THE BEECHMONT CREST NETWORKING GUIDE:
ONLINE GUIDE TO NETWORKING / NETWORK + EXAM OBJECTIVES
Part I: Introduction to Networking
FDDI
(Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
-Developed by the American National Standards Institute in the mid-1980s
-Built to accommodate a growing need for fast networking to use with distributed applications.
-Uses a ring network design with a dual ring for fault tolerance.
-Dual ring design gives FDDI redundancy. Therefore, the network does not go down if there is a single cable failure (as in the case of the 802.5 standard.)
