hutch@celerity.uucp (Jim Hutchison) (05/19/89)
Hi folks, I heard once that proteon made a nice FDDI transceiver product.
At the moment I am in need of some info on such products. I am not in
purchasing, but I am curious how things are progressing. Is it up to a
Gigabit reliably yet? Thanks for any info or pointers to info.
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/* Disclaimor: I am not an official spokesman for FPS computing */jnc@proteon.com (J. Noel Chiappa) (05/30/89)
I think some bits got garbled on their way to you. I'm not sure what an 'FDDI transceiver' might be. Proteon does make boxes which are Fiber links for their proprietary wire based Pronet-80 ring, an 80MBit/sec ring very similar to FDDI (in fact, the FDDI transmission layer is based on it) they have been selling for some years now. I don't think FDDI has any spec for how to run it over wire (any FDDI experts out there?), so I'm not sure what a transceiver would be (unless you mean the optical transmitter and receiver DIP modules). Proteon is not yet shipping any FDDI products. I forget what's been announced, but I know a Multibus board for the p4200 has definitely been announced. Finally, as far as I know, FDDI runs only at 100Mbit/second, and once again, if any FDDI experts know more, please fill us in. Noel