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Foil 35 Fiber Distributed Data Interface (6)

From Introduction to Local Area Networks LANs Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
FDDI fault tolerance
  • Dual Ring: during failure the dual ring is automatically wrapped into a single ring
  • Optical bypass switch : provides continuous dual-ring operation if a device on the ring fails
  • Dual homing : critical devices can be connected to 2 cencentrators; one connection is active, the other is passive

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