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Metropolitan area networks : concepts, standards, and services

Gary C. Kessler, David A. Train

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This book provides an exhaustive look at current MAN standards and products, and how they fit in with other communications services and standards. It covers the definition of MANs and the two main strategies today: ANSI's Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), and the IEEE's Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB).

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Key concepts: Distributed-queue dual-bus, Fiber Distributed Data Interface, Metropolitan area network, Computer science, Metropolitan area, Computer network, Queue, Telecommunications