The use of the fiber optic transmission medium in local area networks is explored. A taxonomy of LANs is presented, and it is shown that the application of fiber optic technology to LANs can be grouped into two areas. The first area are traditional network architectures in which fiber is an alternative to other transmission media such as coaxial cable. The second area are networks designed specifically to exploit the bandwidth of fiber.
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