AMTELCO Announces NEW XDS H.100 PCI MC3 UltraLite Board

McFarland, WI - February 2001 - AMTELCO is pleased to announce the new XDS Infinity Series H.100 PCI MC3 UltraLite Multi-Chassis Interconnect board. The XDS Multi-Chassis Interconnect boards make it possible for developers to expand their applications beyond a single chassis, allowing for maximum system expansion.

For communication between as many as five chassis, the XDS H.100 PCI MC3 UltraLite board can provide fully dynamic timeslot switching from one chassis to another. Communication between the XDS board and the software application is accomplished through dual-ported RAM. The multi-chassis bus includes a total of 2,423 timeslots, allowing up to 1,211 full duplex connections between either local or off-site locations. The board utilizes an OC3 fiber optic ring to connect between two and five chassis, which may be located up to 2,000 meters apart. Driver support for Windows® NT®, Windows 2000, Unixware, SCO Unix, and Linux is available.

AMTELCO also offers an XDS MC3 Lite board, along with the standard XDS MC3 boards for applications that require dual fiber rings for fallback capabilities, or for systems needing to expand to 20+ chassis. The XDS MC3 Lite board includes all the capabilities of the MC3 UltraLite board, along with a second counter-rotating fiber ring for full ring fallback configurations. The standard MC3 Multi-Chassis board includes all the features of the MC3 Lite board (including the dual fiber rings), as well as 128 ports of enhanced conferencing and an analog music-on-hold port.

The XDS H.100 PCI MC3 UltraLite board is fully compatible with other XDS products, including the XDS MC3 ISA board, and other H.100 compliant products. This H.100 board can be used with MVIP or SCSA boards with an XDS H.100 to MVIP or H.100 to SCSA Interface connection. AMTELCO fully supports compatible products from the multi-vendor integration manufacturers.

For more information on the AMTELCO XDS Infinity Series H.100 PCI MC3 UltraLite Multi-Chassis Interconnect board, call (800)356-9224 or (608)838-4194.