Solvline PCIe - Manual (Page 7)

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Strength of MultiPort
Strength of MultiPort
The merit of MultiPort is easy and economic to install and maintain.
Meantime LAN has high speed to transmit data, but the more devices connected and users are
involved the more crashes among the transmitted data happens. Once such crashes happens
far more times than some level then the transmitting efficiency is declined suddenly. But it is
possible to realize Read Time without any distance limitation by applying MultiPort because it is
1:1 communication and transmitting capacity can be kept constantly even if several dozens of
port were connected.
At the same time the speed of asynchronous communication is being improved along with the
advanced technique of hardware day by day, so not necessary to worry about the
communication speed.
There are 2 types of MultiPort-Dummy and Intelligent. Dummy MultiPort is the one which has no
processor by itself. It is better in economical viewpoint than Intelligent one in case of smaller
volume in transmitting data and fewer number of port connected to system. Usually it is more
efficient to use Dummy MultiPort when the number of port is not exceeding 32. Meantime
Intelligent MultiPort is rather efficient when required to transmit large volume of data due to its
fast processing speed as it has processor by itself. Furthermore it is possible to connect several
hundreds port to a system, but costs high.