FDDI physical media; supports speeds of up to 100 Mbps over multimode fiber.
F & A
Finance and Administration
FAR
Federal Acquisition Regulations
FastPath
A gateway that connects AppleTalk Ethernet networks. It converts the AppleTalk protocol on a LocalTalk medium to EtherTalk on an Ethernet medium, and supports transmission of the TCP/IP protocol on both media. These boxes were originally manufactured by Kinetics, a division of Excelan. When the company was bought by Shiva, the box was renamed a Shiva FastPath. It has one AUI port and one LocalTalk port.
Frame Check Sequence; First Commercial Shipment (Cisco)
FDC
Federal Data Corporation (NETS purchases Cisco equipment from them)
FDDI concentrator
A device that allows flexible control of an FDDI configuration. It's primary purpose is to allow devices to be disconnected from an FDDI ring without disrupting the continuity of the ring.
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface. A 100-megabits-per-second networking standard. The underlying medium is fiber optics, and the topology is a dual-attached, counter-rotating Token Ring.
Foothills Lab, Buildings 1, 2, 3, and 4 (i.e., FL1, FL2, FL3, and FL4), 3450 Mitchell Drive, Boulder, CO 80303
FMLA
Family Medical Leave Act
FOC
Firm Order Committment
Foothills Lab
Foothills Lab, Buildings 1, 2, 3, and 4 (i.e., FL1, FL2, FL3, and FL4), 3450 Mitchell Drive, Boulder, CO 80303
FOT
Fiber-Optic Transceiver.
FPC
Flexible PIC Concentrator (Juniper)
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
FR3000
A fiber-optic repeater manufactured by Cabletron Systems. It has one set of ST fiber ports and one AUI port.
FR
Frame Relay
fragmentation
The process in which an IP datagram is broken into smaller pieces to fit the requirements of a given physical network. The reverse process is termed reassembly. See MTU.
