NETGEAR GA621 manual Introduction

•Duplex SC fiber connector for 62.5-micron or 50-micron multimode fiber cable

•Interoperability with existing Fast Ethernet equipment compliance with the following standards and protocols:

–IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet

–IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet

•Standard Ethernet frame size (up to 1,518 bytes)

•Jumbo frames support

•33/66 MHz, 32/64-bit PCI bus master (Local Bus Revision 2.2 compliant) with adaptive DMA channels

•Two independent DMA channels for simultaneous read and write operations; as a bus master, the network card requests access to the PCI bus instead of waiting to be polled

•Software driver support for Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Me, NetWare 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, and Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1.

•Universal dual-voltage signaling (3.3 V and 5 V)

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