80s and 90s administrators used bridges to counteract collisions what partly solved that problem. Bridges had also other advantage – they helped with an obstacle regarding limitation of the distance. In next years bridges were replaced by routers when the prices of such devices started to fall and they become more popular among users.