Connecting remote FDDI installations with single-mode fiber, dedicated lines, or SMDS
Bellcore Lawrence J. Lang, James Watson, Ameritech Services · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 1990
The Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is emerging as an important ANSI standard for high-performance data networking. Many users will install FDDI at different sites, and then want to connect these installations while sacrificing as little performance as possible. This paper discusses several technically practical ways to connect remote FDDI installations, including: using FDDI as a metropolitan area network by extending with single-mode fiber or with a SONET mapping, using bridges or routers coupled with dedicated lines, and using bridges or routers connected with Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS).