wiki:TBR/UserApp/FMVS_FDDI-II_Voice-Data_Backbone

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FMVS FDDI-II Voice-Data Backbone

FMVS FDDI-II Voice-Data Backbone

The FMVS is a slave VME card that provides a VME SBC access to an FDDI-II network. FDDI-II is a 100M bit fibre LAN technology build on the FDDI-I standard, that provides isochronous data transfer as well as the packet based LAN networking. FDDI-II is a fault tolerant redundant ring network. The FMVS can handle 128 full duplex voice channels with conferencing, as well as providing standard FDDI-I MAC capabilities. The has a card small foot print yet a fully functional independent node making it attractive to airborne distrubuted voice switching applications.

The software in the FMVS is written in C++ and was developed in the early to mid 1990's as part of the ​TAAATS VSCS project. The FMVS uses the RTEMS port of this software with improved performance.

The FMVS is used in the following products: