TPX3103 Carrier Packet Engine
The TPX3103 Carrier Packet Engine is a combined Carrier Ethernet Switch and Traffic Manager with support for PBB-TE / PBT and also T-MPLS, MPLS and VPLS/PWE3.
The key features are:
- 52 Gbps full duplex, non-blocking switch capacity in mated configuration
- 26 Gbps capacity in single device configuration
- Deterministic packet processing architecture for guaranteed throughput independent of number of packet operations
- Certified MEF 9 and 14 compliant features and interoperability tested
- 10 GE port and 12 FE/GE ports per device
- SPI-4.2 interface
- Support for PBB-TE / PBT and T-MPLS
- Multiprotocol support for Carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, VPLS/PWE3
- Hardware-based OAM support (i.e. not off-loaded to CPU)
- Fast protection switching for PBB-TE / PBT and T-MPLS
- Extensive monitoring features
- Advanced QoS features for Flow identification, control, policing and scheduling
The TPX3103 provides unrivaled support for multiple popular Carrier Ethernet protocols. This includes full hardware support for fast protection switching schemes demanded by PBB-TE /PBT and T-MPLS. This has resulted in proven and tested protection switching performance well within the 50msec carrier grade requirement.
Designed on a monolithic switching architecture, the TPX3103 provides totally deterministic performance under any load with simultaneous support for multiple protocols and OAM processing on up to 1000 protected groups.
The TPX3103 is delivered as a SOFTSILICON product including:
- Altera Stratix III EP3SL200 device
- FPGA image software implementing TPX3103 features and interfaces
- Associated driver software
See also: 
TPX3103 Product Brief
See also:
TPX3100 40 Gbps Carrier Packet Engine
TPX2530 13 Gbps Carrier Packet Engine
TPX2540 13 Gbps Carrier Packet Engine