Planet Technology FT-1105A Network Card User Manual


 
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Chapter 1 OVERVIEW
Thank you for choosing the Smart 10/100Base-TX to 100Base-
FX Media Converter, The Media Converter introduced here
provides one channel media conversion between 10/100Base-TX
and 100Base-FX.
About the Redundant Media Converter
The FT-1105A and FT-1205A are 3-Port Redundant Media
Converters which support conversion between 10/100Base-
TX and 100Base-FX network. Different with the other one-port
channel media converter, the Redundant Media Converters are
designed for critical networks that require ber or copper link
auto recover less than 10ms, such as ISP, telecom, hospital,
banking and enterprise. The two models of PLANET Redundant
Media converter as following:
FT-1105A: 10/100Base-TX copper to two 100Base-FX ber
link redundancy
FT-1205A: 100Base-FX to two 10/100Base-TX copper link
redundancy
Via the built-in DIP-switches, the two models can be congured
as 3-Port Ethernet switch or 2-Port Redundant media converter.
With the 3-Port switch mode, they work in high performance
Store and Forward mechanism, also can prevent packet loss
with IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Full-Duplex) and Back Pressure
(Half-Duplex).
With 2-Port redundant Mode, it provides less than 10ns
link redundancy for highly critical Ethernet applications.
The redundant-mode supports auto-recover function. If the
destination port of a packet is link down, it forwards the packet
to the other port of the backup pair.
The Redundant Media Converters - FT-1105A and FT-1205A,
support conversion between 10/100Base-TX and 100Base-FX