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Marvell, a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband
communications solutions, announced the industry's first single-chip
integrated SOHO gateway router solutions to reach full-wire-speed 100 Mbps
WAN/LAN routing, which passes the FCC Class B EMI conformance test.
Marvell is the first to implement this highly integrated gateway router
design
on a 2- layer PCB, achieving the most cost-effective form factor ready for
manufacturing. The Marvell Link Street 88E6208 and 88E6218 SOHO gateway router
devices allow OEM customers to expand their product offerings, addressing a
worldwide home networking and residential gateway market expected to reach
$5.7 billion by 2004, according to Cahners In-Stat Group.
The Marvell Link Street 88E6208 and 88E6218 gateway routers provide single
chip integration, integrating the Company's Link Street 6-port Fast Ethernet
(FE) switch to enhance network reliability, an ARM9 CPU to increase processing
speed and a software architecture for enhanced routing performance. The
Marvell Link Street devices also leverage the Company's newest generation
0.15-micron PHY transceiver technology, which interfaces the chip to external
cables.
The Marvell PHYs incorporate Virtual Cable Tester (VCT) technology, which
provides built-in cable diagnostic testing capability, quickly resolving cable
problems and decreasing downtime.
The highly integrated Marvell Link Street gateway routers achieve the
highest
level of performance available--100 Mbps full-wire-speed WAN/LAN routing. The
devices utilize the Company's UniMAC architecture to accelerate routing
performance with pre-packet processing, speeding IP routing and increasing CPU
performance.
The UniMAC architecture provides enhanced security for systems connected to
WAN, LAN and De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) ports. System products integrating the
Marvell Link Street 88E6218 device add quality-of-service (QoS) for converged
voice/video/data networks, allowing IP services such as IP telephony and
video-over-the-Internet.
"While gateway router OEMs previously had to make a choice between
performance
and cost-effectiveness, the Marvell solution incorporates both requirements,"
stated Benjamin Niu, Marvell's Product Marketing Manager for SOHO Gateway
Routers and Switches.
"With the Link Street devices, Marvell provides full-wire-speed routing and
the lowest system cost implementation, enabling OEMs fast entry into the
rapidly-growing SOHO networking market. In addition, the Link Street gateway
routers achieve extremely low power consumption, providing OEMs with a
complete gateway router design that runs much cooler and achieves a longer
life span, resulting in higher reliability."
Link Street SOHO Gateway Routers
The Link Street 88E6208 and 88E6218 SOHO gateway routers include a high-
speed
ARM9 processor, the Marvell Link Street FE 5-port/6-port switches, and five
Marvell 0.15-micron FE transceivers, providing OEMs with a high-performance,
cost-effective, low power solution.
Link Street 88E6208 SOHO Gateway Router
The cost-effective Link Street 88E6208 SOHO gateway router includes the
following features:
- Full-wire-speed 100 Mbps WAN/LAN routing
- ARM9 CPU @ 133 MHz
- 2-layer PCB reference design which achieves FCC Class B EMI conformance
testing, realizing lower system-cost router design
- Enhanced 5-port FE switch with UniMAC IP routing acceleration
- One UART interface for debugging and for backup phone line WAN connection
- Pin-compatible with the 88E6218 device
- Link Street 88E6218 SOHO Gateway Router
The Link Street 88E6218 SOHO gateway router offers these additional
features:
- Full-wire-speed 100 Mbps WAN/LAN routing, plus a faster CPU providing
bandwidth for software VPN services
- ARM9E CPU @ up to 150 MHz (ARM9E CPU with DSP processor instruction
extensions)
- High-performance cache memory architecture with 8KB instruction cache, 8KB
data cache and 8KB tightly coupled memory
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) enhanced 6-port FE switch including UniMAC IP
routing acceleration for video-over-the-Internet and audio-over-the-Internet
delivery
- External MII port, which can run up to 200 Mbps full-duplex, providing
network expansion capability to an additional multi-port switch or wireless
LAN
Availability and Software Development Kit
Both the Link Street 88E6208 and 88E6218 gateway routers are currently
sampling to customers. Evaluation boards for the Link Street devices are
available now.
Marvell provides a complete software development kit to enable gateway/router
solution delivery, which includes complete board support packages (BSPs),
APIs, device drivers, and software debug tools for the gateway router to run
under a variety of leading embedded operating systems. The APIs support VCT
and development of associated GUI applications.
About Marvell
Marvell is a leading global semiconductor provider of complete broadband
communications solutions for the data communications and storage markets. The
Company's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver,
communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the
entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home, and
storage networking.
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