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Xelerated samples AX family of programmable ethernet switches
Brian Fuller8/23/2010 5:10 PM EDT
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Xelerated today (Aug. 23) began sampling its AX family of programmable Ethernet switches, targeting unified fiber access and mobile backhaul.
The AX family (AX340, AX240, AX310, AX210-see chart below) integrates Ethernet MAX, switching, programmable packet processing and traffic management to enable unified processing of subscriber sessions and OAM functions.
Key features:
System designers in the fiber access market are still designing such switches in house as ASICs, especially when they’re trying to achieve higher speeds, according to Per Lembre begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Xelerated's director of product marketing. (Lembre and a colleague demonstrate the product in the videos below).
“Customers want to implement new features as quickly as possible,” he said. “With a programmable device, you do it right on the card. We can upgrade the data plane through a software upgrade.”
At the core of the AX is Xelerated’s wirespeed data flow architecture, a single pipelined, fully deterministic approach that includes:
Xelerated earlier this year announced sampling of a 100G network processor, the HX family, which competes with high-speed network-processing products from EZ Chip. The AX family takes into account cost considerations in the fiber-access market. (An overview video of the two families is embedded below).
“They need to get the cost right first because the competition is out there,” Lembre said of access OEMs, adding the biggest emerging markets for the technology are in Japan and China.
Pricing: On request
Availability: Sampling now.
For more information, please visit http://www.xelerated.com/en/ax/.
The AX family (AX340, AX240, AX310, AX210-see chart below) integrates Ethernet MAX, switching, programmable packet processing and traffic management to enable unified processing of subscriber sessions and OAM functions.
Key features:
- Supports gigabit Ethernet (GE), 10GE, EPON, GPON, XGPON and 10 GEPON.
- 100GPS and 150 Mpps programmable packet processing
- 10-88 Gbps duplex line card/pizza box single-chip configurations
- Supports XAUI, XAUI+ and SPAUI system interfaces
- Accompanied by Unified Fiber Access (UFA) data plane software
System designers in the fiber access market are still designing such switches in house as ASICs, especially when they’re trying to achieve higher speeds, according to Per Lembre begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Xelerated's director of product marketing. (Lembre and a colleague demonstrate the product in the videos below).
“Customers want to implement new features as quickly as possible,” he said. “With a programmable device, you do it right on the card. We can upgrade the data plane through a software upgrade.”
At the core of the AX is Xelerated’s wirespeed data flow architecture, a single pipelined, fully deterministic approach that includes:
- Packet instruction set computer (PISC) processor core
- A special i/o unit called engineer access point (EAP) to unify access tables stored in memory
- Execution context, packet-specific data including the 256 bytes of the each packet, general purpose and device registers and condition flags.
Xelerated earlier this year announced sampling of a 100G network processor, the HX family, which competes with high-speed network-processing products from EZ Chip. The AX family takes into account cost considerations in the fiber-access market. (An overview video of the two families is embedded below).
| Product | GE i/f |
10GE i/f |
1-2, 5GE (GPON) |
Traffic Manager |
| AX340 | 48 | 12 | 16 | Deep-buffer in external DRAM |
| AX240 | 32 | 10 | 16 | Deep-buffer in external DRAM |
| AX310 | 48 | 12 | 16 | Internal buffer |
| AX210 | 32 | 10 | 16 | Internal buffer |
“They need to get the cost right first because the competition is out there,” Lembre said of access OEMs, adding the biggest emerging markets for the technology are in Japan and China.
Pricing: On request
Availability: Sampling now.
For more information, please visit http://www.xelerated.com/en/ax/.
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