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CHAPTER

Product Overview

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ “Product Description” on page 1

■ “Features” on page 2

■ “Hardware and Software Requirements” on page 3

Product Description

The Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface adapter is high-speed serial

interface (HSI) adapter for PCI applications and is referred to as the SunHSI/U

adapter in this manual. The adapter offers comprehensive hot-plug compatibility

with Solstice WAN software packages available through Sun. The SunHSI software

is a transparent interface on the SunHSI/U adapter, providing a compliant

environment for SunLink WAN packages operating on similar Sun communication

modules.

The SunHSI/U adapter (see

FIGURE 1-1) is an intelligent, four-port communication

controller with onboard CPU and memory dedicated to WAN communication

functions. This architecture operates much more efficiently at high data rates than

unintelligent WAN modules. Onboard intelligence allows the workstation or server to

be off-loaded from many of the low-level communication tasks that it must perform

when there is no native intelligence on the controller.

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