AEI Intelligent Technologies' CompactPCI dual port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet card (CP1200TX) is designed to deliver high performance, and high reliability for demanding applications, as well as legacy Fast Ethernet connectivity. It provides a full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet connection on an IEEE-compliant 3U Eurocard form factor (Optional 6U adapter kit). The Gigabit Ethernet interfaces provides unparalleled server throughput that helps reduce administrative complexity by replacing multiple slower interface cards with a single Gigabit adapter. Furthermore, the CP1200TX is competitively priced to compete against other multi-channel Fast Ethernet cards for those applications requiring port density.
AEI's adapters are the perfect solution for a cost effective, instant performance boost over existing Category 5 UTP copper cabling. It also offers scalability for those contemplating future upgrades to Gigabit technology.
AEI's CompactPCI adapters support multiprocessing. It is possible to have more than one processor board on a CompactPCI backplane. These boards can take control of the PCI bus and send data directly to another PCI peripheral on the bus. The PCI bus on the host processor (system controller) arbitrates the access to the PCI bus if several intelligent peripherals (slaves) attempt to take control of the PCI bus at the same time. This type of multiprocessing is typically designed to let intelligent peripherals perform dedicated tasks to offload the host CPU.
Design Characteristics
The CP1200TX supports and auto-negotiates between 32/64-bit, and 33/66/100/133 MHz datapaths. Built with PCI-X technology, the CP1200TX supports PICMG standard PCI specifications, and also embedded PCI-X single board computers. It is uniquely designed with integrated magnetics, low profile surface mount resistors and capacitors, high precision oscillator, and other high-end discrete components. The result is a card that is highly reliable, resistant to damage, fault tolerant, and performance that is unparalleled. The P1200TX is fully interoperable with existing Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet hubs, switches and routers.
Hardware Hot Swap Compliant
The AEI Gigabit adapter is designed to be hot swap compliant. This hot-swap support reduces downtime by allowing administrators to insert, remove, and upgrade cards while the system is still powered-up and operating. Please contact us if you are interested in hot-swap drivers.
Boot ROM Support
AEI designs its server class Gigabit adapters with Boot ROM support, and offers embedded programming services (no charge) for all popular operating systems. Thus, OEMs can utilize distribution servers to ease installation, and provide seamless integration of the CP1200TX into its designs.
Jumbo Frame
The Gigabit adapter is configurable to support Jumbo Frame (Up to 16KB)
Advanced Server Features
AEI's CompactPCI Gigabit adapters utilize the popular Intel 82546 chipset, which comes with numerous advance server features built into its architecture. Hardware acceleration offloads tasks from the host processor including TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation. Link aggregation, failover, and load balancing are offered, and the adapter is also fully compliant with Gigabit EthernetChannel and Fast EtherChannel trunking algorithms. (With switches which support 802.3ad (LACP))
Features
- Ten times the throughput of standard Fast Ethernet cards
- 3U form factor with front panel I/O connectors (optional 6U conversion kit)
- Eliminates the need for carrier cards
- N-way auto negotiation, automatic sensing and switching between 10Mbps/100Mbps/1000Mbps, with half or full duplex operation
- 32/64-bit Auto Sense Data Path
- Easy to install and configure
- Cross Platform support for a broad range of operating systems and architectures
- DMA Bus Mastering for lower CPU utilization
- Hardware Hot Swap compliant
- Access multiple network segments and conserve valuable PCI/PCI-X slots
- Easy, cost-effective 10/100/1000 migration over existing Category-5 cabling
- Multi-Gigabit scalability and increased uptime through advanced server features
Applications
- Proxy, application, file, and print servers.
- SOHO to Enterprise network environments.
- Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Network segmentation (for network security purposes)
- Firewalls, gateways and routers.
Specifications
| Configurations |
PX1200TX - cPCI 3U 10/100/1000 Gigabit card
OPT-1200TXU6 - Optional 6U conversion kit |
| Connector |
Dual front panel RJ-45(f)
10/100/1000Base-Tx with integrated magnetics |
| IEEE Standards |
IEEE 802.3 (10Base-T Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3u (100Base-Tx Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3ab (1000Base-T)
IEEE 802.3ad (Port Aggregation)
802.1Q (VLAN)
802.1x (Flow Control)
802.1p (Layer 2 Priority Encoding QoS)
802.1z
JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) Test Access Port built in
PICMG 2.16 Compliant
Fast EtherChannel (FEC) and Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) supported. |
| Form Factor |
Industrial 3U Eurocard Form Factor
Optional 6U conversion kit available. |
PacketEngine
Network Management Software |
Provided at nominal expense!
Contact us for supported operating systems and versions. |
| On-Chip SMBus 2.0 Port |
Enables IPMI and ASF implementations.
Allows packets to be routed to and from either LAN port and a server management processor. |
| ASF 1.0 Alerting |
Provides alerting and remote control capabilities with standardized interfaces |
| Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) 2.1 Flash Interface Support (32-bit and 64-bit) |
Local flash interface for PXE images |
| Host CPU Offloading Features |
Checksum Offloading - IP, TCP and UDP checksum offloading capabilities on both TX and RX.
TCP Segmentation - Increased throughput with lower CPU utilization, compatibile with large send offload feature found in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. |
| Jumbo Frames |
Up to 16KB |
| Duplex |
Half or Full Duplex operation capable. |
| Wake on LAN (WoL) Support |
Fully supported |
| J1/J2 Connector |
32/64-bit, 33/66/100/133MHz (Auto Sensed)
3.3V or 5V Operation
Compatible with PCI and PCI-X single board computers |
| Data Transfer Mode |
DMA bus mastering, lower CPU utilization |
| On-Board Memory |
1MB Flash/Boot ROM
128KB EPROM |
| VLAN |
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion and stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags. Enables IT staff to easily create multiple virtual LAN segments. |
| Cable & Distance |
Ethernet, 10Base-T (Cat 3, 4, 5 UTP)
Fast Ethernet, 100Base-Tx (Cat 5 UTP)
Gigabit Ethernet, 1000Base-T (Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, and DataTwist 600e)
Distance up to 100 meters maximum. |
| Auto-Negotiation / NWay |
N-way auto negotiation, automatic sensing and switching between 10Mbps/100Mbps/1000Mbps, with half or full duplex operation |
| LEDs |
ACTIVITY, LINK, STATUS, 100Mbps, 1000Mbps, and two user programmable |
| PCI Standards |
PCI v2.2 32/64-bit, 33/66MHz
PCI-X v1.0 32/64-bit, 66/100/133MHz |
| Bus Type |
PCI-X v1.0 Compliant, backwards compatible with PCI 2.1 & 2.2 |
| Driver Support |
Windows 95/98, NT 4.0, 2000, 2000 Advanced Server, Win XP, and Server 2003
Novell Netware 4.x, 5.X
Linux 2.2 / 2.4 / 2.6
FreeBSD
IRIX 6.5
Solaris (x86 & SPARC) 2.7 and higher
HP-UX 10.2 (PA-RISC)
VxWorks |
DOS, OS/2, ODI
| Certifications |
FCC Part 15, Subpart B (Pending) |
| Environment Specs |
Temperature: operating 0C to 55C
Humidity: 0 to 95% non-condensing |
| Power Consumption |
Operating Voltage: 3.3VDC/5VDC
Consumption: 1.6W |
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