While more and more LAN nodes are connecting to 100Mbps nowadays, a super high speed and cost-affordable solution becomes more and more anticipated. OvisLink contributes a Gigabit-over-Copper NIC to the market in order to satisfy the demands. With standard Category 5 cables, small and medium-size businesses upgrading their networks to Gigabit rates now have got the powerful and cost-effective solution. The migration with Ethernet or Fast Ethernet LANs is as convenient as possible through the existing Cat. 5 wiring system. 

Packet descriptors and data are transferred via bus mastering, reducing the burden on the host CPU. The adapter supports full duplex 2000 transmission and reception.

The adapter WOL is compliant with PC98, PC99 and OnNow.

• Compliant with IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T standard 
• Compliant with IEEE 802.3 and 802.3u standard 
• PCI local bus 2.2 specifications 
• 32-bit or 64-bit PCI bus master operation 
• Wake on LAN (WOL) is compliant with PC98, PC99 
• Supports PCI clock speed up to 66/33Mhz 
• 802.3x Full duplex flow control
• 802.1d and 802.1q priority queueing support
• Support TCP/IP checksum offload and TCP segmentation offload
• Standard Cat. 5 cable capable 
• Plug and Play installation with support for Windows NT and Windows 2000
• ACPI v1.0 and PCI Power Management Specification v1
• 3.3V powered I/Os with 5V tolerant inputs
• Support all major network operating systems:

Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 95, 98, Windows Millennium, Windows 2000, XP, Novell Netware 4.2 and 5, Sun Solaris™, SCO Unixware®, and Linux™(kernel 2.2 and 2.4)

Modern enterprises and organizations rely more and more on LANs to provide network connectivity for a growing variety of complex and mission-critical desktop applications.The increasing multimedia transmission on networks, such as video-conferencing or remote white boarding, and also the converging trend to integrate voice, video and data on a single physical infrastructure are all contributing to more bandwidth-intensive traffic. 

The growing use of 100Base connection, however, is creating a clear need for an even high-bandwidth technology at the backbone and severs level. 

As higher bandwidth has been deployed more and more at the edge of the network, bandwidth at the backbone must increase considerably to accommodate the aggregate traffic. It turns out that the most suitable solution is Gigabit Ethernet. 

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