HP offers a family of 100Mb/s FDDI LAN adapters that provide FDDI capability on a wide variety of servers supporting the various server buses. The manufacturing industry has strongly embraced FDDI because of its 100-Mb/s speed, inherent reliability, fiber connectivity (insusceptibility to noisy environments), and long-distance capability. Aerospace, semiconductor, and automotive companies are among the leading proponents of FDDI. Manufacturing companies frequently use CAD/CAM technologies to design products and then merge these new products into manufacturing lines. FDDI is particularly good for transporting large files or image-intensive data over long distances at high speeds and with high availability.FDDI has also gained popularity in the financial services industry for many of the same reasons as in manufacturing. Banks and brokerage firms also need to transport large files and image-intensive data over long distances at high speeds, with high availability.