Marvell Announces Latest Single-Chip Ethernet Transceiver SolutionAlaska 88X7120', The world's first support to 400GbE, which is 400,000 Gigabit Ethernet.
According to the IDC data of the market adjustment agency, 100GbE has become the default option for the ultra-large-scale data center, and the server is also moving toward 25GbE, 50GbE.
The Marvell 88X7120 is targeted at the very large-scale data center market, using 50G PAM4 (4-pulse amplitude modulation) signals, supporting 16 50/25/10/1GbE ports, or 4 200GbE ports, or 2 400GbE ports, all of which are full-duplex transmissions , To meet the high demands of processing and I/O bandwidth for emerging applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.
It is still The first PHY physical layer scheme that is fully compatible with the IEE 802.3cd standard (which defines a PAM4-based 50GbE port type) , Optimized for QSFP-DD, QSFP ports on 50/200/400GbE networks.
The 88X7120 solution is now sampling to key customers and volume shipment times are uncertain.
