Features

• 20-port 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Switched Fabric Board:
  • compatible with PICMG 2.16 Packet Switched Backplane (PSB)
  • 19 PSB Ethernet ports for PSB node boards
  • PSB Ethernet port for fabric board interconnect link
    
• Low cost, low power, high performance switched fabric:
  • full line rate Layer 2 switching engine
  • supports up to 8K MAC addresses with automatic learning and aging
    
• Auto-negotiation on all Ethernet ports:
  • 1000Mbps full-duplex
  • 10/100Mbps full-duplex and half-duplex
    
• Speed and Link/Activity status LEDs on all Ethernet ports
  
• Non-volatile EEPROM storage for board and Ethernet switch configuration data
  
• Fabric Switch Configuration software
  
• Hardware support for Quality of Service (QoS):
  • 4 priority queues per port
  • variety of classification services
  • fixed priority or weighed packet streams
    
• IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface):
  • PICMG 2.9 (System Management Specification)
  • access to network management registers
    
• Ruggedized air-cooled version (RA-Series) planned:
  • -40°C to +75°C, and conformally coated
• Non-ruggedized air-cooled versions available:
  • rear plug compatible with the ruggedized version
  • useful for bench development
  • use in commercial (non-rugged) applications
• Supports hot insertion and removal
  
• Single slot, 6U CompactPCI form factor