Hardware Specifications

C.3.10 ESA-200 Technical Specifications

The ESA-200 ATM Adapter provides ATM connectivity to EISA-based work- stations, PCs, and servers, and has the following specifications:

 

Hardware

Architecture

On-board 25 mHz i960 cell processor

 

 

AAL Support

Special purpose, on-board hardware for HEC, CRC, and AAL5 and

 

3/4 calculations

 

 

UNI

100 and 140 Mbps TAXI (4B/5B encoding);

 

155Mbps OC-3/SONET STS-3c/SDH STM-1

 

 

Form Factor

Single-slot EISA bus

 

 

Compliance

ATM cell processing per ANSI T1S1.5/92-002R3, ITU I.361, and

 

ATM Forum v3.0 UNI specification

 

 

Cabling

Duplex 62.5/125 ∝m multimode fiber (2 km max. run, 10 dB loss);

 

2-pair 100 ohm CAT 5 or CAT 5 screened UTP (100 meters max.)

 

 

Connectors

ST and SC Types for multimode fiber; RJ-45 for CAT 5 UTP copper

 

 

Memory

256 kbytes on-board RAM

 

 

DMA Support

32-bit burst mode, bus master; “Fly-by,” scatter-gather DMA sup-

 

port; Supports block transfers up to 16 words; Full 32-bit datapath

 

 

 

Software

Transparent TCP/IP protocol interface

Enhanced-performance ATM Application Programming Interface (API) Library

SPANS Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC) signalling protocol

Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVC), Supports up to 1024 Virtual Circuit Identifiers (VCIs)

Application-controlled multicasting and broadcasting with recipient add and delete capabilities

Support for UNI 3.0 signalling, ILMI, LAN Emulation Clients, Classical IP

SNMP MIB access to adapter status, ATM cell statistics, cell errors, and VCI/VPI information

 

General

Dimensions

0.6" H x 4.3" W x 11.7" D (1.5 cm x 10.9 cm x 29.7 cm)

 

 

Weight

9 oz. (255 g)

 

 

Power Requirements

2A (maximum) @ +5V

 

 

Operating Temperature

32˚F to 104˚F (0˚C to 40˚C)

 

 

Operating Humidity

20% to 80%, non-condensing @ 40˚C

 

 

Compliance

FCC Part 15, Class A Verification (UTP); FCC Class B Certification

 

(fiber-optic connectors)

 

 

 

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