FDDI advice - HECnet

11 Oct 2013

Wouldn't that mean more than one token on a ring?

Van: Sridhar Ayengar
Verzonden: vrijdag 11 oktober 2013 19:55
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] FDDI advice

Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
...
  Half duplex Ethernet slows down when there are
collisions, but there
 is no wait to transmit whenever the link is idle. With FDDI, there
 is (you wait for the token). So at high load, half duplex Ethernet
 might be a little slower than FDDI, but at modest load, it will
 definitely be faster (lower latency). 
But, doesn't the GIGAswitch get around that by generating a token for 
each port? Isn't that how switched-FDDI works?

Peace... Sridhar