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News Release from: Thales Computers | Subject: OC-3 PMC ATM NIC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 August 2003
PMC card links with single-mode fibre
networks
Thales Computers has a new PMC ATM network interface card that provides compliance with wide area network standards for the company's line of asynchronous transfer mode network solutions.
Thales Computers has a new PMC ATM network interface card (NIC) that provides compliance with wide area network (WAN) standards for the company's line of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network solutions The new OC-3 PMC ATM NIC is designed to help meet the expanding demand for third generation (3G) wireless and broadband Internet applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jun 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new OC-3 PMC ATM NIC meets the ITU-T G.825 ATM-WAN recommendation for jitter, as well as the ITU-T G.957 S-1.1 standard for short-haul single-mode fibre, which is widely used in WANs.
The new NIC provides WAN compliance to Thales Computers' selection of plug-in ATM solutions for Pentium- or PowerPC-based CompactPCI or VME host CPUs, which includes ATM Network PMC, and an ATM protocol software stack delivered as a binary driver or in source code with a royalty buyout licence.
Thales Computers' ATM software stacks support the most popular TCP/IP protocols as well as standard raw ATM access to meet the needs for 3G wireless and broadband Internet access applications.
ATM is the communications standard for 3G networks, which provide multimedia access to mobile phones.
In addition, ATM protocols are increasingly employed in real-time aerospace and defence applications.
The new OC-3 PMC ATM NIC uses the IDT NICStar controller, which supports CBR, VBR, UBR, and ABR service classes.
The new card can be provided with one of several available interfaces, including single-mode fibre, multimode fibre, software-configurable E3 or DS3 on coaxial cable, or Sonet/SDH STS3c/STM1 155Mbit/s on UTP5 with an onboard RJ45 connector.
ATM software has been designed to support the most popular TCP/IP protocols (Classical-IP, ATM Forum LANE) as well as raw access (Native ATM).
ATM software is currently available on VxWorks under Tornado 1 and 2 from WindRiver Systems, on LynxOS 3.1 from LynuxWorks, and on Sun Solaris 5.3 for SparcIt.
In addition, Thales Computers PMC ATM can be run under Linux.
The new OC-3 PMC ATM NIC is available immediately; list price with a multimode fibre interface is $783, and with a short-haul single-mode fibre interface is $1050.
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