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FM2000 Series

FM3000 Series

FM4000 Series

FocalPoint software

FocalPoint platforms

The use of multiple fabric technologies within industry-standard platforms extends the range of applications that can be addressed, but tends to fragment the market. Fulcrum is betting that by eliminating the latency issues with Ethernet switching, the vast ecosystem that surrounds Ethernet will drive much-needed consolidation.

Simon Stanley,
Light Reading's
Comm Chip Insider

FocalPoint Ethernet Switch and Router Chip Family

The FM2000 layer-2, the FM3000 layer-2+ and the FM4000 L2/L3/L4 devices are available in a variety of port configurations with as many as 24 ports of full line rate switching and routing in a single, integrated device. Each FM2000 has a comparable, pin-compatible FM3000 or FM4000 device, enabling customers to offer a family of products with a range of features and price points, leveraging a single hardware design.

The devices in the FM2000, FM3000 and FM4000 series include the following.

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.

FM2000 Series Layer-2 Switch

The single-chip FM2000 devices deliver a robust set of switching capabilities including VLAN support, spanning tree, security, link aggregation, management, statistics and more. With an unprecedented level of integration, the FM2000 devices offer the most compact, lowest latency, power-efficient and cost-effective layer-2 Ethernet switching solutions available today.

FM3000 Series Layer-2+ Switch

The FM3000 devices contain a rich set of features that are ideally suited to application such as telecom backplanes and Carrier Ethernet Switch-Routers. Traffic classification, class-based congestion management, and sophisticated traffic policing and queue management mechanisms allow multiple traffic types to be classified and effectively processed on a prioritized basis. Advanced flow control, L2/3/4 access control lists and other security features plus in-band management capabilities provide a resilient, highly-scalable telecom backplane platform.

FM4000 Series IP v4/v6 Router

The FM4000 devices provide a high performance, low latency Ethernet switch architecture including a comprehensive suite of Layer 3/4 TCP/IP features and advanced security, 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. Traffic classification, class-based congestion management, and sophisticated traffic policing and queue management mechanisms allow multiple traffic types to be classified and effectively processed on a prioritized basis. Advanced tag switching, L2/3/4 access control lists and other security features, IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and multicast and in-band management capabilities -- all while preserving extremely low 300ns latency -- contribute to provide a resilient, highly-scalable Data Center switch platform.

FocalPoint Software

Fulcrum provides a complete set of FocalPoint software tools that make it easy to utilize many of the advanced features available in the FocalPoint switch chips. These software tools includes a feature rich API, the TestPoint scripting tool and the ControlPoint protocol stack.

FocalPoint Platform Reference Designs

Fulcrum has developed a number of platform reference designs which demonstrate the capabilities of the FocalPoint devices and enable customers to get to market quickly with integrated, low-cost, and differentiated product offerings.