10BASE-F, or sometimes
10BASE-FX, is a generic term for the family of 10 Mbit/s
Ethernet standards using
fiber-optic cable. In 10BASE-F, the 10 represents a maximum throughput of 10 Mbit/s, BASE indicates its use of
baseband transmission, and F indicates that it relies on a medium of fiber-optic cable. The technical standard requires two strands of 62.5/125 μm
multimode fiber. One strand is used for data transmission while the other is used for reception, making 10BASE-F a
full-duplex technology. There are three different variants of 10BASE-F:
10BASE-FL,
10BASE-FB and
10BASE-FP. Of these only 10BASE-FL experienced widespread use. With the introduction of later standards 10 Mbit/s technology has been largely replaced by faster
Fast Ethernet,
Gigabit Ethernet and
100 Gigabit Ethernet standards.
FOIRL Fiber-optic inter-repeater link (FOIRL) is a specification of Ethernet over optical fiber. It was specially designed as a back-to-back transport between
repeater hubs to decrease latency and
collision detection time, thus increasing the possible network radius. It was replaced by
10BASE-FL. ==See also==