High speed LANs based on fiber optics

Fiber technology has come to be the preferred solution in telephony applications and now it appears to be attractive for use in local network applications. In this paper same basic issues related to the impact of fibers on local networks are discussed. In particular, emerging LAN system trends along with the most cost effective solution for use in local network applications are reviewed. Some aspects of the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) standard are introduced and main problems related to the voice and digital data integration are also discussed.