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Overview of FDDI
• high-speed token-ring network that uses
2 kilometers
• used as high-speed backbone
General Features of FDDI
• Media: 1300nm, optical fibers
• Transmission Method: Base band
• Data Rate: 100Mbps
• Topology: physical ring of trees, logical ring
• Maximum distance between adjacent stations
• Total maximum ring length: 100 km
• Maximum number of attached stations: 500
nodes
History
•Developed under the auspices of the X3T9.5
committee of the ANSI
•In 1995, X3T9.5 became X3T12
•Very popular in networks that required 100
Mbps capability prior to 1996.
•Since 1996, 100 Mbps Ethernet/802.3 and
1000 Mbps
•Ethernet/802.3 technologies have displaced
new FDDI installations
•Introduction of other faster network
technologies have caused a halt to
any development efforts on FDDI