29. What about the future of FDDI? Is there a second-generation FDDI?
There was at one time, but the introduction of other, faster network technologies such
as Gigabit Ethernet and ATM have caused a halt to any development efforts on FDDI fol-
low-ons. For example, a technology called FDDI-II was intended to handle not only tradi-
tional FDDI network traffic, but also synchronous, circuit-switched PCM data for voice or
ISDN systems. Development has all but ceased and no commercial systems have been
deployed in the FDDI-II environment, especially given the growth of other, more popular
technologies such as
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