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PMC-Sierra,Inc.
Preliminary
PM5372 TSE
40 Gbit/s Transport Switching Element
FEATURES
• Implements a Time-Space-Time fabric with STS-1/AU-3 granularity. • Provides 64 ingress STS-12 equivalent ports for a total of 64*12 = 768 STS-1 flows. • Supports non-blocking permutation switching of 768 STS-1 flows at STS-1 granularity. • Provides 64 egress STS-12 equivalent ports consisting of 768 STS-1 flows. • Interfaces to STS-48 and STS-192 devices by aggregating 4 and 16 STS12 equivalent flows respectively. • Supports multicast and broadcast of STS-1 streams. • Supports STS-12 equivalent flows with an extended 8B/10B protocol over 777.6 MHz LVDS links. • Supports multi-plane (inverse multiplexed) switch architectures in • conjunction with the PM5310 TBS device and PM7390 S/UNI®-MACH48.