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Marvell Makes a Move on the Managed GbE Market By Practically Networked Staff
08.13.2003. Joining Linksys and SMC in a spate of SOHO/SMB-focused Gigabit Ethernet introductions this week, Marvell yesterday announced the Link Street 88E6183 10-port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) QoS switch, a product the company touts as the industry's first highly integrated GbE switch with enterprise features for managing SMB and SOHO networks.
The managed switch offers high integration of enterprise networking capabilities, including network security, network management support, and four-level QoS for converged voice/video/data networks and multimedia distribution over the network.
"The Marvell Link Street 88E6183 Gigabit Switch is the ultimate solution for SMB and SOHO networking, providing advanced security capabilities for business LANs and wirespeed throughput for voice/video/data networking," states Russell Yin, Senior Product Marketing Manager for SOHO and Remote Office Network Products. "Our latest switch introductions deliver best-in-class security performance to protect business networks against security threats, while building on the Marvell four-queue Quality of Service switch and managed switch architectures."
The 88E6183 switch includes Layer 2 security networking functions based on the MAC-based authentication protocol (IEEE 802.1X), a feature that enables customers to implement the Port-Based Access Control specified under the standard as well as maintain specific-client MAC address authorization tables for authenticating and authorizing only known clients to access the LAN.
Advanced QoS features supported include IPv4 and IPv6 QoS and QoS packet classification (802.1p) with four priority queues, which enable network traffic management for high-bandwidth applications such as VoIP and multimedia. The device also supports broadcast storm protection and bandwidth rate limiting, allowing better network control among LAN clients given available network bandwidth. Additionally, the switch enables three ports to be selected as SERDES ports or as fiber ports, each of which can drive a fiber module directly.
Other advanced features include:
Single-chip integration of a 10-port GbE QoS switch
Ten integrated triple-speed 10/100/1000 SERDES ports
IEEE 802.1X MAC-based authentication
Port-based VLANs supported in any combination
High-speed switch fabric
QoS determined by port ID, IEEE 802.1p and multimedia traffic tags, IPv4 Type of Service (ToS), Differentiated Services (DiffServ), IPv6 Traffic Class, 802.1Q VLAN ID, destination MAC address, and source MAC address
Support for port-based VLANs and up to the full 4,096 802.1Q VLANs
Extensive RMON statistics counters
Link aggregation for any number of ports (port trunking)
Port mirroring
Multiple address data bases (up to 16)
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol Support
Chip configuration through SMI ports (MDC/MDIO) or by low-cost Serial EEPROM
