Fiber Distributed Data Interface (Fddi) : Adnan Masood Ece Dept Email: Am98@Drexel - Edu
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (Fddi) : Adnan Masood Ece Dept Email: Am98@Drexel - Edu
INTRODUCTION
SHARED MEDIA NETWORK LIKE ETHERNET (IEEE 802.3) & IBM TOKEN RING (IEEE 802.5)
FDDI BENEFITS
HIGH BANDWIDTH (10 TIMES MORE THAN ETHERNET) LARGER DISTANCES BETWEEN FDDI NODES BECAUSE OF VERY LOW ATTENUATION ( 0.3 DB/KM) IN FIBERS IMPROVED SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO BECAUSE OF NO INTERFERENCE FROM EXTERNAL RADIO FREQUENCIES AND ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE BER TYPICAL OF FIBER-OPTIC SYSTEMS (10^-11) IS SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER THAN THAT IN COPPER (10^-5) AND MICROWAVE SYSTEMS (10^7) VERY DIFFICULT TO TAP SIGNALS FORM A FIBER CABLE
MARCH 6, 2003 FDDI 7
FDDI LIMITATIONS
HIGH COST OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS REQUIRED FOR TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION OF SIGNALS (ESPECIALLY FOR SINGLE MODE FIBER NETWORKS) MORE COMPLEX TO IMPLEMENT THAN EXISTING LOW SPEED LAN TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS IEEE 802.3 AND IEEE 802.5
MARCH 6, 2003
FDDI