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HARSHA VARDHAN
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Adapting fiber optics to buses

Fiber-optic technology was originally developed to allow highspeed

data and voice communications over long distances.

FIBER-OPTIC NETWORK DESIGN

Distribution and Layout Planning

The basis for these design strategies is a standard known as the Electrical
Industries Alliance/Telecommunications Industries Association “Commercial
Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard 568B” (EIA/TIA-568B). This
standard recommends a design strategy for cabling commercial
Structures that is independent of what will be passed over the cable. The type
of network equipment should not influence the type of cable being installed.
The architecture of the EIA/TIA standard is based on a tree/star topology The
top of the hierarchy is a main communications center or main cross connect
(MC) feeding a maximum of two sub layers of telecommunications closets.
These are known as intermediatecross-connects (IC) and horizontal cross-
connects (HC).Equipment such as computers or controllers can be connected
at any layer. This is an extremely flexible design because itprovides a clear
path between any two points in a facility. Atthe same time, as the EIA/TIA
points out in its standard, itcan mimic other topologies such as the ring or bus.
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Fig 2 shows the two most common data bus topologies the loop network and
the star network. The loop or tee topology has an advantage because it
minimizes the number of cables, so installation and expansion is easy.
However, the loss at each copular limits the repeater less use of this
configuration to relatively few users. The star configuration. On the other
hand, can support a very large number of users without repeaters because the
splitting loss goes as LOG N