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Ans) The 802 LANs (IEEE 802.3, 802.4,802.5) are all based on copper wires. For low speeds and shorter distances, this will do just fine, but for higher speeds and longer distances, LANs must be based on fiber optics. Fiber has high bandwidth, is thin and lightweight, is not affected by electromagnetic interference and has excellent security because it is nearly impossible to wiretap without detection.

FDDI consists of two counter rotating rings

Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a high performance fiber optic token ring LAN running at 100 Mbps over distances up to 200 km with up to 1000 stations connected. The FDDI cabling consists of two fiber rings, one transmitting clockwise and the other transmitting anti-clockwise. If either one breaks, the other can be used as backup. If both break at the same point, the two rings can be joined into a single ring approximately twice as long. Bytes >=8 Preamble 1 1 2 or 6 Destination Address 2 or 6 Source Address No limit 4 1 1

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Frame Control Ending delimiter Frame Status Start delimiter FDDI frame format To transmit data, a station must first capture the token, then it transmits a frame . One difference between the FDDI and 802.5 is that, in 802.5 a station may not generate a new token until its frame has gone all the way around and come back. In FDDI, with 1000 stations and 200 km of fiber, the amount of time wasted waiting for the frame to travel the ring could be substantial. For this reason, it was decide to allow a station to put a new token back onto the ring as soon as it has finished transmitting its frames. In a large ring, several frames might be on the ring at the same time. The Start delimiter and the End delimiter field mark the frame boundaries. The Frame control field tells what kind of frame this is( data or control etc) and the Frame Status field holds the acknowledgement byte.

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