Figure 4a-3: FDDI Backbone Network 16 Mbps 10 Mbps 802.5 Netw ork 802. 3 Netw ork 100 Mbps FDDI Backbone netw ork 16 Mbps 802.5 Netw ork tOMb 802.3 Netw ork Fiber Distributed Data Interface(FDDI) was a 100 Mbps token ring network technology that could spans tens of kilometers This made it an ideal backbone network to connect 10 Mbps ethernet networks and 16 mbps 802.5 Token - Ring networks As Ethernet grew to 100 Mbps and faster fddi became obsolete and was discarded5 Figure 4a-3: FDDI Backbone Network 10 Mbps 802.3 Netw ork 10Mbps 802.3 Netw ork 16 Mbps 802.5 Netw ork 100 Mbps FDDI Backbone Netw ork 16 Mbps 802.5 Netw ork Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) was a 100 Mbps token ring network technology that could spans tens of kilometers This made it an ideal backbone network to connect 10 Mbps Ethernet networks and 16 Mbps 802.5 Token-Ring networks As Ethernet grew to 100 Mbps and faster, FDDI became obsolete and was discarded