Abstract

As FDDI products emerge in the marketplace, distributed processing applications tools, such as the network computing system, the network file system, and distributed data base management systems, are maturing and becoming more widely used. With the explosion of distributed applications based on these tools, network performance of FDDI speeds will be critical. FDDI has the potential to provide the bandwidth requirements for these applications. To truly deliver this potential and achieve high-performance distributed computing in FDDI networks, we should consider several factors. These include FDDI topology considerations for distributed processing tools to use the dual-ring (200 Mb/s) bandwidth potential of FDDI.

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