PRODUCT BRIEF
VSC7442
52-Port L2/L3 Enterprise and Industrial Ethernet
Switch
Vitesse’s next generation switch family delivers a flexible
Enterprise and Industrial Ethernet solution.
The VSC7442 SparX-IV-52™ device is a 52 Gbps SMB/SME Industrial
Ethernet switch with up to 52 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports.
The device provides a rich set of Enterprise Ethernet switching features.
Using multistage Vitesse TCAM technology (VCAP™), it delivers VLAN and
QoS processing that enables delivery of differentiated services, security
through intelligent frame processing, and egress frame manipulation.
For industrial applications, VSC7442 integrates VeriTime™, Vitesse’s
patent-pending distributed timing technology that delivers the industry’s
most accurate IEEE 1588v2 timing implementation.
Highlights
• Single-chip 52 Gbps switching
solution
• Fully managed L2 switching and L3
forwarding features
• Industrial temperature range
• Easy upgrade within SparX-IV
family to higher bandwidths
including 10 GbE port support
Applications
• Fully managed L2/L3 switch
• Industrial Ethernet switch
A powerful 500 MHz CPU enables full management of a Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switch solution.
A comprehensive application programming interface (API) and software development package accelerates
time-to-market for managed Ethernet applications. The software API package integrates easily with third-party
software, preserving existing software investments.
52 × 1 GbE Managed L2/L3 Switch
4 × SGMII
VSC7442
SparX-IV-52™
52-Port Switch
QSGMII
QSGMII
QSGMII
QSGMII
VSC8522
12-Port PHY
VSC8522
12-Port PHY
VSC8522
12-Port PHY
VSC8522
12-Port PHY
12
RJ-45
12
RJ-45
12
RJ-45
12
RJ-45
Copper
Copper
Copper
Copper
VSC7442
Features
• 12 × QSGMII ports + 4 × 1G SGMII ports (main
configuration)
• Additional 10/100/1000 Mbps SGMII/SerDes node
processor
• Integrated 500 MHz MIPS 24KEc CPU with MMU and
DDR3/DDR3L SDRAM controller
• PCIe 1.x CPU interface
• Internal shared memory buffer (8 queues per port)
• Jumbo frame support
• Strict priority and DWRR scheduler/shaper
Multicast
• Layer 2
• IPv4 and IPv6
• IGMP and MLD
Industrial Ethernet
• Integrated timing: VeriTime™ (1588v2) and SyncE
support
• Ethernet ring protection switching (ERPS)
Key Specifications
• 27 mm × 27 mm FCBGA
• –40 °C to 110 °C operating temperature
Layer 2 Switching and Layer 3 Forwarding
• 802.1Q VLAN switch with 32K MACs and 4K VLANs
• Push/pop/translate up to three VLAN tags on ingress
and egress
• Policing with storm control and MC/BC protection
• RSTP and MSTP support
• Independent and shared VLAN learning (IVL, SVL)
• Hardware- and software-based learning
• TCAM-based classification and VCAP-II security
• Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing
Related Vitesse Products
Visit
www.vitesse.com
for information about these related
Vitesse products:
• SparX-III nonstackable GbE switches with integrated
copper PHYs
• VSC8512 and VSC8522 12-port copper PHYs
• Unified API, WebStaX™, and SMBStaX™ software
Shared Queue System
QoS, Flow Control, Buffer Management,
Discard Service Statistics
L2 and L3 Forwarding
Shapers and Schedulers
Policers
Arrival Service Statistics
SyncE
MIPS CPU
DDR3
Memory Controller
TCAM-Based Editing
Translation, Remarking,
Departure Service Statistics
JTAG, SPI
GPIOs
TCAM-Based Classification
QoS, ACLs
Port Modules
PCIe
1G SGMII
100BASE-FX
1G SGMII,
2.5G SGMII
QSGMII
XAUI/RXAUI
100BASE-FX
1G SGMII
2.5G SGMII
SFI
100BASE-FX
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