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The FDDILink Family: Setting the standard for
affordability in high-performance adapters.
FDDILINK ADAPTERS

An affordable package of

high-performance and fault

tolerance for servers and

workstations with the PCI or

EISA bus. 3Com FDDILink

adapters deliver low CPU

utilization and advanced

network resiliency.

3Com FDDILink adapters give you
affordable performance and fault
tolerance for high-speed, high-
bandwidth networks. FDDILink
adapters transfer a large amount of
data from peripherals to the LAN
with very low CPU utilization,
using bus mastering and an on-
board 128-KB RAM buffer to meet
the demands of high-performance
workstations and network servers.
Look to the FDDILink adapter
family for:
■High performance. Prepare
yourself for a smooth and fast ride.
FDDILink adapters can clock
transfer rates of 75 Mbps in
NetWare servers, with only
25-percent CPU utilization.
■Low-cost FDDI/CDDI.
FDDILink adapters’ support for
STP and standards-based UTP
brings FDDI to the server cluster at
a price well below that of competi-
tive adapters. You also save
because the high performance and
low CPU utilization of FDDILink
adapters allow each server to
support more users.
■Interoperability. FDDILink
adapters are 100-percent FDDI
ANTC tested, and allow interoper-
ability with SDDI or pre-SDDI
de facto standards, Fiber X3T9.5
standards, as well as the TP-PMD
standard v2.0.
■Easy installation. FDDILink
adapters are simple to install
with 3Com’s friendly and compre-
hensive menu-driven configuration
software.
■Wide-ranging compatibility.
NetWare 3.1x and 4.x, NDIS 2.01
and Windows NT drivers on the
3Com FDDIDisk are bundled with
the adapter to provide hardware and
software compatibility.
■Advanced Network Resiliency.
FDDILink EISA adapters feature
3Com’s Resilient Home
Architecture (RHA), which allows
the installation of multiple
FDDILink adapters in a server, and
when attached to multiple hubs,
creates MAC-level resilient links.
The PCI Fiber DAS adapter pro-
vides the same redundancy with the
use of a single adapter.
■Reliability. Operate with the
confidence of knowing that
FDDILink adapters are so reliable
that 3Com backs them with a
lifetime warranty.
■The wiring you need. Supporting
EISA and PCI buses, FDDILink
adapters are available for Type 1
shielded twisted-pair (STP),
Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair
(UTP), and glass fiber networks.