A Guide to Ethernet Switch and PHY Chips,
Fourth Edition
     
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Figure 1-1. Typical LAN architecture
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Figure 1-2. Typical data-center components
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Figure 2-1. IEEE 802 standards
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Figure 2-2. IEEE 802.3 basic frame format
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Figure 2-3. Ethernet physical layer
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Figure 2-4. 10G Ethernet physical layer
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Figure 2-5. Optical module size, power, and estimated price
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Figure 3-1. Transmitted data eye (left) and received data eye (right)
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Figure 3-2. Transmitted eye with pre-emphasis and received (right) eye
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Figure 3-3. Impulse response and equalization
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Figure 3-4. Conceptual phase-locked loop
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Figure 4-1. Block diagram of typical GbE switch
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Figure 4-2. Single-port GbE PHY simplified block diagram
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Figure 4-3. Architecture of optical module
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Figure 4-4. 10Gbps serdes architecture
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Figure 4-5. Generic block diagram of a 10GBase-T PHY
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Figure 4-6. Circadiant tester results for 10GBase-LRM
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Figure 5-1. 10GbE switch forecast, 2005–2010
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Figure 5-2. Merchant Ethernet chip revenue (millions of dollars)
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Figure 5-3. GbE switch and PHY revenue share, 2005–2006
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Figure 6-1. Broadcom 48xGbE+2x10GbE stackable Layer 3 switch
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Figure 7-1. LSI 48xGbE+2x10GbE managed Layer 3 switch
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Figure 8-1. Marvell 48xGbE+2x10GbE stackable Layer 3 switch
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Figure 10-1. Vitesse 24xGbE stackable Layer 2 switch
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Figure 12-1. Simplified block diagram of Solarflare’s 10Gbps PHY
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Figure 13-1. Power-over-Ethernet wiring
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Figure 13-2. PSE power-controller block diagram
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Figure 13-3. PD power-controller block diagram
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