Description

The ALLOY-1440LST is a PCI 100Base-FX Network Adapter. It has an ST connector, and provides a maximum 2 kilometres range over multimode cable. The adapter is fitted with a low profile bracket, and a standard height bracket is also supplied.

The ALLOY-1440LST is a 100Base-FX Network Adapter which supports up to 2 kilometres range over multimode fibre optic cable. The card is installed in a PCI bus slot, and has an ST type port connector. The card has a low profile PCB, and is fitted with a low profile bracket to suit computers of this type. A standard profile bracket is also included in case the adapter is re-deployed to a standard form factor PC.

The ALLOY-1440LST is a member of Alloy's 1440FX Series of PCI bus 100Base-FX Network Adaptors, designed for modern high reliability managed fibre networks. These adapters are compliant to PCI 2.2 and will support PCI buses with either 5V, 3.3V or dual voltage standard PCI, 64Bit PCI or PCI-X slots. Utilising a Via 6105M Rhine chipset, 1440FX Series Adapters provide Advanced Management and Power Conservation features, and enable configuration of advanced features such as Priority Queuing to increase multimedia transfer speeds, VLAN tagging for security, TCP/UDP checksum offloading from the host CPU and adaptive interrupt handling to handle heavy network loads more efficiently. Advanced power management features include low power consumption from the 0.22 micron designed 6105M controller. The 1440FX series comprises both multimode, singlemode and singlecore/singlemode WDM models offering a variety of port connector type. Multimode fibre optic models support a maximum range of 2 kilometres, whilst singlemode models can be purchased with up to a maximum of 60 kilometres range. WDM models enable transmit and receive data streams to be multiplexed over a single fibre core. All models can support a PXE BootROM, and individual models can be ordered with the BootROM pre-installed, with either a low or standard profile bracket fitted.

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