VSC7438
32 Gbps Carrier Ethernet Switch with ViSAA™, VeriTime™, MPLS-TP, and L3 Routing Support
Microsemi's Carrier Ethernet switch family offers the highest performance, marketready solution for MEF CE 2.0 service delivery.
The VSC7438 Serval-2™ device targets IP Edge demarcation and access
equipment to deliver Enterprise and mobile backhaul. VSC7438 is based on
Virtualized Service Aware Architecture (ViSAA™), a silicon implementation that
offers an unmatched level of Service Edge and Carrier Ethernet Networking
features. ViSAA achieves wirespeed performance for even the most feature-rich
Carrier Ethernet (CE) services. VSC7438 also integrates VeriTime™, Microsemi's
patent-pending timing technology that delivers the industry’s most accurate IEEE
1588v2 timing implementation.
The VSC7438 Carrier Ethernet switch contains twelve 10/100/1000 Mbps SGMII/
SerDes ports, three 10/100/1000 Mbps QSGMII ports, and two 10 Gbps XAUI/
SFI ports. VSC7438 provides a rich set of Carrier Ethernet switching features such
as hierarchical QoS, hardware-based OAM (Ethernet and MPLS/MPLS-TP) and
SAM, protection switching, and Synchronous Ethernet. Using provider bridging
(Q-in-Q) and MPLS/MPLS-TP technology, VSC7438 delivers MEF CE 2.0 EVCs.
The Versatile Content Aware Process (VCAP™) architecture is scalable and flexible
for secure applications. It features advanced TCAM classification in both ingress
and egress. Per-EVC features include a rich set of statistics, OAM for end-to-end
performance monitoring, and dual-rate policing and shaping.
VSC7438 supports IPv4/IPv6 Layer-3 (L3) routing with up to 4K IPv4 (1K IPv6)
unicast LPM entries and 2K IPv4(512 IPv6) L3 multicast groups. L3 security features
include source guard and reverse path forwarding tasks.
Highlights
• Virtualized Service Aware Architecture
(ViSAA™)
• MPLS/MPLS-TP and Layer-3 routing
support
• MEF UNI and NNI functionality
• Hardware-based Ethernet OAM,
performance monitoring, and service
activation measurement (SAM)
• Network demarcation
• Hierarchical QoS priority for queuing and
subscriber separation
• Service protection (linear, ring)
• Integrated timing: VeriTime™, SyncE
Applications
• Wireless and mobile backhaul
• Ethernet/MPLS demarcation
• Network Interface Device
VSC7438 supports Microsemi's application programming interface for easy
integration with third-party application software. The device also supports
Microsemi's CEServices application software, dramatically reducing customer
time-to-market.
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VSC7438
32 Gbps Carrier Ethernet Switch with ViSAA™, VeriTime™, MPLS-TP, and L3 Routing Support
Features
ViSAA™ and Carrier Ethernet Features
• 2 × 10 GbE ports
• Provider bridging (Q-in-Q) and MPLS/MPLS-TP
• 12 × 1 GbE SGMII/SerDes ports (up to 12 × 2.5 GbE)
• Linear and ring protection switching
• 12 × 1 GbE (3× QSGMII) + 2 × 10 GbE
• MEF CE 2.0 ready: 8 COS EVCs with per-EVC dual-rate
policing and shaping, queueing, and statistics
• PCIe for control/status register access
• Integrated shared packet memory
• Fully nonblocking wire-speed switching performance for all
frame sizes
• 8 QoS classes with thousands of H-QoS queues
• Advanced security and per-service classification available
through multistage TCAM engines
• Hardware-based Ethernet and MPLS-TP OAM: Up-MEPs
and Down-MEPs, Four layers of nested MEPs
• Hardware-based Y.1564 service activation test
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• L1 Synchronous Ethernet
• Priority-based flow control
• Integrated MIPS-24KEc CPU with DDR3 SDRAM controller
Key Specifications
Layer-2 Switching
• 27 mm × 27 mm FCBGA
• 802.1Q VLAN switch with 32K MACs and 4K VLANs
• Classify and modify up to three VLAN tags
• Low power dissipation
• Operating temperature –40 °C to 125 °C
• IPv4/IPv6 multicast
Related Products
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• RSTP and MSTP support
• Hardware-based and software-based learning
• Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)
• Independent and shared VLAN learning (IVL, SVL)
• Jumbo frame support
• VSC7460 Jaguar-1™ and VSC7462 LynX-1™ 24-port and
12-port Carrier Ethernet switches with VeriTime™
• VSC7418 Serval-1™ 11-port Carrier Ethernet switch with
MPLS-TP and VeriTime™
• VSC7416 Serval-Lite™ 6-port Carrier Ethernet switch with
MPLS-TP Support and VeriTime™
Layer-3 Routing
• 4K/1K IPv4/IPv6 table entries (LPM and hosts)
• 2K/512 IPv4/IPv6 (S, G, V) or (*, G, V)
• 128 router legs
• Simultaneous L3 routing with Provider Bridging and MPLS/
MPLS-TP service switching
• Microsemi Unified API and Microsemi CEServices application
software
Shared Queue System
QoS, Flow Control, Buffer Management,
Discard Service Statistics
L2 Forwarding
Hierarchical
Shapers and Schedulers
Policers
Arrival Service Statistics
TCAM-Based Classification
Ethernet/MPLS Services,
QoS, ACLs
• Boundary clock and transparent clock
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TCAM-Based Editing
Translation, Remarking,
Departure Service Statistics
Port Modules
12 × 1 GbE
SGMII/SerDes
3 × QSGMII
SyncE
MIPS CPU
VeriTime™ Features
• L2 IEEE 1588v2
OAM and SAM
Engines
2 × 10 GbE
XAUI/SFI
DDR3
Memory Controller
JTAG, SPI
GPIOs
PCIe
1 × 1 GbE NPI
SGMIII
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