Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link

networking (FOIRL) An older standard of fiber optic guides

used for carrying 10 MBps Ethernet. The maximum length of a

segment is 1 km. A FOIRL multiport repeater and

transceivers are necessary to carry the signal to multiple

devices.

The more recent version of Ethernet over fiber optic cables is

10baseFL with a maximum segment length of 2 km.

(1998-06-28)