Cabletron Systems SFCS-200BX, SFCS-1000 manual GIA-200 Technical Specifications, Memory, DMA Support

Hardware Specifications

C.3.6 GIA-200 Technical Specifications

The GIA-200 ATM Adapter provides ATM connectivity to Silicon Graphics Indy and Indigo (R3K, R4K, and Challenge S supported) workstations, 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 GIO 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 3.375" W x 6.352" D (1.5 cm x 8.57 cm x 16.1 cm)
Weight	6 oz. (170 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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