SparX-5 Family of L2/L3 Enterprise 25G Ethernet Switches
Introduction
The SparX-5 Enterprise Ethernet switch family provides a rich set of Enterprise switching features such as advanced
TCAM-based VLAN and QoS processing enabling delivery of differentiated services, and security through TCAM-
based frame processing using versatile content aware processor (VCAP). IPv4/IPv6 Layer 3 (L3) unicast and
multicast routing is supported with up to 18K IPv4/9K IPv6 unicast LPM entries and up to 9K IPv4/3K IPv6 (S,G)
multicast groups. L3 security features include source guard and reverse path forwarding (uRPF) tasks. Additional L3
features include VRF-Lite and IP tunnels (IP over GRE/IP).
The SparX-5 switch family features a highly flexible set of Ethernet ports with support for 25G aggregation links,
QSGMII, USGMII, and USXGMII.
The device integrates a powerful 1 GHz dual-core ARM® Cortex®-A53 CPU enabling full management of the switch
and advanced Enterprise applications.
The SparX-5 switch family targets managed Layer 2 and Layer 3 equipment in SMB, SME, and Enterprise where
high port count 1G/2.5G/5G/10G switching with 25G aggregation links is required.
The SparX-5 switch family consists of following SKUs.
VSC7552 SparX-5-128 supports up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary port configurations.
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12 × 10G
6 x 10G + 2 x 25G
16 × 2.5G + 8 × 10G
48 × 1G + 8 × 10G
VSC7556 SparX-5-160 supports up to 160 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary port configurations.
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16 × 10G
10 × 10G + 2 × 25G
16 × 2.5G + 10 × 10G
48 × 1G + 10 × 10G
VSC7558 SparX-5-200 supports up to 200 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary port configurations.
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20 × 10G
8 × 25G
In addition, the device supports one 10/100/1000/2500/5000 Mbps SGMII/SerDes node processor interface (NPI)
Ethernet port.
Features
This section lists the key device features and benefits.
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Layer 2 and Layer 3 Forwarding
– IEEE®802.1Q switch with 4K VLANs and 32K MAC table entries
– Push/pop/translate up to three VLAN tags on ingress and egress
– RSTP and MSTP support
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