56Kbps Technology

PC Card standard compatibility and Plug and Play features are assured with full support of all major operating systems. Compatibility with all major Network Operating Systems is guaranteed by Silicom’s wide range of thoroughly tested NOS drivers. The Data/Fax Modem is installed as a COM port and runs an extended AT command set, enabling it to work with all major Fax/Modem software.

The video-ready interface supplied by the CardBus 10/100 TX M56 provides videoconferencing capability using traditional POTS lines.

The Hypertec CardBus 10/100 TX M56 Card is compliant with the OnNow Network Device Class Power Management Specification, the PCI Power Management Interface, and the ACPI Specification. The Hypertec CardBus 10/100 TX M56 Card supports all PC 97 Design Guide and the PC 98 Draft Design Guide network device class requirements.

The Hypertec CardBus 10/100 TX M56 Card uses K56flex× and V.90 modem technologies to reach speeds of up to 56Kbps over standard phone lines. This, together with downstream speeds of up to 56Kbps provided by the

user’s Internet Service Provider (ISP) results in dramatically faster delivery of Internet information.

The higher speeds are achieved by using only one digital-to-analog line conversion in the connection between the user and the Internet Service Provider. This requires the ISP to have a direct digital connection, and the modems at both ends must be compatible. Using V.90 and K56flex× technologies, data is downloaded from the server at speeds of up to 56Kbps, while data sent upstream by the user travels at the standard V.34 maximum rate of 33.6Kbps.