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OCR: Figure 1. Token-ring use is on the rise. More companies are depending on token-ring for their intensive comput- ing, according to a study at CIMI Corp ., Other Voorhees, N.J. Large corporations are technologies investing heavily in token-ring for their 72% mission-critical applications and for Token-ring their "power" or "elite" users. (Roughly 28% speaking, elite users are those who bring the companies high returns, who have purchasing and decision-making power or who execute a high percent- age of mission-critical work ) Technologies used by all LANs Although token-ring nodes account for less than one third of all LAN nodes 54 percent of all mission-critical traffic performed on LANs is performed on token-ring networks. That rate is rising. Other Tom Nolle, president at CIMI Corp ., Token-ring technologies says research indicates NetWare's use 54% 46% in large corporations is growing 13 per- cent per year on token-ring networks, as opposed to 9 percent per year on Ethernet networks. Technologies used for mission-critical applications