FDDI Media Access Control
Uses a controlled access token passing scheme
- Sending computer
- Wait for the token, when receive it
- Attach the packet to the token and transmit them
- Receiving computer
- See if there is a packet attached to the token
- If there is ? process the packet
- If it needs to transmit a packet ? follow the steps above
- If no packet to send ? simply transmit the token to the next computer
Very reliable and provide adequate response time until it almost reaches saturation at 100 Mbps