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Shining a Light on FDDI
FDDI—the 100-Mbit/s Fiber Distributed Data Interface networking
technology—is the solution for many of the new problems presented by
changing corporate networks:
Groups that previously had no need for communication now want
network connections.
Existing token ring and Ethernet backbones that are interconnected
are now reaching their capacity.
Applications require increasing bandwidth, security, and fault
tolerance.
These are examples of some of the network requirements that are met by
FDDI. At 100 Mbit/s, FDDI allows high-speed interconnection of all the LANs
in an organization’s network. FDDI easily overcomes the performance
limitations of 10-Mbit/s Ethernet and 16-Mbit/s token ring networks. In
addition, FDDI provides the security of fiber-optic cabling as well as the fault
tolerance that is built into the network design. As a result, FDDI is becoming
widely accepted, especially as a network backbone technology.
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