Description: Experts agree that Fiber Distributed Interface (FDDI) is probably the most powerful, innovative, complex and sophisticated of all LAN technologies to date. Written for network managers, developers, and users, this important work provides a thorough understanding of FDDI technology, its applications and FDDI systems and network design considerations. FDDI provides a tutorial overview of the FDDI-I and FDDI-II technologies and their components, architectural models, and their explicit network management capabilities. It clearly identifies network design issues such as network cabling, physical plant layout, and techniques for improving FDDI ring throughput and lowering station access delay. Readers are provided with a spectrum of applications for FDDI which include environments such as office automation at the desktop, back-end computer room and across campus and metropolitan areas. For system designers and integrators, this book provides development and systems design issues in FDDI network components and the FDDI protocol. It provides examples of FDDI network components - including adapters and wiring concentrators. The book covers such important FDDI network protocol issues as connectionless protocols over FDDI, FDDI performance tuning, system conformance testing, and interoperability. FDDI clearly identifies real-world considerations in planning, migrating, and building FDDI networks for interconnecting LANs and high-performance file servers.

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