Abstract
Communication technology now makes it possible to support high data transmission rates at relatively low cost. In particular, optical fiber can be used as the medium in local area networks with data rates in the range of 100 megabits per second. Unfortunately, local area network topologies and communication protocols that work well with lower speed media are not necessarily appropriate when the data transmission rate is scaled up by approximately an order of magnitude. Recognizing this fact, an ANSI sub-committee (ANSIX3T9) has been working for the past two years on a proposed standard for a token ring protocol tailored to a transmission medium with transmission rate in the 100 megabits per second range. The protocol is referred to as the FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Token Ring protocol. The proposal for the standard is now quite mature and nearly stable.
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