SunFDDI Configuration and Requirements SunFDDI products can handle traffic problems associated with saturatedbackbones and limited bandwidth. The SunFDDI products conform to theestablished ANSI FDDI standards for fiber-optic LANs. They provideincreased capacity for local area network traffic and can support speedsof up to 100 Mbps. The SunFDDI adapters give Sun customers the highestperformance and most reliable FDDI adapters available for the SBus. Because many customers have deployed FDDI in the network, SMCC iscommitted to provide the best FDDI products to meet customers' needs.
Stations can be workstations, bridges, or routers.
FDDI has typically been relegated to the backbone. Not all connections from the backbonemust be made by single attachments. Dual-attached cards can be used, but instead of attachingthe station directly into the dual ring, each port can be attached to a different concentrator. This type of connection is called dual-homing. For critical network nodes, such as fileservers, dual-homing provides an enhanced level of fault tolerance that is hard to matchwith other technologies.