FDDI: meeting the interoperability challenge

Author

Benson, Dave ; Ciarfella, Paul ; Hayden, Peter

Author_Institution

Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

30 Sep-3 Oct 1990

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

260

Abstract

The advent of the fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) standard promises a multivendor 100-Mb/s LAN solution. Comprehensive interoperability testing among the vendors both reinforces the normal interpretations of the standard and performs the most immediate goal-that of verifying the correctness of implementations. FDDI multivendor interoperability history and current status are discussed. The testing performed has discovered and helped fix problems in many vendor´s implementations. Many problems discovered were the result of inconsistent interpretations of the station management (SMT) drafts. Other problems were due to incomplete implementations which did not support some functions defined in the SMT draft. Still other problems were a result of changes in the SMT draft which were overlooked by some implementations

Keywords

optical links; standards; token networks; 100 Mbit/s; FDDI multivendor interoperability; FDDI standard; fiber distributed data interface; interoperability testing; multivendor LAN; station management; Connectors; Distributed algorithms; Ethernet networks; FDDI; History; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber testing; Physical layer; Protocols; Surface-mount technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1990. Proceedings., 15th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2109-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1990.128667

Filename

128667