Designed for zero downtime tolerant applications within industrial automation, medical imaging, and telecommunications markets, the CP3-Quad100TX is a full hot swap capable, 3U CompactPCI card with four independent 10BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet interfaces. The cardÕs 64-bit/66 MHz PCI interface supports 66 MHz host systems with no degradation of backplane performance, the company says. The card supports combined data rates of up to 800 Mb/s full duplex and 400 Mb/s half-duplex, and facilitates back-to-back transmission with minimal interface latency by employing 3 Kbytes of transmit and 3 Kbytes of receive FIFO for each port. Suited for small rack-mounted systems, the list price is $899. SBS TECHNOLOGIES INC., St. Paul, MN. (651) 905-4700
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