Installation manual

ISI3334/4 Hardware/Driver Installation Manual

1.1 Introduction to the IntelligentSerialInterface

The new IntelligentSerialInterface card, the MultiModemISI, is a

hardware solution for adding fast serial ports to communication

servers and async hosts that have 16-bit ISA-bus architecture. Serial

ports are essential to communication servers, which pool modems

and other communication devices for users on a LAN, and to

asynchronous hosts that provide user access through serial ports.

The MultiModemISI integrates ISI mutiport and

Enhanced

V.34

modem technology on a single board. It is a "full sized" add-on card

which supports a high-speed interface up to 115.2K bps per port.

This card has multiple

Enhanced

V.34 (33.6K bps) data/V.17 (14.4K

bps) fax modems providing high speed buffering for multiple serial

ports.

This manual contains product specification, installation instructions,

and technical support information which will assist you in the

installation process. It is assumed that you have basic PC skills at

the very least. Therefore, we have not included step-by-step

instructions for such basic operations as logging in and file editing,

etc.

1.2 Product Description

The MultiModemISI is ideally suited to use in PC networks

environments because it provides an integrated hardware solution

for remote access for both Windows NT and Novell-based LANs. In

particular, to ensure smooth Novell network integration, the

MultiModemISI ships with a NetWare Loadable Module for NetWare

Connect

communication servers that enable it to support state-of-

the-art features such as remote dialing and modem pooling. And,

the MultiModemISI easily integrates into the Windows NT platform

since it fully supports Microsoft's Remote Access Server software.

This allows it to comfortably operate with popular network protocols

such as TCP/IP and NetBIOS. The MultiModemISI ships with drivers

for other multiuser operating systems such as SCO

UNIX

, SCO

Xenix

, and SCO UNIXWare

The MultiModemISI includes an Intel 16 MHz 80186 proccesor and

256K of RAM that work dynamically to allocate resources to the

most active modems.