F
Failover

A characteristic of a highly available component or service that describes the ability to switch to another equivalent component or service so that the overall availability is still maintained.

See also [High Availability]
FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FIB

Forwarding Information Base

FIFO

First In, First Out

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Array

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