| technol. |
Used in either token ring or fiber distributed data interface FDDI networks, all stations nodes are connected to a multi-station access unit MSAU, that physically resembles a star-type topology. (A ring configuration is created when MSAUs are linked together in forming a network. Messages in the network are sent in a deterministic fashion from sender and receiver via a small frame, referred to as a token ring. To send a message, a sender obtains the token with the right priority as the token travels around the ring, with receiving nodes reading those messages addressed to it) |
