FDDI: current issues and future plans

Author

Jain, Raj

Author_Institution

Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA, USA

Volume

31

Issue

9

fYear

1993

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

105

Abstract

Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), a set of standards developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X3T9.5 Task Group, is reviewed. The timed token access method, used to share the medium among stations in this 100-Mbit/s local area network (LAN), differs from the traditional token access method in that the time for the token to walk around the ring is accurately measured by each station and used to determine the usability of the token. FDDI-II, which provides support for isochronous service in addition to the asynchronous and synchronous service provided by FDDI, the media-dependent physical layer (PMD) standard called low-cost fiber PMD (LCF-PMD), and the implementation of FDDI on the synchronous optical network (SONET) are discussed.<>

Keywords

FDDI; SONET; local area networks; telecommunication standards; token networks; 100 Mbit/s; ANSI; American National Standards Institute; FDDI; FDDI-II; Fiber Distributed Data Interface; LAN; LCF-PMD; asynchronous service; isochronous service; local area network; low-cost fiber PMD; media-dependent physical layer; standards; synchronous optical network; synchronous service; timed token access method; ANSI standards; Area measurement; FDDI; Local area networks; Optical fiber LAN; Physical layer; SONET; Standards development; Time measurement; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.236276

Filename

236276