P100 Series

Legacy PCI 100Base-FX Fiber Optic
Fast Ethernet Card

Specification Sheet (pdf)

NSA CERTIFIED ACCREDITED

AEI’s P100 offers a cost effective solution for high performance fiber optic networks.  It is an ideal solution for high electro-magnetic environments; for time-sensitive transmissions, such as voice and video; or where cable lengths exceed 100 meters. Moreover, fiber optic networks offer resistance to tapping.

The P100 Series offers significant performance and power improvement over media converters.  According to David Pacifico with the US Navy, "We were able to significantly improve network performance by eliminating media converters and installing the P100."  Additionally, since the P100 Series is powered by the PCI Bus (3.3V or 5V), power consumption is dramatically reduced when compared to media converters that use double or more the power.  From an integration perspective, the necessity to power-up a media converter using wall-power or hardwiring is eliminated.

It utilizes the popular Intel 21143-PD chipset, which means the device driver is embedded and fully plug and play in Windows, Linux, and other operating systems.  The P100 includes driver support across a broad range of operating systems and architectures including Windows, Solaris SPARC, HP-UX (10.20, 11), Linux, IRIX, NetWare, FreeBSD, and more. This comprehensive driver suite allows for one-stop shopping, and uniformity in your fiber optic network.

Additionally, AEI Intelligent Technologies is the only company that incorporates Boot Rom support on their fiber optic Fast Ethernet cards.  Support is provided for Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and many popular operating systems.  Thus, the P100 Series offers OEM's compatibility with distribution servers, and ease of installation.

More and more, companies have learned the advantages of speed and security that fiber optics provides. AEI’s P100 Series is a perfect solution for any fiber network.

Advanced Server Features - with every adapter comes AEI's PacketEngine Software suite.  PacketEngine allows users to configure trunk groups based on the Physical Layer 1 (Port aggregation), as well as Layer 3 and Layer 4 criteria.  A user friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides for Active Port Failover (all ports in the failover group Tx/Rx packets) Windows, Linux, Solaris, and other popular operating systems.  Finally Adaptive or Dynamic Load Balancing is provided.  Please, contact us for available OS and revision support.

Features

• SC or ST fiber optic transceivers.

• 62.5/125 and 50/125µm multimode fiber optic cable.

• Supports cable lengths up to 2 km.

• No media converters... lower power consumption and expense.

• Only fiber optic Fast Ethernet card for Sun Microsystems Solaris SPARC platforms.

• Compatible with other brand 802.3u network equipment.

• EMI resistant.

• Resistant to tapping.

• DMA Bus Mastering, Lower CPU Utilization

• Easy to install and configure.

• Half or Full Duplex operation.

• Maximum throughput is 200Mbps.

• Cross Platform support for a broad range of operating systems and architectures.

• DMA Bus Mastering for lower CPU utilization.

Applications

• Proxy, application, file, and print servers.

• Desktop and server environments on fiber optic backbones.

• SOHO to Enterprise network environments.

• Storage Area Networks (SAN)

• Network Attached Storage (NAS)

• Network segmentation (for network security purposes)

• Firewalls, gateways and routers.

Specifications