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Powerful mezzanine card has Ethernet interface

Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Nov 5, 2004

Powerful mezzanine card features high-performance dual 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet interface controller ports and complies with IEEE 802.3 specifications for a variety of node types.

Advantech, the world's leading industrial computer manufacturer and automation innovator, releases its PICMG-3.1-compliant PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC), the MIC-3665.

This most powerful PCI-X 1.0a PMC features high-performance dual 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet interface controller ports.

The Ethernet network interface complies with IEEE 802.3 specifications for 1000Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 10Base-T.

Full-duplex and half-duplex modes are supported for 10Base-T and 100Base-TX.

1000Base-T supports full-duplex mode only.

MIC-3665 incorporates the Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet controller which is able to support 1000 Mbps data rates.

The controller is a single, compact component with two complete Gigabit Ethernet MAC and PHY layer functions, and it has a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) interface.

The controller provides a direct 32/64-bit, 33/66 MHz, and PCI-X 1.0a-compliant PCI bus.

MIC-3665 is designed especially for high-performance systems such as servers and high-end workstations.

If end users combine a CPU board that supports a PCI-X 1.0a PMC interface with MIC-3665, they have superior PCI-X 133MHz performance.

The combination can be used as an IP edge device for a firewall, a VPN router, authentication, or SSL.

To meet different application requirements, Advantech's MIC-3665 offers two kinds of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces: dual copper RJ-45 interfaces (MIC-3665-A), or dual fiber interfaces (MIC-3665-B).

The Gigabit Ethernet fiber interfaces are integrated with a Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and are designed to meet customers' requirements for high-performance and long distance data transmission.