Title :
Design trade-offs on FDDI concentrators
Author :
Salamat, Mehdi ; Yip, Michael
Author_Institution :
Nat. Semicond. Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
The fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) is becoming the standard in high speed data communication. The FDDI concentrator plays an important role in popularizing the FDDI standard as a high speed network. FDDI concentrators can be categorized as workgroup size concentrators and large modular type concentrators used in backbone networks. This paper explains the components inside FDDI concentrators and the differences between workgroup concentrators and modular concentrators
Keywords :
line concentrators; optical links; standards; token networks; FDDI concentrators; fiber distributed data interface; high speed data communication; high speed network; standard; Computer architecture; FDDI; Joining processes; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Optical filters; Physical layer; Spine; Wiring; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 1991. Proceedings., 16th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2370-5
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.1991.208084
