On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:01:31AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> I believe it's used in bidirectional fiber-optic communications. To what
> extent, I'm not sure and to be honest I just looked that up.
FDDI was essentially token ring on fiber, but it too is long dead due
to ethernet. I don't recall seeing anything in the last couple of
decades that used token ring. I am curious what you found.
Sorry that was just a reference to the fact that FDDI is deployed in the past. You'd have to figure that if the effort was made to use a dedicated fiber network in a complex, business or government, they'd still be using it wouldn't they?
The reference also said it's losing ground, but as with all things tech, optical connections are becoming commonplace in IoT and old stuff becomes new again.
The paranoid me wonders if my computer speakers are a microphone also. :-0
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Len Sorensen