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kjell@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Kjell Saeten) writes:
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| I am interested in XTP over FDDI, and about half a year ago I read something
| about a XTP chips set, PE-1000. Does anybody knows anything about this ?
| PE stands for Protocol Engine, and I heard some rumour about economical
| problems?
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Protocol Engines, Inc. (PEI) has indeed recently closed its doors. I can't
comment on the possible availability of the PE-1000 chipset technology;
I suspect the matter is probably still being negotiated with PEI's investors.
[I will say more at a future time, if I can find out anything official.]

However, XTP is alive and well. It was never really very interdependent with
the chipset anyway -- there are several independent implementations out there
in the world -- and some time back Larry Green, one of the founders of PEI,
spun off two new companies to deal with XTP by itself.

One is called "The XTP Forum, Inc.", and is a non-profit organization for the
continued evolution of the XTP protocol, possible standardization activities,
etc. This includes the continuation of the XTP TAB (Technical Advisory Board)
and XTP RA (Research Affiliates) activities, more or less unchanged from the
way they were under PEI.

The other company is "XTP Systems, Inc.", which is a for-profit firm engaged
in continued development/licensing of the XTP KRM (Kernel Reference Model)
implementation of XTP (originally developed by PEI & SGI), as well as other
commercial XTP-related activities, I suspect.

Both may be reached at the following address (which may be familiar
to some as the former address of the Santa Barbara office of PEI):

        Larry Green  
	XTP Forum, Inc.            (or XTP Systems, Inc.)
        1900-D State Street
        Santa Barbara, CA  93101

	Phone: (805)965-0825  (answered as "XTP Forum")
	FAX:   (805)687-2984

(Currently their e-mail is non-functional, but a couple of us are trying
to help get them re-connected...)


-Rob

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