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Product Overview

This chapter introduces the SunATM 155 and SunATM 622 3U CompactPCI adapters. The features, hardware requirements, and software requirements of these adapters are described in the following sections:

“Product Description” on page 1

“Hardware and Software Requirements” on page 3

“Overview of the Installation Procedure” on page 4

Product Description

The SunATM 3U CompactPCI adapters are designed for operation in hot swap systems that run under Solaris 8 6/00. An on-board FCode PROM provides the configuration support that identifies the SunATM 3U compact PCI adapters to the system.

Software Features

The SunATM software is compatible with relevant emerging standards (including existing ATM Forum baseline specifications and ITU-TS), and supports:

IETF RFC 1577 for Classical IP over ATM

IETF RFC 1483 for Protocol Encapsulation over ATM (except for bridge encapsulation)

ATM Forum recommendation for UNI 3.0, 3.1, or 4.0

ATM Forum recommendation for LAN Emulation 1.0

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