VSC7421-04
• 4 megabits of integrated shared packet memory
Best-in-Class Power Consumption
• Lowest power 17-port Gigabit Ethernet switch available
in the market
QoS
• Eight QoS queues per port with strict or
deficit-weighted round robin scheduling
• Green energy efficiency modes including ActiPHY,
PerfectReach, and Draft IEEE 802.3az
• QoS classification based on IEEE 802.1p and
IPv4/IPv6 DSCP
• Two ICs reduce overall power requirements
• Optimal power consumption for all link speeds
• Data rate shaper and policer per-queue, per-port for
both ingress and egress directions
Features
• Full-duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x) and half-duplex
backpressure, symmetric and asymmetric
• Twelve integrated IEEE 802.3ab-compliant
10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet copper transceivers with
VeriPHY cable diagnostics
• Multicast and broadcast storm control with flooding
control
• Two configuration options:
12 × CuPHY + 2 × 1G SGMII + 2 × 1G/2.5G SGMII
12 × CuPHY + 1× QGMII + 1 × 1G/2.5G SGMII
Key Specifications
• 1 V core power supply
• Integrated 250 MHz 8051 CPU with 64 KB internal
storage
• 2.5 V I/O power supplies
• Serial interface for external CPU register access
• Device overheat protection
• 24 mm × 24 mm thin QFP package
• –40 °C to 125 °C temperature range
• Hardware loop detection
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• 8 K MAC addresses and 4 K VLAN support
• Push/pop VLAN tag
• Ethernet switches
• 1G copper PHYs
• MACs
• Supports IEEE 1149.1 JTAG boundary scan,
IEEE 1149.6 JTAG, 1 Gbps SGMII, and 100BASE-FX
and 1000BASE-X
Layer 2 Switching
L2 Forwarding
and Policers
Shared Queue System
4 Mb Memory
8051 CPU
64 KB Integrated
RAM
• 17-port Gigabit Ethernet switch with nonblocking
wire-speed performance
Ingress and Egress
Statistics
DWRR Scheduler
and Shapers
JTAG, SPI, MIIM
• Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) with programmable
traffic distribution based on Layer 2 through Layer 4
information
VLAN and QoS
Classification
VLAN Editing and
DSCP Remarking
14× GPIO:
LED
UART
17× 1G MAC
• Wire-speed hardware-based learning and CPU-based
learning configurable per port
SIO
IRQ
I/O Muxing
1× QSGMII
Two-Wire Serial
Fan Controller
• Independent and shared VLAN learning
12× CuPHY
4× SGMII
• Jumbo frame support up to 12.2 kilobytes with per-port
programmable MTU
1× QSGMII
1000BASE-X
100BASE-FX
12×
2× 1G + 2× 1G/2.5G SGMII
1000BASE-X
100BASE-FX
10/100/1000 Mbps
• Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support
(IEEE 802.1ad)
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