SparX-IV
Family of L2/L3 Enterprise Gigabit Ethernet Switches
with 10 Gbps Links
INTRODUCTION
The VSC7442-02 SparX-IV-52, VSC7444-02 SparX-IV-44, VSC7448-02 SparX-IV-80, and VSC7449-02 SparX-IV-90
SMB/SME/Industrial Ethernet switch family provides a rich set of Enterprise and Industrial Ethernet switching features
such as advanced TCAM-based VLAN and QoS processing enabling delivery of differentiated services, security through
TCAM-based frame processing using Versatile Content Aware Processor (VCAP), protection switching, IEEE 1588v2
precision time protocol, and synchronous Ethernet. IPv4/IPv6 Layer 3 (L3) routing is supported with up to 4K IPv4 (1K
IPv6) unicast LPM entries and up to 2K IPv4 (512 IPv6) L3 multicast groups. L3 security features include source guard
and reverse path forwarding (uRPF) tasks.
A powerful 500 MHz MIPS-24KEc CPU enables full management of the switch and advanced Enterprise and Industrial
applications.
The devices target managed Layer 2 and Layer 3 equipment in SMB, SME, and industrial applications where high port
count 1G switching with 10G aggregation links is required.
The VSC7442-02 SparX-IV-52 device is a 52 Gbps SMB/SME/Industrial Ethernet switch with up to 52 ports supporting
the following main port configuration:
• 12 × QSGMII ports + 4 × 1G SGMII ports
The VSC7444-02 SparX-IV-44 device is a 44 Gbps (60 Gbps with 2.5G SGMII ports) SMB/SME/Industrial Ethernet
switch with up to 26 ports supporting the following main port configurations:
• 26 × 1G SGMII ports
• 24 × 1G SGMII ports + 2 × 10G SFI/XAUI/RXAUI ports
• 6 × QSGMII ports + 2 × 10G SFI/XAUI/RXAUI ports
• 16 × 2.5G SGMII ports + 2 × 10G SFI/XAUI/RXAUI ports
The VSC7448-02 SparX-IV-80 device is an 80 Gbps SMB/SME/Industrial Ethernet switch with up to 52 ports supporting
the following main port configurations:
• 20 × 1G SGMII ports + 4 × 10G ports (1 × 10G SFI + 3 × 10G SFI/XAUI/RXAUI ports)
• 24 × 1G SGMII ports + 4 × 10G ports (2 × SFI + 2 × SFI/XAUI/RXAUI)
• 32 × 1G SGMII ports + 4 × 10G SFI ports
• 36 × 1G SGMII ports
• 10 × QSGMII ports + 4 × 10G ports (2 × SFI + 2 × SFI/XAUI/RXAUI)
• 12 × QSGMII ports + 3 × 10G ports (1 × SFI + 2 × SFI/XAUI/RXAUI)
• 16 × 2.5G SGMII ports + 4 × 10G ports (2 × SFI + 2 × SFI/XAUI/RXAUI)
• 24 × 2.5G SGMII ports + 2 × 10G SFI ports
The VSC7449-02 SparX-IV-90 device is a 90 Gbps SMB/SME/Industrial Ethernet switch with up to 52 ports supporting
the following main port configurations, in addition to port configurations supported by VSC7448-02 and VSC7449-02.
• 12 × QSGMII ports + 4 × 10G ports (2 × SFI + 2 × SFI/XAUI/RXAUI)
• 20 × 2.5G SGMII ports + 4 × 10G ports (2 × SFI + 2 × SFI/XAUI/RXAUI)
• 20 × 2.5G SGMII ports + 4 × 10G SFI ports or 24 × 2.5G SGMII ports + 3 × 10G SFI ports
In addition, all devices support one 10/100/1000 Mbps SGMII/SerDes Node Processor Interface (NPI) Ethernet port.
General Features
This section lists the key device features and benefits.
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 Forwarding
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