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From: jnc@proteon.com (J. Noel Chiappa)
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Subject: Re:  In search of FDDI transceiver info
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Date: 29 May 89 19:59:19 GMT
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	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