IEEE 802.12 is a group of IEEE standards in the 802 group. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ... IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards about local area networks and metropolitan area networks. ...

802.12 covers a variety of 100 Mbit/s plus technologies, including 100BaseVG-AnyLAN. 100BaseVG is a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet standard specified to run over four pairs of category 3 UTP wires (known as voice grade, hence the VG). It is also called 100VG-AnyLAN because it was defined to carry both Ethernet and token ring frame types. ...