Abstract :
The Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) a 100-Mb/s fiber-optic token ring is rapidly becoming the premier high-speed local area network (LAN) standard both in the United States and internationally. The design of FDDI represents a series of compromises and tradeoffs. The author examines the various goals, and shows how they influenced the designs choices. He also considers the critical design choices in the FDDI architecture, showing how they contributed to the various goals. The features considered here are structure, media access control, physical layer protocol, physical layer medium dependent, and station management
Keywords :
optical fibres; standards; token networks; 100 Mbits; Fiber Distributed Data Interface; fiber-optic token ring; local area network; media access control; physical layer medium dependent; physical layer protocol; standard; station management; structure; Costs; Embedded system; FDDI; Integrated circuit interconnections; Investments; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Optical fiber LAN; Token networks; Very large scale integration;
