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SX PCI Serial Cards

The SX PCI Serial Card is designed for multi-user systems and remote access server (RAS) environments, where high performance, reliable and expandable serial communications solutions are required. The SX serial card provides users with an intelligent, expandable connectivity system for 8 to 128 serial devices such as modems, printers, E-POS devices, industrial control and management peripheral devices.

Features and Benefits

• Universal 3.3/5v PCI and PCI-X solutions
• 8 to 32 ports expanding to 128 ports per server
• EIA-232 (RS-232) or EIA-422 (RS-422) interfaces
• Windows, Linux, Unix and Solaris Operating System Support
• Bi-directional speeds up to 921.6 Kbps on all ports
• 15Kv ESD provides protection against electrostatic discharges and power surges
• RISC based
• Lifetime Warranty

Flexible Connectivity

The SX Universal PCI serial card consist of PCI adapter cards and external 8 port SX Device Concentrators available with a range of connectors for RS232, RS422 and parallel printer applications. The system is easily expandable up to a maximum of 32 ports when 4 Device Concentrators are used. Up to 4 adapter cards can be installed per system giving a total of 128 serial ports.

High Performance

With fully balanced throughput across multiple ports, each configurable up to a maximum of 921.6 Kbps/sec., the SX serial card is a high performance solution ideally suited for ISP and enterprise remote access applications. Full modem control combined with hardware/software flow control ensures total data integrity, even from remote sites. In addition, to ensure exceptional reliability in harsh environments, all signals, on every port, are ESD protected as standard.

The SX PCI Host Card is PCI 2.3 compliant and approved for 2000 and NT environments. Windows®2000 and NT users benefit from PortDirector, a graphical configuration and monitoring utility included with the NT driver.

Applications

• Retail Point of Sale: Cash registers, receipt printers, bar code scanners, etc. need to be connected to back office servers
• Medical: Connect bed-side health monitors in hospitals to central nurse stations.
• Transportation:  Connect Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) Equipment, Radar, Infrared Vehicle Scanners, Receipt printers and message signs in Toll Collection Systems
• Manufacturing:  Access serial devices for factory, industrial and warehouse automation
• Kiosks:  Connect internal modems, touch screens, receipt printers, keyboards, etc inside coin counting machines, gas station pay stations and airport check-in’s
• Education:  Access control (door entry) systems with 100’s card and/or badge readers, monitor computer room usage
• Connect modem pools for remote access dial-in/dial-out

Class Leading Support and Warranty

Perle SX Serial Cards are backed by the best service and support in the industry, including Perle’s unique lifetime warranty. Since 1976 Perle has been providing its customers with networking products that have the highest levels of performance, flexibility and quality.

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