Description:

 

The ENET48xx 40Gbps Carrier Ethernet Swtich is a family of high performance configurable flow based processor and traffic manager solutions optimized for the Carrier Ethernet Market.The ENET48xx Fabric Flow Processors (FFP) integrates packet processing, protocol interworking, traffic management, and a Layer 2/3/4 switch.

 

Ethernity’s ENET48xx Fabric Processor family is optimized for the Carrier Ethernet Metro market. Compliant with the latest ITU-T and Metro Ethernet Forum specifications the ENET48xx is uniquely positioned to deliver an optimal solution for Ethernet Aggregators, PON OLTs, Mobile backhaul, edge and core Carrier Ethernet Switch and Router (CESR).

 

The ENET48xx FFP design is based on an extremely efficient architecture resulting in 80% die size reduction, and enabling an extremely cost effective implementation based on low cost FPGAs. The Ethernity ENET48xx solution retains the flexibility and programmability of FPGAs, while providing a solution that is cost and power competitive with an ASIC solution.

 

The ENET48xx protocol interworking includes software support for packet editing, which provide the ability to receive packets in any format and change the protocol per virtual output port to any other protocol, hence it supports Ethernet II, SNAP, Q-in-Q, PBB, MPLS-TP,GRE, L2TP, and other programmed by the user.

 

Detailed Features:

 

Classification

 

• Identifies flow and assign several flow IDs per stream, based on 36 flexible /programmable fields including TCP, UDP, IP address, MAC, port number, L2 header, LSP, or based on information available in the first 128 bytes of each frame

• Assigns packet priority based on Ingress priority mapping configuration.

• Up to 32K flows filter for any classified packet based on the set of rules and set of the 64 configurable fields

 

Switching and Routing

 

• Fully IEEE 802.1Q compliant Ethernet switch with up to 256K Ethernet MACs, and 16K Active Network TAGs/streams comprising from VLANs, AAL5, QTAG, MPLS or other packet fields programmed by the software and up to 4K Multicast groups.

• Configuration forwarding/switching decision per flow including connection oriented , L2, L3 or L4 forwarding decision

• 32 software programmable / configurable search tables

• Configurable forwarding key and learning key per flow

• Force association of specific MAC to a certain logical port and service.

• 16K L3 address for supporting L3 forwarding

• Partitioning of MAC address per VPNL2

• Control packets classifier for both user and Network L2 control protocol packets

• Flexible forward decision per port per protocol with the ability to forward transparently, to CPU or Discard

• Support include ARP, DHCP, IGMPv2, IGMPv3 and other based on flexible configuration options

 

Quality of Service (QoS)

 

• Hierarchical QoS with 3-5 hierarchies

• Eight priority queues per  virtual port  

• Priority Assignment per Port, 802.1p tag, MPLS (LLSP or ELSP), L3 DiffServe Code Point (DSCP) or TOS

• Configurable L3/L2 Priority profiles per portIngress and Egress priority mapping per flow

• Ingress and Egress priority mapping per flow

 

Policing and Shaping

 

• Extended Metering according to Three Color scheme as defined by MEF 10 including color aware and coupling flag modes configured per flow

• Supports up to 16K flows

• Each ingress and egress flow can be configured in a granularity of 64Kbps up to 100Mbps

 

Traffic Management

 

• Support of Jumbo frames up to 16KB

• Congestion manager: per queue, 8-profile WRED congestion avoidance with 8 programmable profiles

• Hierarchical MEF 10 Metering – on port/service/flow level - any combination of them can be mapped to a specific meter

                           - 64K meters, with Granularity of 64Kbps

• Re-marking – based on L3 or L2 information decoded from the packet or set by the service or the flow or the filter

                           - Color marking can be done on 3 packet header hierarchies

                           - Packet color can be mapped from any header/field decoded from the packet or set by the service/flow/filter

• Scheduler: hierarchical, three level scheduler per MEF10

                           - Port – WRR  :   Up to 256 ports per interface

                           - logical port (cluster) - WFQ, WRR, Strict Priority: Up to 8K logical queues

                           - Priority queue - WFQ, WRR, Strict Priority : 8 Priority queues per logical port/ queue

• Queue manager

                           - Virtual Output Queues architecture

                           - Total of 64K Queues

                           - Unlimited MC Burst support

                           - Configurable Buffer size

• Shaper per queue and each hierarchy – packet, cell or byte level

• Performance monitoring counters for billing and diagnostics - forward/drop packet and bytes green/yellow/red

• Configurable MTU per priority queues or per cluster 

• Programmable values for drop level

• Strict priority and dedicated low jitter scheduling

• 4 scheduing hierarchies

• TCP Friendly Algorithm implemented

 

Packet Editing

 

• Extract, append, or swap in the egress any type of Layer 2/3/4 headers programmed by software, including, Q-In-Q,  PPPoE, PPPoA, ATM to Ethernet (AAL5), PPP, HDLC, L2TP,L3,  or any other header up to 128 bytes, controlled and configured by software.

• L2 and L3 loop backs including swap of MAC SA and DA, Swap of IP.

• Stamp data at the bit/byte level anywhere within the first 128 bytes including priority remapping, bytes count, sequence ID and DSCP.

 

OAM/CFM

 

• Integrated packet generator and analyzer to support OAM packet per MEF 17, Y.1731, and 802.1ag, 802.3 ah including per flow BERT

• Rate limitation and filtering of OAM messages and other BPDUs to prevent network attacks

• L2/L3/L4 control packets classifier for both user and network L2 control protocol packets per flow

• Hardware processing for L2, L3 Loop backs (swap L2 SA/DA, swap L3 SA/DA)

• Fast protecting switching within micro seconds

• ELPS G.8031, ERPS G.8032

• 802.3ah Link OAM

                         - Link loopback

                         - Unidirectional link fault detection 

                         - Threshold-based monitoring and notification

• 802.1ag end-to-end Service OAM and CFM

                         -  Supports 64 levels of maintenance domains and Maintenance End Points (MEP)

                         - Up to 512 Maintenance Associations

                         - Connectivity Check Messages (CCM)

                         - Remote Defect Indication (RDI)

                         - Link trace

                         - Diagnostic loopback

• Integrate packet generator and analyzer to support generation and analyzing of OAM packets and full support for Y.1731

• Y.1731 Performance Monitoring

                        - Frame delay

                        - Frame delay variation (jitter)

                         - Frame loss — AIS

 

Synchronization over Packet  

 

• 1588 End to End Transparent Clock1588v2 

• Slave mode clock recovery through third part software

• Synchronous Ethernet

 

L2 Control Protocol 

 

• L2 Control packets classifier for both user and Network L2 control protocol packets

• Flexible forward decision per port/flow per Protocol with the ability to forward transparently, to CPU or Discard

• OAM packets classifier for both user and Network including support for 802.1ag

• Flexible forward decision per port per OAM type with the ability to forward transparently, to CPU or Discard

 

IGMP Proxy

 

• IGMP V2 and V3 compliance

• IGMP packet snooping to processor in the U/S direction

• Forwarding and multicast classification based on Source IP and Destination IP

 

DDR SDRAM Interface

 

• External 16-bit DDR2-SDRAM 400 MHz interface

• Supports 128/256/512Mbit 16 bit width standard PC DDR2 SDRAM components

 

Host CPU Interface

 

•  OptionMotorola PowerPC 1&2 Glueless interface

• Up to 66Mhz with 8/16/32 bit bus width

• MII interface

 

 Interfaces 

 

Flexible up to 40Gbps

 

Reference Design Kit