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ETHERNET: Overview
10 Gigabit Ethernet is the latest development of Ethernet, the most popular technology today for local area networking. Ethernet has experienced multiple improvements over the past 25 years, going from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet) and recently to 1 Gbps (GbE). Today, a 10 Gbps Ethernet (10 GbE) is being developed to meet the increasing bandwidth needs of the LAN market and to take Ethernet out into the storage, metro and wide-area networks. The migration to 10 Gbps Ethernet is an economically viable path since it uses the same frame format as 10M/100M/1G Ethernet. This allows the leveraging of existing, ubiquitous Ethernet installations, the Ethernet management tools and the people already trained in Ethernet. Ultimately 10 Gbps provides a solution with easy integration and low cost of ownership.

ETHERNET: News

TranSwitch Introduces EtherMap-PDH Device for Extending Ethernet to the Last-mile for Wireline and Wireless Applications

TranSwitch® Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC), a leading provider of high-speed semiconductor solutions for voice, data and video communications, today announced the EtherMap®-PDH, a flexible...  >>  

Vitesse Extends Leadership in Gigabit Ethernet with First 600 mW Gigabit Ethernet PHY

Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: VTSS), the market leader in Gigabit Ethernet ICs, today unveiled the 600 mW SimpliPHY™ VSC8601 and VSC8641, the industry’s lowest power and most...  >>  

Vitesse G-RocX SoC Enables CyberTAN to Deliver Industry's First Production-Level Home-Gateways for the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Market

To deliver the industry's first production-level EPON FTTH Residential Gateway, CyberTAN, a leading Taiwanese original design manufacturer of broadband networking equipment, is using Vitesse...  >>  

TranSwitch's PacketTrunk-4 Plus Serves as Building Block for TDM Circuit Emulation over IP, MPLS, and Switched Ethernet

TranSwitch® Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC), a leading provider of carrier-class semiconductor solutions for voice, data and video communications, today announced the PacketTrunkTM-4 Plus, a...  >>  

Fulcrum Launches World's First Low-Latency IP Router Chips

Fulcrum Microsystems today announced six new members of its industry-leading FocalPoint family of 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch chips – adding high-performance routing with its FM4000-series devices.  >>  

ETHERNET: Blogs

10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch ICs Move Into Prime Time

By Asif Hazarika, Fujitsu Microelectronics America A few years ago no one knew how fast the 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch technology would be adopted and deployed. There were questions about which applications would be first to move to 10Gb Ethernet. But no longer ­ the market is here, and so is the technology.  >>  

ETHERNET: Semiconductor Solutions

High Performance Single Chip Low Power 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Physical Layer Transceiver (PHY)

The SMSC LAN83C185 is a low-power, highly integrated analog interface IC for high-performance embedded Ethernet applications. The LAN83C185 requires only a single +3.3V supply. [from SMSC]  >>  

PC Connectivity Solutions

Today’s media-rich communications across the Internet and within organizations are creating new demands on clients and servers in Local Area Networks (LANs). Organizations expect their client... [from Marvell]  >>  

10/100 Ethernet Transceiver

The STE10/100A is a single chip Fast Ethernet solution for PCI bus adapter applications. It is a high performance, low power 3.3V PCI Fast Ethernet controller with integrated physical layer... [from STMicroelectronics]  >>  

TLK2208B - Octal Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver

The TLK2208B is the third generation of Gigabit Ethernet transceivers from Texas Instruments combining high port density and ultralow power in a small form-factor footprint. The TLK2208B provides... [from Texas Instruments]  >>  

Micrel...Delivers Reliable Industrial Ethernet Solutions

Micrel’s Ethernet Group delivers numerous field-proven components for use in industrial applications, from embedded Ethernet applications and fiber/copper media converters to cyber apartment... [from Micrel]  >>  

Gigabit & 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Vitesse provides Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs), and Contract Manufacturers (CMs) cost-effective, turnkey Gigabit Ethernet solutions addressing the...  >>  

ETHERNET: Application Resources

Ethernet Network Interface for ADSP-BF535 Blackfin Processors

Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Mbit/s over standard copper cables is now available. For most applications, the 10Mbit/s or the 100Mbit/s version is sufficient to transport user data between a server and...  >>  

10-Gigabit Ethernet Switch Applications in the Enterprise

This paper describes the capabilities of the technology and profiles the implementation of 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches using Fujitsu silicon solutions. Such switches are among the most crucial...  >>  

Running Two Network Interfaces with ADSP-BF537 Blackfin Processors

This EE-Note describes how to simultaneously run two network interfaces with ADSP-BF537 and ADSP-BF536 Blackfin® processors. This description and all testing are based on a hardware setup...  >>  

Freescale - MSC8144 Ethernet Performance - Maximizing QUICC Engine Throughput

This application note explains how to configure and run Ethernet-based applications on the MSC8144 DSP to maximize performance and minimize overhead. The example code in the .zip file that...  >>  

A Beginner's Guide to Ethernet

This EE-Note provides an overview of the Ethernet specification and some popular protocols that can be used “on top of” an Ethernet driver. The goal is to provide the reader with the...  >>  

10-Gigabit Ethernet Switch Applications in ATCA

To help standardize building practices for future platforms, the telecom market is moving toward adopting the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA). The availability of silicon solutions...  >>  

AMCC's Pemaquid device enables the cost-effective implementation of Metro-Ethernet for Optical-Based Metro and Long-Haul Transport Networks

For some time now Ethernet has been the protocol of choice in the enterprise, home, and mobile infrastructure for transporting Internet Protocol (IP) data, voice, and video over Local Area Networks...  >>  

Micrel: Fast Ethernet: Delivery of Data in Industrial Applications

When Ethernet is introduced into an industrial setting,an existing Ethernet switch or hub is used in a star configuration from the multiport swich to many destinations. Customers need more nodes...  >>  

Intel Whitepaper: The New Ethernet

This Intel white paper provides information on the trends in Ethernet technology towards Gigabit speeds, Wireless networking, Networked storage, Ethernet in the metropolitan area network. It...  >>  

ETHERNET: Reference Designs

Cavium Networks Works with Broadcom to offer Comprehensive Set of Intelligent Switching Reference Designs

Cavium Networks has announced a comprehensive set of reference designs targeted at intelligent switching and broadband applications. These reference designs will utilize Cavium’s...  >>  

Coldfire-Based Ethernet Router

In today's highly competitive router market, a router for home or small office home office (SOHO) use must be cost-effective, feature rich, and perform in multiple modalities. Freescale...  >>  

Virtex-5 LXT FPGA Gigabit Ethernet Development Kit

The Virtex™-5 LXT FPGA Gigabit Ethernet Development kit supports 10/100 Mbps and 1 Gbps speeds. This complete development kit enables you to rapidly create and evaluate designs for Ethernet...  >>  

IEEE 1588 Compliant Industrial 802.3 Switch Reference Design - RD-133

This development board demonstrates an 8-port switch with IEEE1588 clock synchronization implemented in an Altera FPGA with embedded NIOS 32-bit processor. It utilizes a 32 bit NIOS II embedded...  >>  

PMC-Sierra Announces GPON ONT Reference Design

PAS65311 GPON ONT Reference Design features PMC-Sierra's GigaPASS(TM) architecture, the only ONT solution already deployed in millions of PON devices. It includes a fully featured ITU-T G.984...  >>  

The 10G EPON Evaluation Kit Reference Design

The 10G EPON Evaluation Kit is a complete reference design for 10 Gbit/s, IEEE 802.3av-compliant, EPON Optical Line Terminals (OLT) and Optical Network Units (ONU).  >>  

ETHERNET: Web Seminars

o-- Xilinx -- Accelerate Delivery of Built-in Ethernet Solutions Using Xilinx FPGAs and Gigabit Ethernet Development Kit

The Xilinx Virtex™-5 LXT/SXT families of 65nm FPGA incorporate four built-in tri-mode Ethernet MACs with integrated serial transceivers. Whether you are an experienced designer or just...  >>  

Solutions for 10GBASE-KR Backplane Connectivity Applications

The IEEE Std. 802.3ap(tm)-2007 defines a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) serial backplane connectivity (10GBASE-KR). Primary applications for this include blade servers, high performance computing...  >>  

ETHERNET: Related Articles

24-Port GbE Multilayer Switch with Four 10-GbE/HiGig+ Ports

The BCM56504 is one of 5 chips within Broadcom's 500 Series of next-generation StrataXGS® III switch solutions. Based on four prior generations of highly-integrated and cost-effective...  >>  

L2-L7 CLASSIFIER & SWITCH WITH EMBEDDED MEMORY

Zarlink’s ZL33032 Ethernet ClassSwitch is a highly integrated 24 FE + 4 GE port device that reduces design cost and complexity while speeding time-to-market for network access equipment that...  >>  

20 Gbit/s chip handles Ethernet traffic

The TME-2000 is a Traffic Manager with integrated switching and processing, optimized for a wide range of Metro applications. It supports up to 20 Gbps of switching with per-flow traffic...  >>  

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