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FM4000 Series - 10G Enhanced Ethernet Switch-Router

The FocalPoint FM4000 series of switch devices contain up to 24 10GbE ports and utilize a high performance, low latency Ethernet switch architecture including a comprehensive suite of Layer 3 features along with advanced classification, congestion management and system management capabilities. These switches contain all the features necessary to enable Ethernet as the single, converged Data Center fabric, transporting inter-processor, storage and networking traffic. The FM4000 products provide many advanced features which are listed below.

The devices in the FM4000 series include:

Notes:

• The ports identified as "10G XAUI, SGMII" can be independently configured to operate at 10G rate (XAUI or CX4), or at 10M, 100M, 1G, and 2.5G rates (using the SGMII standard).
• The ports identified as "SGMII" can be independently configured to operate at 10M, 100M, 1G, and 2.5G rates, using the SGMII standard.

Features

• Performance
  
  • 300ns latency with ACLs and routing enabled
    
  • Up to 24 XAUI (CX4) interfaces
    
  • Each interface supports 10/100/1000/2500 SGMII
    
  • Cut-through and store-and-forward modes
    
  • 360 million packets per second
    
• Layer 3
  
  • IPv4, IPv6 lookups
    
    • Up to16K IPv4 entries; up to 4K IPv6 entries
      
    • 16K-entry ARP table
      
    • Fully-provisioned multicast routing
      
    • Full VLAN replication with multicast routing
      
  • ACL support
    
    • L2/L3/L4 awareness
      
    • Up to 4K extended ACLs
      
    • Egress ACLs supported
      
• Layer 2
  
  • 16K-entry MAC table
    
  • Jumbo packet support up to 16,376 bytes
    
  • Fully provisioned multicast
    
  • Multiple Spanning Tree (802.1D, s, w)
    
  • Independent and shared VLAN learning
    
  • Extensive 802.1Q VLAN support
    
• Switch virtualization and scaling
  
  • Single point of management
    
  • Remote learning
    
  • Fat trees, meshes, rings
    
  • Multi-chip mirroring
    
  • Multi-chip LAG, 16 ports/group, 256 groups/system
    
• Convergence capabilities
  
  • Line rate classification
    
    • L2/L3/L4 traffic classification, metering, and policing
      
    • 802.1p, IPv4, IPv6 DSCP
      
  • Advanced IEEE congestion management
    
    • 802.3x class-based (multi-color) PAUSE flow control
      
    • 802.3ar rate control
      
  • Partitionable shared memory ensures traffic separation
    
  • Flexible, multi-level scheduling
    
  • 200 ordering queues
    
• Security
  
  • Port-based security (802.1X)
    
  • MAC address security
    
  • DOS prevention
    
• Switch management
  
  • MDIO, GPIO, I2C, SPI interfaces
    
  • JTAG, and Serial LED interfaces
  • Unmanaged mode

Benefits

• Reduces per-port cost of 10G Ethernet
  
  • Simplifies and accelerates system design
    
  • Reduces component count
    
  • Accelerates the deployment of 10G infrastructure
    
• Enables new performance-sensitive applications
  
  • Blade computing, with RDMA
    
  • Computer room clusters and mesh-based systems
    
  • ATCA chassis architectures
    
• Enhances existing applications
  
  • Efficient aggregation of enterprise LAN traffic
    
  • Drives the cost out of stackable Ethernet switches
    
  • Efficiently mixes voice, video, and data traffic
    
  • Offers unprecedented multicast performance
    
• Enables convergence in the Data Center
  
  • Partitioned hardware ensures traffic separation
    
  • Enhanced flow control provides lossless fabric
    
  • Storage and compute traffic can safely co-exist
    
• Simplifies system-wide management
  
  • Extensive monitoring offers clear visibility
  • Single point of management reduces complexity