fiber optic interrepeater link

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link
FOIRL

   <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)