Network Topologies
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LANsand WANs - Geographical coverage
LANs
A single geographical location, such as office building,
school, etc
Typically High speed and cheaper.
WANs
Spans more than one geographical location often connecting
separated LANs
Slower
Costly hardware, routers, dedicated leased lines and
complicated implementation procedures.
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Network Topologies
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Topology- Physical and logical network layout
Physical – actual layout of the computer cables and other
network devices
Logical – the way in which the network appears to the devices
that use it.
Common topologies:
Bus, ring, star, mesh and wireless
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Bus topology
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Usesa trunk or backbone to which all of the computers
on the network connect.
Systems connect to this backbone using T connectors or
taps.
Coaxial cablings ( 10Base-2, 10Base5) were popular
options years ago.
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Bus Topology
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Advantages Disadvantages
Cheapand easy to implement Network disruption when computers are
added or removed
Require less cable A break in the cable will prevent all
systems from accessing the network.
Does not use any specialized network
equipment.
Difficult to troubleshoot.
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Ring Topology
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Logicalring
Meaning that data travels in circular fashion from one
computer to another on the network.
Typically FDDI, SONET or Token Ring technology are
used to implement a ring network
Ring networks are most commonly wired in a star
configuration
Token Ring has multi-station access unit (MSAU),equivalent to
hub or switch. MSAU performs the token circulation internally.
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Ring Topology
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Advantages Disadvantages
Cablefaults are easily located, making
troubleshooting easier
Expansion to the network can cause
network disruption
Ring networks are moderately easy to
install
A single break in the cable can disrupt the
entire network.
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Star Topology
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Allcomputers/devices connect to a central device called
hub or switch.
Each device requires a single cable
point-to-point connection between the device and hub.
Most widely implemented
Hub is the single point of failure
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Star Topology
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Advantages Disadvantages
Easilyexpanded without disruption
to the network
Requires more cable
Cable failure affects only a single
user
A central connecting device allows
for a single point of failure
Easy to troubleshoot and isolate
problems
More difficult to implement
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Mesh Topology
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Eachcomputer connects to every other.
High level of redundancy.
Rarely used.
Wiring is very complicated
Cabling cost is high
Troubleshooting a failed cable is tricky
A variation hybrid mesh – create point to point connection
between specific network devices, often seen in WAN
implementation.
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Mesh Topology
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Advantages Disadvantages
Providesredundant paths between
devices
Requires more cable than the other
LAN topologies
The network can be expanded
without disruption to current uses
Complicated implementation
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Wireless networking
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Donot require physical cabling
Particularly useful for remote access for laptop users
Eliminate cable faults and cable breaks.
Signal interference and security issue.
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Wireless networking
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Advantages Disadvantages
Allowsfor wireless remote access Potential security issues associated with
wireless transmissions
Network can be expanded without
disruption to current users
Limited speed in comparison to other
network topologies
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Cabling and Connectors
General media considerations
Broadband versus baseband
Baseband transmissions use digital signaling and Time Division
Multiplexing (TDM)
Broadband transmissions use analog and Frequency Division
Multiplexing(FDM)
Dialog modes: Simplex, half duplex and full duplex
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Cabling and Connectors
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Media interference
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) and cross talk
Network media vary in their resistance to the effect of EMC.
UTP is susceptible and fiber is resistant
Attenuation
Resistance :Coaxial cable > UTP, STP > UTP, Fiber > all
Maximum distance
Repeaters
Attenuation-related problems require a network analyzer to detect
Bandwidth
Transmission capacity of a media
Data throughput is measured in bits per second(bps), Mbps, and Gbps
For today’s application-intensive networks, Old 10Mbps is not enough,
100Mbps is very common and 1000Mbps is used too.
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Network Media
Cable-basedmedia
Coaxial
Copper wire to conduct the signals electronically
Was the choice for LAN for many years.
Retiring
Twisted pair
Copper wire to conduct too
Most widely used
Fiber-optic
transmits the signals as light
Uses glass or plastic conductor and
High Cost. Restricted to where segment length and higher speeds
are needed.
Server room, backbone
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Twisted-pair cabling
Hasbeen around for a long time
Created for voice transmissions
Most widely used media for networking
Lighter
More flexible
Easier to install
Cheaper
Greater speeds
Two types:
Unshielded twisted pair (UTP)
Shielded twisted pair (STP)
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Twisted-pair cabling
UTPis more commonplace
STP
provides the extra shielding by using an insulating material
wrapped around the wire
Greater resistance to EMI and attenuation
More cost
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Five main categories
CategoryCable Types Application
1 UTP Analog voice
2 UTP Digital voice, 1Mbps data
3 UTP, STP 16Mbps data
4 UTP, STP 20Mbps data
5, 5e UTP, STP Data, 100Mbps, 1G
6, 6e UTP, STP Data, 1G, 10G
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RJ-45 connectors
RJ-45are used with twisted-pair cabling.
Resemble ordinary phone jacks (RJ-11)
Eight wires instead of four
Larger.
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Fiber-optic cable
Uselight transmissions
EMI, crosstalk and attenuation become no issue.
Well suited for data, video and voice transmissions
Most secure of all cable media
Installation and maintenance procedures require
skills
Cost of cable
Cost of retrofitting of existing network equipment
because incompatible with most electronic network
equipment
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Fiber-optic cable
Singlemode fiber:
A single direct bean of light, allowing for greater distances and increased
transfer speeds.
Multimode fiber:
Many beams of light travel through the cable
This strategy weakens the signal, reducing the length and speed the data
signal can travel.
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Fiber-optic connectors
MIC, StandardFDDI
connector
FC
LC
There are a variety of connectors and several ways of
Connecting these connectors, such bayonet, snap-lock,
and push-pull connectors. A couple here:
SC duplex
ST
SC
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Wireless media
Threetypes:
Radio wave
Infrared
Microwave
Speeds of wireless solutions don’t keep pace with
cable solutions
Installation and maintenance are far more
complicated and costly.
Some solutions require line-of-sight, such as infrared
and microwave.
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IEEE 802.3 standards
IEEE 802.3 standards defines a range of networking
systems that are bases on the original Ethernet
standard.
Standard Cable type Segment
Length
Connector Topology
10Base2 Thin Coaxial 185 meters BNC Physical bus
10Base5 Thick
Coaxial
500 meters Vampire
Taps
Physical bus
10BaseT Category
3,4,5 twisted
pair
100 meters RJ-45 Physical star
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Fast Ethernet IEEE802.3u
Standard Cable Type Segment
Length
Conn
ector
Topology
100BaseTx Category 5 UTP 100 meters RJ-45 Physical star
100BaseT4 Category 3,4,5 UTP 100 meters RJ-45 Physical star
100BaseF
X
Multimode/Single-mode
fiber-optic cable
412/Multimode
fiber-optic
10,000/single-
mode fiber-
optic
SC,S
T,MI
C
Physical star
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Color codes
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Pin Number Designations
Thereare pin number designations for each color in T568B
The pin designations are as follows:
Color Codes for T568B
Pin color pair name
--- ----- ---- ---------
1 wh/or 2 TxData +
2 or 2 TxData –
3 wh/grn 3 RecvData+
4 blu 1
5 wh/blu 1
6 grn 3 RecvData-
7 wh/brn 4
8 brn 4
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The pinoutsfor a crossover cable
Straight-through Crossover cable
Hubs
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The bottomof the networking food chain
Connect device and create larger networks
Small hubs 5-8 ports (workgroup hubs)
Some hubs have more ports, up to 32 normally
Direct data packets to all devices connected to the
hub - shared bandwidth
animation
Scalability, Collision, inefficient
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Bridges
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Divide largernetworks into smaller sections
Check MAC address, forward or block the data
Learning bridge builds list of MAC address by watching the
traffic on the network.
Two issues to consider:
Placement 80/20 rule
Bridging loops
IEEE 802.1d Spanning tree protocol
Types of bridges
Transparent bridge
Source route bridge
Translational bridge
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Bridges
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Source RouteBridge
Used in Token Ring networks.
The entire path (ring number and bridge
number) is embedded within Packet
Search frame
Route discovery frame
Translational bridge
Used to convert one networking data
format to another.
For example, from Token Ring to Ethernet
and vice versa.
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Switches
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Like hub,connectivity points of Ethernet network
Forward only to the port that connects to the
destination device
knows MAC address
Match the MAC address in the data it receives.
Fully switched network, a dedicated segment for each
device is connected to switch. Expensive.
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Switches
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Allow fullduplex Ethernet
Nodes only communicate with switch, never directly to
each other
Use twisted pair or fiber optic cabling, using separate
conductors for sending and receiving data.
collision pair is used to transmit data
It was half duplex before – one device can transmit at one given time,
double the capacity, 100Mbps become 200Mbps
Most LAN are mixed with hubs and switches.
Switch routing method
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Packet-basedswitches use one of the following method
to route packet.
Cut-through
Forward as soon as it received the destination MAC – first
14 bytes
Can cause propagation of error
Store-and-forward
Error checked before being forwarded
Errors are not propagated through network
Bad frames are discarded
Error checking takes time.
Considerably slower
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Switch Routing Method
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FragmentFree
Take the advantage of both.
Check errors by reading the first 64byte of packets where
collision most likely happens
Offer near cut-through switching performance
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Switch physical design
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LANswitches vary in their physical design
Shared-memory
Common buffer for all ports
Matrix
Internal grid with input port and output crossing each other
First check MAC, then switch makes a connection where two
ports (input/output) intersect
Bus-architecture
Common-bus
Dedicated buffer for each port and a circuit to control the
bus access
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Switch and TransparentBridging
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Most LAN switches use transparent bridging to create
address lookup tables
Transparent bridging is a technology that allows a
switch to learn everything it needs to know about the
location of nodes on the network within the network
administrator having to do anything. Has five parts:
Learning
Flooding
Filtering
Forwarding
Aging
Hub and switchcabling
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To create larger networks, connect hubs and switches
using
Standard port with special cable
Special ports with a standard cable
Standard port - Medium Dependent Interface-
Crossed (MDI-X)
Two wires are crossed internally
Medium Dependent Interface (MDI)
To see each other as an extension, no signal to be crossed
Using crossover cable between two MDI-X ports
To uncross the internal crossing
Routers
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Create largernetworks by joining two networks
segments.
Dedicated hardware device or computer systems
with more than one network interface and routing
software.
Routing table
Static routing
Dynamic routing
Use special routing protocols to pass info to other routers.
Distance Vector Routing (RIP)
Link state routing (OSPF)
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Switch and Router
•Different with router
– Typically switch works on lower level (Data
link Layer) while Router works in higher level
(Network Layer)
– Algorithms for router and switch about how to
forward packers are different
• For example, switch will forward broadcast, so does
hub, not router- the address has to be specific.
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Routers and Layer3 Switch
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While most switches operate at the Data link layer(layer2),
some incorporate features of a router and operate at the
network layer (layer3).
Layer 3 switches are faster because they are build on
“switching” hardware
a router is needed for VLANS communication
Why not build a router in the switch itself and do the forwarding in
hardware
EX: IP forwarding – all in hardware
Route lookup
Decrement the Time to Live (TTL)
Recalculation the checksum
Forward the frame the frame to correct output port
Gateways
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Any devicethat translate one data format to another is
called a gateway.
Router
Bridge
Software
Gateway and default gateway
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CSU/DSU
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Channel ServerUnit/Digital Service Unit ( CSU/DSU) or
Data Service Unit
Convert digital format on LAN into signal used on WAN
Sit between LAN and access point provided by telecom
company
Many routers have CSU/DSU functionality
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Wireless access points
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Devices that provide connectivity between wireless LAN
devices and in most cases a wired network.
Antennae
Convert signal from radio wave or other to that used on
the LANs.
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Modems
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Modulator/Demodulator, convertdigital signal
generated by computer into analog signals that can
travel over conventional phone line.
Connect to ISP
Dialing up to a LAN
Internal add-in expansion cards or external devices
connect to serial or USB port
PCMCIA cards for laptop
Speed
Modem itself
Speed of the Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
(UART) chip,
UART 16950 has the speed of 921,600kbp
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Network cards
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CalledNetwork Interface Cards (NIC)
Attached to external port
PC card
Internal Network card
System bus compatibility
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)
System Resources – device conflict
Media compatibility
Twisted pair, coaxial or fiber-optic connection?
Driver
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ISDN adapters
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IntegratedServices Digital Networking (ISDN) is a
remote access and WAN technology that can be
used in place of a Plain old telephone systems dial-up
link
Greater speeds than modem, pick up and drop the
line considerable faster.
Require ISDN terminal adapter
Although digital signal, different format with the those used
on LAN.
Create multiple communication channels on a single line.
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System area networkcards
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Connecting computer systems in a cluster
High-performance unit.
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Device Function/Purpose KeyPoints
Hub Connects devices on a
twisted-pair network.
A hub does not perform any tasks besides signal
regeneration.
Switch Connects devices on a
twisted-pair network.
A switch forwards data to its destination by using the MAC
address embedded in each packet.
Bridge Divides networks to reduce
overall network traffic.
A bridge allows or prevents data from passing through it by
reading the MAC address.
Router Connects networks together. A router uses the software-configured network address to
make forwarding decisions.
Gateway Translates from one data
format to another.
Gateways can be hardware or software based. Any device
that translates data formats is called a gateway.
CSU/DSU Translates digital signals
used on a LAN to those used
on a WAN.
CSU/DSU functionality is sometimes incorporated into
other devices, such as a router with a WAN connection.
Network card Enables systems to connect
to the network.
Network interfaces can be add-in expansion cards,
PCMCIA cards, or built-in interfaces.
ISDN terminal
adapter
Connects devices to ISDN
lines.
ISDN is a digital WAN technology often used in place of
slower modem links. ISDN terminal adapters are required
to reformat the data format for transmission on ISDN links.
System area network
card
Used in server clusters to
provide connectivity between
nodes.
System area network cards are high-performance devices
capable of coping with the demands of clustering
applications.
WAP Provides network capabilities
to wireless network devices.
A WAP is often used to connect to a wired network,
thereby acting as a link between wired and wireless
portions of the network.
Modem Provides serial
communication capabilities
across phone lines.
Modems modulate the digital signal into analog at the
sending end and perform the reverse function at the
receiving end.
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MAC addresses
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Unique6-byte address burned info network interface,
expressed in hexadecimal
No matter which protocol is used, MAC address is
the means by which the network interface is
identified on the network.
IEEE managing MAC address assignment
IEEE has a system Identifying the manufacturer by looking at
the MAC address
Discover MAC address, depend on the OS
Ifconfig /all on WINDOWs NT/2000
Ifconfig –a on Linux/UNIX
IEEE and Networkingstandards
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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
developed a series of networking standards
Networking technologies developed by manufacturers are
Compatible
Cabling, networking devices and protocols are all
interchangeable under the banner of a specific IEEE
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Specificatio
n
Name
802.1 Internetworking
802.2 TheLLC(Logincal Link Control) sublayer
802.3 CSMA/CD ( Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection) for Ethernet networks
802.4 A token passing bus
802.5 Token Ring networks
802.6 Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
802.7 Broadband Technical Advisory Group
802.8 Fiber-Optic Technical Advisory Group
802.9 Integrated Voice and Data Networks
802.10 Standards for Interoperable LAN/MAN Security (SILS) (Network
Security)
802.11 Wireless networks
802.12 100Mbps technologies, including 100BASEVG-AnyLAN
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802.3 IEEE standard
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Defines characteristics for Ethernet networks.
New additions, 802.3u for Fast Ethernet, 802.3z for
Gigabit Ethernet, referred to as 802.3x.
Speed: Original 10Mbps, Fast Ethernet 100Mbps,
Gigabit Ethernet 1000Mbps
Topology: bus or star.
Media: Coaxial and twisted pair cabling, also fiber
optic cable.
Access method: CSMA/CD
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802.5 IEEE standard
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Specifies the characteristics for Token Ring
Networks.
Introduced by IBM in the mid 80s, network topology
of choice until the rise of the popularity of Ethernet.
Speed: 4 to 16Mbps
Topology: logical ring and most often a physical star.
Logical ring is often created in the Multistation
Access Unit (MSAU)
Media: twisted pair cabling.
Access method: token passing.
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802.11b IEEE Standard
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Specifies the characteristics of wireless LAN Ethernet
networks.
Special devices called wireless access points to allow
communicate.
Also connect to wired networks to create wireless
portions of entire networks.
Speed: 802.11b specifies 11M. Today 802.11g can be
108Mbps
Media: 802.11b standard is 2.4G radio waves.
Topology: physical wireless, logical bus
Access method: Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision
Avoidance (CSMA/CA ), a variation of CSMA/CD.
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FDDI
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Fiber DistributedData Interface (FDDI) standard was
developed by American National Standards Institute
(ANSI)
Dual ring technology for fault tolerance
Speed: 100Mbps or higher
Topology: dual ring topology
Media: fiber optic cable, > 2 kilometers. Also possible
use copper wire as Copper Distributed Data
Interface (CDDI).
Access method: token-passing access method
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Standard Speed Physical
Topology
Logical
Topology
MediaAccess
Method
802.3 10Mbps Bus and Star Coaxial and
Twisted pair
CSMA/CD
(802.3u) 100Mbps( Fast
Ethernet)
Star Bus Twisted pair CSMA/CD
(802.3z) 1000Mbps Star Bus Twisted pair CSMA/CD
802.5 4Mbps and
16Mbps
Star Ring Twisted pair Token
passing
802.11b 11Mbps Wireless Bus Radio waves CSMA/CA
FDDI 100Mbps Dual Ring Ring Fiber-optic
Twisted
pair/CDDI
Token
passing