newsbytes@clarinet.com (02/04/90)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1990 JAN 30 (NB) -- Timeplex introduced a series of local area and wide area broadband networking systems, including so-called T-3 equipment which moves data at up to 45 million bits/second. The new products include the TIME/LAN Family of fiber routers, concentrators, and routing bridges, and the TX3/SuperHub, a T-3 networking system. The most important part of the announcement is Timeplex' commitment to so-called Fiber Distributed Data Interchange, or FDDI, standards. "This is our first entry into the local area marketplace," said a Timeplex spokesman. "Doing that through fiber is important. We let LANs not only talk to each other, but be connected to wide area networks. Someone at a workstation in one part of the world can now transfer data to another workstation elsewhere in the world." Timeplex said its FDDI products cut fiber connection costs between local area networks in half. (Dana Blankenhorn/19900202/Press Contact: Tony Squeglia, Timeplex, 201-573-6427)