1-2 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Product Features
The 3C971-F adapter supports the following features:
■ 155 Mbps SONET OC-3c over multimode fiber
■ AAL5 ATM adaptation layer
■ Switched virtual circuit (SVC) software driver
■ UNI 3.0/3.1 standard signaling for switched virtual
circuit (SVC) connections
■ ATM Forum standard LAN emulation client
■ LAN emulation configuration server capability
■ Communication with up to four LAN emulation
servers
■ PCI Local Bus specification revision 2.1 compliance
■ 32-bit, zero wait-state PCI DMA master
■ Up to 64-byte burst transfers
■ PCI commands that support efficient use of cache
lines
■ Dual-function memory management for cell-FIFO or
on-board packet reassembly
■ Hardware-based segmentation and reassembly
(SAR) functions
■ EEPROM for initialization parameters (configuration
space and IEEE address)
■ LEDs for software status and active line