
The following features provide design
flexibility:
10-Gbps (stand-alone chip) or
20-Gbps (back-to-back chips)
aggregate user bandwidth
Four 2.5-Gbps/OC-48c NPU
attachments or one 10G/OC-192c
NPU attachment per chip
Embedded standard CSIX-L1 interface
to Network Processor or Traffic
Manager
Switch/adapter cards with seamless
connection between switch fabric chip
and NPU(s)
Ingress Virtual Output Queuing (VOQ)
with up to 1024 unicast queues and
eight multicast queues
Quality-of-Service (QoS) support with
four levels of traffic priority and four
programmable ingress queue
thresholds (ingress CSIX flow control
per destination and priority)
Packet payload protection, with
optional cyclic redundancy check
insertion
Packet header parity generation and
checking
Efficient multicast (replication at
sending)
Product Brief
PRS 16G/C192
Switch Fabric
PB PRS 16G/C192 / v0.5 / 12-19-2003
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Empowering Intelligent Networks
In conjunction with switch designs based
on PRS 64Gu or PRS Q-64G devices,
adapter cards implementing the PRS
C192 fabric interface can equip single-
stage switching systems offering today
up to 320 Gbps of user bandwidth.
The integration of self-switching and
fabric interface capabilities into a single
device provides system vendors with an
easy path to scale their platforms from
low-end boxes up to high-end, chassis-
based solutions capable of switching up
to 320 Gbps of aggregate full-duplex
user traffic, while optimizing and
protecting their line card design
investments.
This enables offerings that allow
operators to deploy entry versions of
their next-generation, chassis-based
platforms, while they are introducing
advanced IP-based services, for
example, merging data and voice over
Quality-of-Service (QoS)-aware
networks, implementing virtual private
networks (VPNs), or deploying security
applications closer to the end users.
Single-Chip or Two-Chip Switch
Fabric with Seamless Network
Processor Connection – PRS 16G
Functions
The PRS 16G/C192 switch fabric device
offers an economical solution that
enables the implementation of 10-20
Gbps systems.
A single chip operates as a 10-Gbps
full-duplex switch fabric providing 4x4
switch ports at 2.5-Gbps/OC-48c speed
with standard CSIX-L1 interface.
In a two chip configuration, the
PRS 16G/C192 can operate as an 8x8
port, 2.5-Gbps/OC-48c switch fabric,
thus offering an aggregate full-duplex
throughput of 20 Gbps.
As another two-chip configuration, one
of the devices can be configured with a
single 10-Gbps/OC-192c port with
standard CSIX interface so as to provide
the uplink aggregating the traffic of the
four 2.5-Gbps/OC-48c ports of the other
chip.
The chip features configurable fixed-size
packet switching and is capable of
supporting either frame-based traffic
(through segmentation and reassembly
performed by the attached network
processors) or cell-based traffic.
Robust Features
40-320 Gbps Switch Applications
GE
10G
Network
Processor
GE
PRS
PRS
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
Switch
Control
Switch
Control
Active
Switch
Protection
Switch
PRS 64Gu,
PRS Q-64G
CSIX
Switch Fabric
Switch Core (NxN)
Adapter
OC-12
1
OC-48
Network
Processor
OC-12
4
Fibre
Channel
OC-48
Network
Processor
Fibre
Channel
OC-48
Network
Processor
OC-48
Network
Processor
8 Links at
2.5 Gbps
8 Links at
2.5 Gbps
8 Links at
2.5 Gbps
8 Links at
2.5 Gbps
16 Gbps
1 bs
16 Gbps
1 Gp
16G/C192
16G/C192
Adapter
CSIX