The new Kontron PCIe Medical LAN Card will find applications in hospitals, rehabilitation centers,
doctor’s offices, and anywhere where medical devices are connected to conventional workstations or
to high-availability archiving, backup, and storage solutions. In order to transmit data between medical
devices and systems via Ethernet to non-medical devices in an office or hospital network, the LAN
card needs a galvanic separation according to the IEC60601-1 standard, which has already been
engineered into the new Kontron PCIe Medical LAN card.

The PCIe 2.0 compliant Kontron PCIe Medical LAN Card is suitable for installation in any PCI
Express® x1 compatible card slot. Matching slot brackets for full-height or low-profile assembly are
included. The long-term available Kontron PCIe Medical LAN Card features either one or two isolated
Ethernet 1000Base-T interfaces on RJ45 connectors. Both variants are based on the Intel® 82574L
GbE controller, which ensures a particularly high level of compatibility and high transfer rates.

Availability:

The Kontron PCIe Medical LAN Card is available now. Operating system support is provided for all
Windows operating systems from Windows XP/Windows 2000 on and also for Linux Kernel from
2.4.18 on.