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From: jnc@proteon.com (J. Noel Chiappa)
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Subject: Re:  In search of FDDI ...
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Date: 30 May 89 21:25:59 GMT
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	Ken, I was just repeating the sense of an article I saw in the trade
rags. PC Week, May 22, 1989: 'Proteon Readies FDDI, X.25 Interfaces'. I
assumed everyone had seen it (or something similar in ComputerWorld or
InfoWorld); I mean, people my wife works with at NASA had seen the PC Week
one and shown it to her!
	"Proteon promised to offer an interface to its p4200 .. router that
supports the emerging [FDDI] standard for 100M-bps fiber-optic networks..
The company will release its interface once the FDDI standard is completely
defined next year.."
	One thing in that article that I know is wrong (for those of you who
saw it) is where it is talking about "the interface will be available next
year for less than $1,500 (sic)"; they dropped a 0 there.

	This is just a guess on my part, but I suspect that Proteon didn't
publicize this on the mailing list since that would count as 'adverising',
and we all know commercial entities aren't supposed to use the Government
supported parts of the Internet for that.
	I expect that if you call you friendly Proteon salesbeing, they can
tell you more.

	Noel