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Any network architecture must follow some set of protocols. On the one hand, the set of protocols may be home grown - that is specified by the designer of the network. On the other hand, the set of protocols may conform to a recognized, published, set of standards.
With respect fiber optic data communications in the premises environment there are three recognized, published, sets of standards; 1) Ethernet, 100Base-FX, 2) Fiber Distributed Data Interface, FDDI and 3) Fiber Channel.
A discussion of these published standards is well beyond the present work. However, the interested reader may order them from a number of different sources. Several are listed (alphabetically) below. When calling these organizations it will be worth your while to request a catalog and request to be included on their update services. This will allow you to be kept informed of new standards and supplements to existing ones as they are approved.
| ANSI | Sales Department |
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| American National Standards Institute | |
| 11 West 42nd Street, 13th Floor | |
| New York, NY 10036 | |
| Tel: (212) 642-4900 | |
| Fax: (212) 302-1286 |
| EIA | Electronic Industries Association |
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| 2500 Wilson Blvd. | |
| Arlington, VA 22201 | |
| Tel: (703) 907-7500 | |
| Fax: (703) 907-7501 |
| Global | 15 Inverness Way East |
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| Engineering | Englewood, CO 80112-5704 |
| Tel: (800) 624-3974 | |
| Tel: (303) 792-2181 | |
| Fax: (303) 790-0730 |
| IEEE | IEEE Customer Service |
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| 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331 | |
| Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 | |
| Tel: (800) 678-4333 | |
| Tel: (908) 562-1393 | |
| Fax: (908) 981-9667 |
