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PCI-X 4-Port 10/100/1000 Quad Gigabit Ethernet, 64-bit

AEI Intelligent Technologies' PCI-X quad port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (AEI-1400C) is designed to deliver high performance, and high reliability for demanding applications, as well as legacy Fast Ethernet connectivity.  It provides a full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet connection on a Universal Short Card .  The Gigabit Ethernet interfaces provides unparalleled server throughput that helps reduce administrative complexity by replacing multiple slower interface cards with a single Gigabit adapter.  

 

AEI's adapters are the perfect solution for a cost effective, instant performance boost over existing Category 5 UTP copper cabling.  It also offers scalability for those contemplating future upgrades to Gigabit technology.

As a Server Class Adapter Card, the AEI-1400C supports Windows and Linux Advanced Server Features (Trunking, and Failover).

Moreover, the AEI-1400C can be user configured to enable or disable IRQ Coalescing.  That is, all four ports share one interrupt, or IRQ.  This is a particularly useful feature in port density applications such as firewalls and cluster environments.

Design Characteristics

The AEI-1400C supports and auto-negotiates between 32/64-bit, and 33/66/100/133 MHz datapaths. Built with PCI-X technology, the AEI-1400C supports standard PCI 2.1 and 2.2 specifications, and also PCI-X motherboards for clock speeds into the 133 MHz range.  It is uniquely designed with integrated magnetics, low profile surface mount resistors and capacitors, high precision oscillator, and other high-end discrete components.  The result is a card that is highly reliable, resistant to damage, fault tolerant, and performance that is unparalleled.  The AEI-1400C is fully interoperable with existing Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet hubs, switches and routers.   

 

Jumbo Frame

The Gigabit adapter is configurable to support Jumbo Frame (9KB)

 

Advanced Server Features
AEI's Gigabit adapters utilize the popular Intel 82546 chipset, which comes with numerous advance server features built into its architecture. Hardware acceleration offloads tasks from the host processor including TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation.  Link aggregation, failover, and load balancing are offered, and the adapter is also fully compliant with Gigabit EthernetChannel and Fast EtherChannel trunking algorithms.   (switch dependant 802.3ad [LACP] )

 

Features

  • Ten times the throughput of standard Fast Ethernet cards.

  • Nway auto negotiation / automatic sensing and switching between 10 Mbps / 100 Mbps/ 1000Mbps AND  half or full duplex operation.

  • Easy to install and configure.

  • Half or Full Duplex operation.

  • Three speed 10Mbps (10Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx), or 1000 Mbps (1000Base-T)

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

  • DMA Bus Mastering for lower CPU utilization.

Applications

  • Firewalls and other Internet Security Appliances

  • Internet Service Providers and Web Hosting Servers.

  • Proxy, application, file, and print servers.

  • SOHO to Enterprise network environments.

  • Storage Area Networks (SAN)

  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)

  • Network segmentation (for network security purposes)

  • Gateways and routers.

Specifications (PCB Rev D.4 or greater)

 

Configurations

AEI-1400C
PCI-X 10/100/1000 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC 

 

AEI-1400C-EXT... Extended Temperature Model

User Manual
 

Connector Quad RJ-45(f)
IEEE Standards IEEE 802.3 (10Base-T Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3u (100Base-Tx Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3ab (1000Base-T Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3ad (Port Aggregation)
802.1Q (VLAN)
802.1x (Flow Control)
802.1p (Layer 2 Priority Encoding QoS)
802.1z

Fast EtherChannel (FEC) and Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) supported.

Interrupt Coalescing Yes.
Trunking & Failover IEEE 802.3ad  Port Aggregation and Failover.
Also, compatible with features contained within the Windows and Linux operating systems. 
Boot ROM Support Yes
Speeds, Cable & Distance Ethernet, 10Base-T  (Cat 3, 4, 5 UTP)
Fast Ethernet, 100Base-Tx  (Cat 5 UTP )
Gigabit Ethernet, 1000Base-T (Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, and DataTwist 600e)

Distance up to 100 meters maximum
For Gigabit transmissions, recommend use of Belden Cable's DataTwist 600e.
Suggested reading for Gigabit cabling:  AEI whitepaper 2003-01-21

Duplex Half or Full Duplex operation capable.

Auto-negotiation / NWay

Auto-negotiation between Full duplex and simplex operations AND between 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and 1000 Mbps.

Data transfer Mode DMA Bus Mastering
LEDs Activity/Link:
      Link: Turns on
      Activity: Blinks
100Mbits/s
1000Mbit/s
Slot Type PCI v2.2 32/64 bit, 33/66Mhz
PCI-X v1.0 32/64-bit, 66/100/133MHz
3.3V or 5V slot
Interrupt Levels INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD
Bus Type PCI-X 1.0 compliant, backwards compatible to PCI 2.1 & 2.2
Driver Support

ODI, NDIS, Packet driver for various network operating systems including:
LANtastic,  LAN Server, NetWare, OS/2, Windows and Linux.

Device Drivers

  • Microsoft Windows

  • Solaris 2.7 and higher (x86)

  • Linux 2.4.x kernel and up.

  • DOS, OS/2, ODI

  • Novel NetWare 4.11 and higher

  • UnixWare 7.x and OpenUNIX 8

  • FreeBSD 4.5 kernel

  • VxWorks Tornado Rev. x.x

Certifications RoHS Compliant
Environment Specs Temperature: operating 0C to 50C
Humidity: 0 to 90% non-condensing

Extended Temperature Model (AEI-1400C-EXT)
Operating Temperature:  0C - 65C

Dimensions 6.9" (L) x 4.2" (H)
Universal Short Card
Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF): 147 (Years)
*According to Telcordia SR-332 Issue 1
Environmental condition – G B (Ground, Fixed, Controlled). Ambient temperature - 25 ° C. Temperature rise of 10 ° C above the system ambient temperature was assumed for the cards components.
Certifications FCC Part 15, Subpart B - Class A; CE; CISPR-22-A; CISPR-22-B, VCCI-A; CSA 22.2 No. 950-95; and CE compliant to: EN55024, EN50082-1, EN60950
Power Consumption

Operating Voltage: 3.3VDC/5VDC
 

Consumption:

  • 3.7A at 3.3V: Typical all ports operating at 1000Mbit/s.

  • 1.7A at 3.3V: Typical all ports operating at 100Mbit/s.

  • 1.5A at 3.3V: Typical all ports operating at 10Mbit/s.

  • 1.4A at 3.3V: Typical no link at all operating at 10Mbps.