sync serial cards

[Chuck Guzis]

On 6/9/2006 at 5:18 PM Ethan Dicks wrote:

>I am unaware of a PCI-based sync serial card.  I think by the time
>that PCI was becoming dominant, most folks who wanted a 56K line to
>the outer world wanted it to speak ATM or ppp (not Bisync or SNA),
>thus it was reasonable to offload that task to a TCP/IP router.  There
>are *plenty* of models of Cisco router that you can hang a CSU/DSU off
>of, but I don't recall ever seeing that done with a PCI-based machine.

They''re out there!  Here's one from Quatech:

http://www.quatech.com/catalog/rs232s_pci.php

Cheers,
Chuck