The British Telecom & Du Pont joint venture BT&D Technologies Ltd in Ipswich has signed Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Sunnyvale, California to market its DL1000 and DL2000 series of optical data links, which complement the AMD Supernet 100Mbps Fibre Digital Data Interface local area network chip set. The BT&D DL1000 will turn up first on Advanced Micro’s Fastcard, a board that will enable MS-DOS micros to be supported on FDDI fibre optic local networks. The BT&D parts comply with FDDI physical media-dependent requirements and are fabricated using metal organic vapour phase epitaxy and convert serial ECL signals to and from lightwaves in the 1,300 nanon band. The products covered by the agreement are the DLT1000 transmitter, the DLR1000 receiver, and the DLX2000 FDDI Physical Media-Dependent transceiver. AMD will be marketing the parts ast the the Am79h1000T, the Am79hl1000R and the Am79h2000X respectively.
