Multi-Tech Systems ISI5634PCI/4/8 - Manual (Page 6)

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ISI5634PCI/4/8 User Guide
Introduction
Welcome to the world of data communications. You have acquired one
of the finest intelligent data and fax modems available today from one
of America’s oldest and most respected modem manufacturers—Multi-
Tech Systems, Inc.
The new IntelligentSerialInterface card, model ISI5634PCI is a
multiport serial port expansion card with four V.90/K56flex modems.
The card’s capability can be doubled by adding an auxiliary module,
which also contains four modems. It is an excellent hardware solution
for adding fast serial ports to communication servers and async hosts
that have 32-bit PCI bus architecture.
Serial ports are essential to
• Communication servers that pool modems and other
communication devices for users on a LAN
• Asynchronous hosts that provide user access through serial
ports.
The ISI5634PCI ships with drivers for the following multiuser operating
systems: Windows ® 2000, Windows NT, versions 3.51 and 4.0;
Windows 95 , Windows 98, and Windows Me; Novell Netware
versions 3.x and 4.x.; SCO Open Server 5; and Linux.
The IntelligentSerialInterface card can be combined to support
asynchronous serial devices (local or dial-up). The ports can be used
to connect basic terminals with or without multiple pages of memory to
multiplexer channels and asynchronous modems. Each ISI5634PCI port
can support as many screens as there are physical pages of memory on
the terminal. In Windows 95/98/Me, a built-in autodetect utility enables
detection of Multi-Tech modems and sets the proper initialization
strings.
ISI5634PCI Modems
The ISI5634PCI modems incorporate V.90/K56flex ™ technology, which
enables Internet connections at data rates up to 53 Kbps over standard
telephone lines. V.90/K56flex technology is able to send data
downstream from the Internet to your computer at these speeds
because data on the telephone network typically is converted from