UniSpec™ WAN Cards & Drivers
ImageStream's patent-pending UniSpec™ WAN interface technologies represent a significant breakthrough in WAN card and device driver design. The UniSpec design implements a universal hardware module with one Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface and one WAN interface. The WAN interface module is "universal" because it can be used in stand-alone USB applications, or it can be deployed in PCI, PCI Express, and other bus applications using the appropriate carrier card.
There are many advantages to the UniSpec designs. For example, the universal WAN interface modules use USB to minimize costs in terms of board size, logic, and pin count. UniSpec also makes it possible to achieve larger economies of scale, not only because a common WAN module is used across multiple buses, but also because a common carrier card for each bus will support any of the available WAN modules. This innovative design makes UniSpec the most flexible and price-competitive WAN card technology on the market. But hardware is just the beginning.
The UniSpec platform provides universal device driver support that works transparently with any bus architecture. Each WAN interface module includes a USB interface that is natively supported by all modern operating systems. Whether you use Linux, Windows, or another OS, the USB interface to each WAN module provides a universally supported serial interface to the OS. This means that a single UniSpec device driver can be installed to support native USB operation, and the same device driver will also support additional buses, such as PCI and PCI Express, in tandem with the native OS support for these buses.
While different UniSpec device drivers are needed to support different operating systems, only one driver is needed to support deployment on multiple buses under each OS. This strategy not only simplifies driver development for ImageStream and its OEMs, but it also expands the number of embedded applications that are supported by a single development or integration effort. This means OEMs can integrate UniSpec WAN cards into their PCI applications, and deploy the same hardware modules and device drivers into USB and PCI Express applications, with no additional software development.
The UniSpec breakthrough opens new doors for developers of embedded networking applications. With other network cards, you may find PCI and PMC support in a single device driver, but this is because PCI and PMC are the same bus at the driver level. With UniSpec, USB is used as the common bus, which makes it possible to deploy WAN modules across multiple bus architectures using a single driver specification. This is how ImageStream's UniSpec WAN interface technology can deliver the most flexible WAN card platform available at the lowest prices in the industry.
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