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F

Fast Ethernet, 111-115, 281

fault-tolerant systems, 439-440, 613-616

fax servers, 376-337

FCAL (Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop), 334

FCC (Federal Communications Commission), 301

FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)

described, 10

fiber- optic cables and, 297-298

limitations of, 125-126

FDDI-II, 125

FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing), 79, 80, 84, 438

FEA (Fast Ethernet Alliance), 111

FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum), 306-308

Fiber and Optical Networking, 65-70

fiber-optic cables, 23, 28-32, 75-79, 277-278

Fibre Channel, 334-335

Fibre Channel SAN Security, 605-609

file servers, 315-318, 353-354

filtering, 339, 426-427, 430-431, 498

firewalls, 541-545, 564-568, 589

flags, 375

frame relay, 34-35, 120-123

frame switching, 438

frames

bridges and, 429

broadcast, 442-443

NICs and, 313-314

packet switching and, 439

types of, 106-110

FSK (Frequency-Shift Keying), 27

FTP (File Transfer Protocol), 12, 158, 218

Fundamentals of Optical Networking, 61-65

Future I/O, 324-325