San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems Inc is to sell its FDDI network adapter card product line to Dallas, Texas-based Interphase Corp on undisclosed terms. The reason for the sale, according to a spokesperson for Cisco, is that Cisco has focused on switching, routing, and value-added Internetwork Operating System technologies, and as a result FDDI adapters are viewed as a non-core area: for such non-core businesses the company prefers to partner, rather than owning the technologies outright. Under the terms of the deal, Interphase acquires the rights to all of Cisco’s SBus and EISA FDDI adapters. Interphase will market the products, complete with the same model numbers, for two years to current customers; support will continue to come from Cisco. Interphase will start taking orders for the products on June 10, and Cisco will stop accepting orders at the end of July.
