TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR User Manual

FCC Warning

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with
the regulations for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part
15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protection against harmful interference when the
equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This
equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency
energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with this
user’s guide, may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. Operation of this equipment in a
residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in
which case the user will be required to correct the
interference at his own expense.

CE Mark Warning

This is a Class B product. In a domestic environment, this
product may cause radio interference, in which case the user
may be required to take adequate measures.

VCCI Warning

This is a product of VCCI Class B Compliance

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for choosing the 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit
Ethernet Card for 32-bit PCI Bus-equipped personal
computers. The 32-bit PCI 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit
Ethernet Card is ideal for speeding up data transfers for
network servers and other computers, such as those used
for video-conferencing, that send and/or receive large
amounts of data. The 32-bit PCI 10/100/1000Mbps
Gigabit Ethernet Card also includes the newest
networking technologies, such as multicasting support,
that use network bandwidth more efficiently and further
help the card maximize data throughput.

Features

u IEEE 802.3, 802.3u and 802.3ab compliant
u Support 32-bit 33/66Mhz PCI Local Bus Master

high-speed operation of Rev.2.1/ 2.2/ 2.3
specification

u Plug-and-Play installation
u One RJ-45 connector: Auto detection of 10Mbps

Ethernet, 100Mbps Fast Ethernet and 1000Mbps

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Gigabit Ethernet & Auto MDI-X

u Supports IEEE802.1Q VLAN tagging
u Supports 10/100/1000Mbps Auto-negotiation

operation

u Full Duplex support for 10/100/1000Mbps data

rates

u Auto MDI-II/MDI-X crossover for all three

speeds

u Built-in FIFO (8K/64K) buffers reduces

overhead of memory transfers

u 802.3x Full duplex flow control, including

automatic transmission of Pause frames based on
Rx FIFO thresholds

u Two LED indicators for easy diagnostic

Gigabit Ethernet Technology

Gigabit Ethernet is an extension of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
utilizing the same packet structure, format, and support
for CSMA/CD protocol, full duplex, and management
objects, but with a tenfold increase in theoretical
throughput over 100Mbps Fast Ethernet and a one
hundred-fold increase over 10Mbps Ethernet. Since it is
compatible with all 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet

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environments, Gigabit Ethernet provides a
straightforward upgrade without wasting a company’s
existing investment in hardware, software, and trained
personnel.
The increased speed and extra bandwidth offered by
Gigabit Ethernet is essential to coping with the network
bottlenecks that frequently develop as computers and
their busses get faster and more users use applications
that generate more traffic. Upgrading key components,
such as your backbone and servers to Gigabit Ethernet
can greatly improve network response times as well as
significantly speed up the traffic between your subnets.
Gigabit Ethernet enables Twisted-Pair cable
connections to support video conferencing, complex
imaging, and similar data-intensive applications.
Likewise, since data transfers occur 10 times faster than
Fast Ethernet, servers outfitted with Gigabit Ethernet
NIC’s are able to perform 10 times the number of
operations in the same amount of time.

Fast Ethernet Technology

The growing importance of LANs and the increasing
complexity of desktop computing applications are

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