VSC7398

· 8 Gigabit Ethernet ports with nonblocking wire-speed performance
· 8 tri-speed (10/100/1000 Mbps) copper transceivers (IEEE 802.3ab compliant), 2 of which (multiplexed internally) can be used as tri-speed (RGMII/GMII) interface
· 176 kilobytes on-chip frame buffer
· SNMP and Web-based management with either V-Core CPU (on-chip 8051 CPU with royalty-free, Web-managed software stack) or off-chip 8-bit CPU
· DSCP remarking for both IPv4 and IPv6 frames
· Jumbo frame support at all speeds (10/100/1000 Mbps)
· Programmable multilayer classifier with 4 QoS classes
· 8 k MAC addresses and 4 k VLANs (IEEE 802.1Q), as well as 8 k IP multicast group support
· Flexible link aggregation support based on Layer-2 through Layer-4 information (IEEE 802.3ad)
· Full-duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3X) and half-duplex backpressure, symmetric and asymmetric
· Multicast and broadcast storm control, as well as flooding control
· Multiple protocol support: IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.1s, and IEEE 802.1X
· Wire-speed automatic learning and aging
· Vitesse VeriPHYTM cable diagnostics and SimpliPHYTM magnetics technology

VSC7398 SparX-G8e is the highly integrated, singlechip Gigabit Ethernet switch with 8 Integrated GbE Copper PHY ports. As part of the Vitesse SparXTM Family of Switches, SparX-G8e delivers high performance with easy migration paths, and comprehensive system solutions that enable ultrashort time-to-market and market-leading system cost.