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From: my@dtg.nsc.com (Michael Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: FDDI Tutorial Paper wanted
Keywords: FDDI
Message-ID: <1223@frapper.nsc.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 20:14:37 GMT
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Reply-To: my@frapper.UUCP (Michael Yip)
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Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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There are many papers on FDDI network.  One source of
getting an introduction type of paper is from one of
the companies making FDDI related products.  National
Semiconductor Corp (408) 721-6099 and AMD are currently
producing FDDI chipsets.  Therefore, both companies will
probably have a big stack of papers in the FDDI area.
When I first learn about FDDI, I read the book "Handbook
of Computer Communication Standards Vol 2" by William
Stallings [ISBN: 0-672-22665-0].  It presents a brief
introduction to the FDDI network and it is very easy to 
understand -- I like it and is great for a class.  The
last source is the FDDI committee, ANSI committee.  The
document from ANSI is very detail and very very long.  I
used it very often as a reference at work but it is kind
of hard to read and is very dry.

-- Mike
   my@dtg.nsc.com