100mbps multi-port fiber card for Sol10?

Does anyone know of a multi-port fiber card (PCI) with Solaris 10 support that supports 100Base-FX ? We have a requirement to provide 4 such ports for a customer, and are having a tough time finding such a beast. We can use either quad-port or 2 dual-port cards, but we don't have enough available PCI slots to use 4 single-port cards.
Basically, we're looking for something similar to this, but with support for Solaris 10:
http://www.aei-it.com/hardware/fastenet/p430fx.htm
We've been informed by the vendor that these only support up to Sol 8. We're working on getting eval units in, but are wondering if anyone has used anything similar in the past?
Thanks!
Eric

Due to customer specification constraints, media converters/switches are unacceptable. :( First thing we thought of, too. Also, 3 of the 4 ports are connecting to 100mbps digital hardware boards via UDP, so the mixed speeds probably wouldn't work out if we were to use gigabit fiber.
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