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FDDI: Current Issues and Future Plans

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Key issues in upcoming FDDI standards including low-cost fiber, twisted-pair, SONET mapping, and FDDI follow-on LAN are discussed after a brief introduction to FDDI and FDDI-II.

Adapted with permission from FDDI Handbook: Guide to High Speed Networking Using Fiber and Other Media by Raj Jain, to be published by Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.

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  1. Digital Equipment Corporation, 550 King St. (LKG 1-2/A19), Littleton, MA, 01460-1289, USA

    Raj Jain

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  1. Telecommunications Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Bijan Jabbari

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Jain, R. (1994). FDDI: Current Issues and Future Plans. In: Jabbari, B. (eds) Worldwide Advances in Communication Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1355-5_17

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