Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link

Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link

(networking)(FOIRL) An older standard of fiber optic guidesused for carrying 10 MBps Ethernet. The maximum length of asegment is 1 km. A FOIRL multiport repeater andtransceivers are necessary to carry the signal to multipledevices.

The more recent version of Ethernet over fiber optic cables is10baseFL with a maximum segment length of 2 km.