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The 3Com Impact Family: High-speed dial-up network
access and easy installation.
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3Com Impact ISDN external
digital modems and ISA
adapters are easy to install
and use, and give you the
fastest dial-up network
access at speeds of
up to 128 Kbps.
The 3Com Impact family of high-
performance ISDN adapters and
modems deliver today’s fastest
dial-up network access. Using
Multilink PPP (Point-to-Point
Protocol), 3Com Impact digital
modems and adapters transmit
information at speeds up to 128
Kbps, four times faster than the
fastest analog modem.
The 3Com Impact ISDN external
digital modem gives your
Macintosh or IBM-compatible PC
high-speed Internet or remote
LAN connectivity, along with an
analog port for simultaneous
voice, fax, and data capability.
The 3Com Impact ISDN ISA
adapter connects directly to your
PC’s internal data bus for maxi-
mum throughput and emulates an
Ethernet adapter to give you full
compatibility with corporate
LANs.
Look to the 3Com Impact ISDN
external digital modem and ISA
adapter family for:
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Fast dial-up access. With
Multilink PPP, the 3Com Impact
ISDN modems and adapters com-
bine both ISDN B channels into a
single 128 Kbps data pipe to give
you a dial-up Internet or LAN con-
nection at four times the speed of
the fastest analog modems.
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Easy to install. 3Com Impact
products come with step-by-step
graphical installation software for
ease of installation. 3Com Impact
ISDN adapters and digital modems
support the plug-and-play standard
so, there are no jumpers or switch-
es to set.
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Optimized for your application.
Choose the ISDN platform that
meets your needs: the 3Com
Impact ISDN external digital
modem connects to your comput-
er’s serial port to give you simulta-
neous voice, fax, and data. The
3Com Impact ISDN ISA adapter
attaches directly to our PC’s inter-
nal ISA bus to give you maximum
throughput—128 Kbps.
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Standards compliance. The
3Com Impact ISDN external digi-
tal modem, certified for use in
North America, supports both the
V.120 protocol and Async-Synch
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PPP conversion, ensuring compati-
bility with Internet service
providers and remote access
servers. The 3Com Impact ISDN
ISA adapter ships with standard
LAN drivers to support popular
operating systems over IP, IPX,
and NetBEUI protocols. And it
supports a variety of international
ISDN signaling standards.
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Third-party software support.
3Com Impact ISDN external digi-
tal modems support most stan-
dards-based dial-up communica-
tions software. 3Com Impact
ISDN ISA adapters support a
range of third-party software,
including NetWare 3.x., 4.x., LAN
Manager,
™
and Windows for
Workgroups 3.11.
