TPX4000 series Carrier Packet Engine

The TPX4000 Carrier Packet Engines are designed for use in Carrier Ethernet and Packet Transport applications.

Product Documentation for TPX4000 series:

 Product Brief 

 Data Sheet 

 

The key features of the TPX4004 are:

  • 40-80 Gbps full duplex non-blocking L2 switch
  • Fully deterministic packet processing performance at wire speed
  • Advanced, programmable traffic scheduler and shaper
  • True MEF-defined Carrier Class support with large packet buffer and L2-address space
  • Extensive hardware based Ethernet and MPLS OAM support
  • Multi-protocol support for MPLS-TP, T-MPLS, Ethernet Q-in-Q, PBB, PBB-TE
  • Up to 4 x XAUI / 40 x GE
  • Up to 2x SPI-4.2 ports for SONET/SDH/OTN virtual switching
  • Up to 8 lanes of Interlaken
  • Hardware-based OAM packet processing for several thousand packet tunnels/flows

Focusing on Carrier Ethernet and MPLS-TP support at Layer 2/2.5, the TPX4004 addresses the emerging need for packet intelligence in Transport Networks. In this regard, it includes a number of features not typically included in Enterprise Ethernet switches or router packet processor chips. For example, the TPX4004 includes support for all major metro protocols including MPLS-TP / T-MPLS, VPLS, Ethernet Q-in-Q, PBB and PBB-TE. It also includes hardware based OAM support for these protocols with extremely fast OAM transmission/reception (3.3ms period) allowing sub-50ms hardware-based Automatic Protection Switching. TPX4004 also includes configurable support hierarchical traffic management.

The TPX4004 is delivered as a SOFTSILICON product including:

  • Altera 40nm technology
  • FPGA image software implementing TPX4004 features and interfaces
  • Associated driver software

As the products are based on re-programmable FPGA technology TPACK can optionally modify our standard product to meet your specific needs for additional features.

See also:

TPX3100 40 Gbps Carrier Packet Engine

TPX2000 6 Gbps Carrier Packet Engine

Applications

SOFTSILICON Concept