The MX98L715BEC controller is an IEEE802.3u compliant single chip 32-bit full duplex, 10/100Mbps highly integrated Fast Ethernet combo solution, designed to address high performance local area networking (LAN) system application requirements. MX98L715BEC's PCI bus master architecture delivers the optimized performance for future high speed and powerful processor technologies. In other words, the MX98L715BEC not only keeps CPU utilization low while maximizing data throughput, but it also optimizes the PCI bandwidth providing the highest PCI bandwidth utilization. To further reduce maintenance costs the MX98L715BEC uses drivers that are backward compatible with the original MXIC MX98715 series controllers.