[ale] PCI-e multiport serial cards

Chris Ricker kaboom at oobleck.net
Mon Jan 29 08:04:06 EST 2007


On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> Computone - haven't heard of them in years.  Used many of their products
> - never much cared for them even though they were based in Norcross.
> 
> One vendor I had a lot of respect for doing serial was Stallion
> Technologies.  They're an Australian company.   We did a major rollout
> for a large hotel chain and started with Computone then moved to
> Stallion.   They had a modular product that allowed you to extend number
> of ports and distance from the server by daisy chaining them together.
> 
> Looking in Google it seems they're still around and have some PCI
> products.  They might be worth a look.

Stallion is Lantronix now, and they don't make PCI-e either

Sounds like I'm heading into brave new territory ;-)

later,
chris



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