This part of ISO/IEC 9314 specifies the requirements for the Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI); token ring low-cost fibre physical layer medium dependent (LCF-PMD).
FDDI provides a high-bandwidth (100 Mbit/s), general-purpose interconnection among computers and peripheral equipment using fibre optics as the primary transmission medium. FDDI can be configured to support a sustained data transfer rate of at least 80 Mbit/s (10 Mbyte/s). FDDI provides connectivity for many nodes distributed over distances of several kilometers in extent. Default values for FDDI are calculated on the basis of 1 000 physical links and a total fibre path length of 200 km (typically corresponding to 500 nodes and 100 km of dual fibre cable).
FDDI consists of:
The original PMD standard (ISO/IEC 9314-3), called PMD, defines attachment to multimode fibre up to 2 km, while this LCF-PMD, optically interoperable with the original PMD, defines low-cost attachments to multi-mode fibre up to 500 m. Additional PMD sublayer standards are for attachment to single mode fibre (SMF-PMD), and twisted-pair up to 100 m (TP-PMD);
FDDI LCF-PMD is a supporting document to FDDI PHY and FDDI PHY-2 which should be read in conjunction with it. The FDDI SMT document should be read for information pertaining to supported FDDI node and network configurations. The original FDDI PMD should be read for issues relating to FDDI LCF-PMD to FDDI PMD optical interoperability.
ISO/IEC 9314 specifies the interfaces, functions, and operations necessary to ensure interoperability between conforming FDDI implementations. This standard provides a functional description. Conforming implementations may employ any design technique that does not violate interoperability.
SDO | ISO: International Organization for Standardization |
Document Number | ISO/IEC 9314 |
Publication Date | Not Available |
Language | en - English |
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Committee | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 |