NETGEAR GA621 Reference Manual page 9

Fiber gigabit ethernet card

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• Duplex SC fiber connector for 62.5-micron or 50-micron multimode fiber cable

• Interoperability with existing Fast Ethernet equipment compliance with the

following standards and protocols:

– IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet

– IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet

• Standard Ethernet frame size (up to 1,518 bytes)

• Jumbo frames support

• 33/66 MHz, 32/64-bit PCI bus master (Local Bus Revision 2.2 compliant)

with adaptive DMA channels

• Two independent DMA channels for simultaneous read and write operations;

as a bus master, the network card requests access to the PCI bus instead of

waiting to be polled

• Software driver support for Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows NT,

Windows 2000, Windows Me, NetWare 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, and Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1,

6.2, 7.0 and 7.1.

• Universal dual-voltage signaling (3.3 V and 5 V)

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