3Com 3C971-F manual Product Features

1-2 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Product Features

The 3C971-F adapter supports the following features:

■155 Mbps SONET OC-3c over multimode fiber

■AAL5 ATM adaptation layer

■Switched virtual circuit (SVC) software driver

■UNI 3.0/3.1 standard signaling for switched virtual circuit (SVC) connections

■ATM Forum standard LAN emulation client

■LAN emulation configuration server capability

■Communication with up to four LAN emulation servers

■PCI Local Bus specification revision 2.1 compliance

■32-bit, zero wait-state PCI DMA master

■Up to 64-byte burst transfers

■PCI commands that support efficient use of cache lines

■Dual-function memory management for cell-FIFO or on-board packet reassembly

■Hardware-based segmentation and reassembly (SAR) functions

■EEPROM for initialization parameters (configuration space and IEEE address)

■LEDs for software status and active line