Overview:

 

Ethernity Networks ENET38xxRD is the Reference designa and evaluation board  kit for ENET38xx . It comes with on board 4 x SFPs , single XAUI and two PTMC connectors to accommodate all the interface options of the ENET3xxx.

 

As the ENET architecture supports non blocking switching between all port/interfaces, the optional interface for the PTMC connector can be used for Network or user side use

 

The ENET38xxRD demonstrate the configurable interface options offered by ENET38xx and can be used by Telecom Equipment Manufactures (TEM) as an Edge modular multi service platform that can accommodate many user interfaces options.

 

The ENET38xx can be used to Support 8 GbE user face ports and single XAUI ( 4 x SFPs on board + 4 GbE on one of the PTMC board) together with SPI-3 up link port, that serve for connectivity to EoS mappert and then can be connector to OC-48 SONET mapper.

Further more instead of 4GbE interface located on one of the PTMC module , one can connect 8 E1/T1 CES module, or another OC-12 SONET model with CES functionality , such that the module will be connected to main board through SGMII/RGMII.

 

And finally the board can be used for a pure Carrier Ethernet Switch and Traffic Manager, equipped with 12 GbE port (4 on board and additional 8 through the connectors)

 

 

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Hardware Elements

 

• A single low cost FPGA

• 4x SFPs on board ports

• Two PTMC connectorssingle XAUI on board

• On-board DDRs for packet memory, search and parameters entries

• Motorola MPC852T Power QUICC-I environment

• 32MB (option up to 128MB) SDRAM on the 32-Bit Address and Data bus.

• 32MB Code Flash and 1MB Boot Flash

• RS232 and FE ports for Out-of-band management

 

Software support

 

• OS independent

• Linux and Vx works operating system support

• LSP – Linux Support PackageSoftware download via ftp

• Efficient Boot Loader provides flexible and fast software updates

• CLI – Command Line Interface accessible via Serial Port and remote Telnet client

• Full API support

• SW Adaptor to upper layer carrier Ethernet application on control stack

 

Reference Design Package

 

Ethernity's ENET38xx is built for easy evaluation and product development with the ENET38xx device. The reference design includes all necessary documentation and collateral information to accelerate product development and minimize time-to-market.

 

Reference design package documentation includes:

 

• Hardware architecture

• Bill of Materials

• Software manuals

• Schematics

• Board Reference Manual

• Application Notes

• Data sheets

• CLI document

• API document