Updates to the Fourth Edition of

"A Guide to Ethernet Switch and PHY Chips"

formerly "A Guide to Gigabit and 10G Ethernet Chips"

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"A Guide to Ethernet Switch and PHY Chips" has been restructured to incorporate new announcements made since the release of the previous edition and to incorporate coverage of high-speed PHYs previously found in our High-Speed Interconnect report.

  • New coverage of 10Gbps Ethernet-over-copper chips from Solarflare and Teranetics
  • Updated coverage of 10GbE switch chips from Broadcom, Fujitsu, and Dune
  • New coverage of Fulcrum's 10GbE roadmap
  • Updated coverage of GbE switch chips from LSI, Broadcom, Marvell, Realtek, and Vitesse—including new products from Broadcom
  • Includes coverage of 10Gbps Optical PHYs
  • Coverage of Power over Ethernet controllers from Texas Instruments, SiLabs, Akros, LT, Maxim, MicroSemi, and others
  • 2006 market size and vendor share for GbE/10GbE switch chips and GbE PHYs
  • Product comparisons updated to include the latest chips.


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