Vitesse Semiconductor Expands Gigabit Ethernet Portfolio with Industrial Grade E-StaX-34 SoC

Vitesse Semiconductor, a provider of advanced IC solutions for carrier and enterprise networks, has reportedly introduced an industrial grade E-StaX-34, a 28-port switch-on-a-chip (SoC) product, to its portfolio of Ethernet switch solutions.

 

Vitesse provides customers with reference systems, including turnkey hardware and software packages. The company recently launched crosspoint switch devices that enable 2x speed and bandwidth improvement in data center switches and network storage equipment.

 

With the introduction of this new version of E-StaX-34, Vitesse now offers extended temperature range (-40°C to 100°C) support for Gigabit Ethernet switch solutions from 5- to 28-ports.

 

E-StaX-34 features 24 X 10M/100M/1G SGMII/SerDes ports plus four 10M/100M/1G/2.5G SGMII/SerDes ports, targeting stand-alone switches up to 28-ports and stackable switches up to 384-ports, respectively.

 

E-StaX-34 provides timing and synchronization support for industrial and telecom applications such as wireless backhaul.  It also features fast failover protection mechanism to meet the most stringent telecom network requirements.

 

The new solution is suitable for industrial environment like factory automation, production machine control or outdoor telecom system applications and enables OEMs and ODMs to extend Ethernet switch and PHY solutions beyond traditional Local Area Network (LAN) environments as well as the ability to implement a 10-fold increase in the communication rate by implementing gigabit per second switching speeds.

 

Vitesse E-StaX-34 is built on the SparX family feature set. E-StaX-34 includes additional features such as the Vitesse Content Aware (News - Alert) Processor (VCAP), a Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM)-based engine that delivers wire-speed packet inspection, frame filtering, rate limitation, snooping, redirect, mirroring, and accounting functionality.

 

The solution also includes an advanced prioritization engine (QCL), essential to triple-play solutions and high-quality video distribution and enables application-based traffic prioritization by providing higher priority to real-time traffic, such as voice and video transmissions, officials said.

 

“With constant innovation, integration and cost-effective solutions that our world-class OEM and ODM customers require, Vitesse continuously raises the Ethernet switch technology bar,” said Martin Olsen, product marketing manager for Vitesse.