FRITZ!Card Ready for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

FRITZ!Card Ready for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

BERLIN, Germany, December 1/PRNewswire/ --

- FRITZ!Card Now With 64-bit Drivers



- FRITZ!Card Supports AMD's and Intel's 64-bit Platforms



- Active ISDN-Controllers Also Have Native 64-bit Support



64-bit drivers for all current FRITZ!Card ISDN and ADSL products are now
available for downloading from AVM. The Berlin communications specialist is
among the first company to integrate its products in the Microsoft operating
system "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition." The new drivers support both
AMD's and Intel's platforms, AMD64 and EM64T. Both the AVM drivers and the
Microsoft operating system itself are currently available as beta versions.



64-bit Drivers for FRITZ!Card ISDN and FRITZ!Card DSL



AVM now provides 64-bit CAPI drivers for all the current FRITZ!Card DSL
products, in addition to the 64-bit drivers for its ISDN-Controllers
FRITZ!Card PCI and FRITZ!Card PCMCIA, which were released in October. All of
these drivers are available now for AMD's and Intel's 64-bit platforms, AMD64
and EM64T. As a result, FRITZ!Card owners are well prepared for the 64-bit
Microsoft operating system, which is expected to be released in the coming
year. Because the drivers also support existing 32-bit programs, a wide range
of applications is available right from the start.



Active ISDN-Controllers Also Have Native 64-bit Support



64-bit driver software for AVM's active ISDN-Controllers B1, C2 and C4,
has long been available to integrate these cards in Microsoft's "Windows
Server 2003 x64 Beta" operating system, and is included on the Microsoft
installation CD. 64-bit CAPI support for the same active ISDN-Controllers in
Linux is also available in the "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for
AMD64/Intel EM64T" system.



Downloadable from www.avm.de



The drivers, currently released as an unsupported beta version, can be
obtained free of charge from the AVM download area, and can be installed on
the 64-bit "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" operating system, which is
likewise currently available in a beta release. Integrated ADSL NDIS WAN and
PPPoE drivers, or an ISDN (Co)NDIS WAN driver, are installed with the 64-bit
driver versions for the appropriate FRITZ!Card products - as in the past with
the AVM drivers for 32-bit operating systems. This makes Internet access
convenient to set up, both for ADSL and for ISDN lines. The installation
itself is performed, as usual, with the Windows Hardware Wizard. For more
detailed information on installing and using the drivers, please see the
Readme files supplied with the software. AVM welcomes feedback during the
beta phase: users can send e-mail to amd64@avm.de.



About AVM



AVM products connect the PC to ISDN and ADSL to permit fast Internet
connections and economical telephone service. For wireless links, the Berlin
communications specialist exploits both Bluetooth and WLAN wireless
technologies. For Internet telephony, or "Voice over IP", users connect their
existing telephones to AVM products. In addition to its applications for the
professional sector, AVM's FRITZ! family of products is extremely popular.
All FRITZ! products are complete hardware and software solutions developed by
AVM. Available as internal cards, USB adapters and PBX systems, the FRITZ!
products undergo continuing development, providing true added value. FRITZ!
products have received many awards in the IT press, commending both their
ease of use and the high security standards they fulfill from the word go.



Founded in 1986 in Berlin, AVM earned sales of EUR150 million in 2003
with 460 employees.




Contact:

Urban Bastert
Head of Public Relations
AVM GmbH
Alt-Moabit 95, 10559 Berlin
http://www.avm.de
Tel.: +49-(0)30-399-76-214
Fax: +49-(0)30-399-76-640
Mail u.bastert@avm.de



Source: AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH

Urban Bastert, Head of Public Relations, AVM GmbH, http://www.avm.de, Tel.: +49-(0)30-399-76-214, Fax: +49-(0)30-399-76-640, Mail u.bastert@avm.de


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