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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: FX 210/018
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 January 2007
Serial switch embeds in standard VXS
chassis
Concurrent Technologies has released a VXS packet switched serial fabric board, the FX 210/018, to operate alongside its range of VMEbus VXS packet switched single board computers.
Concurrent Technologies has released a VXS packet switched serial fabric board, the FX 210/018, to operate alongside its range of VMEbus VXS packet switched single board computers The FX 210/018 is an "unmanaged" embedded 1000Mbit/s baseband IEEE802.3 switching platform, conforming to VITA 41.3, providing a low- cost low-power packet-switching solution for voice/datacommunications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Typically consuming less than 16W it supports eighteen payload boards, an inter-switch link and up to four Ethernet ports on the front panel.
The switch core contains a wire-speed, Layer 2, quality of service (QoS) switch fabric.
The FX 210/018 supports VITA 38 system management, user configuration port and hot insertion/removal to the backplane.
Extended temperature variants are also available, including -40 to +85C.
Typical applications include networking equipment, VoIP telephony systems, data management and multiple blade servers.
Using the Marvell Prestera 98DX240 single chip serial switch device, the FX 210/018 sustains full duplex full wire speeds on all 24 ports.
Ports 1 to 18 are used for connection to the VXS payload boards.
Port 19 and port 20 form a x2 serdes inter-switch link to connect to a second FX 210/018 board for switch redundancy or load balancing.
And, optionally on the front panel, ports 21 to 24 are via four gigabit Ethernet interfaces or ports 21 to 22 are via two 1000Base-SX multimode optical fibre interfaces.
The switch device "learns" and caches up to 8192 MAC addresses in its forwarding database.
The switch can handle time-critical/multimedia traffic such as voice, video and data as it uses four hardware priority queues (fixed or fair-weighted) per port and supports a range of QoS traffic classifications: port ID, IEEE802.1p and IPv6.
The board's health and status can also be monitored via an IPMB0 interface to an onboard microcontroller, providing system management support compatible with VITA 38.
For applications that require an embedded serial switch in an industry standard VXS chassis, the FX 210/018 provides a reliable low power switch.
The payload boards govern the operating system requirements.
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