GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The AR8031 provides a low power, low BOM (Bill of Materials) cost solution for comprehensive applications including enterprise, carrier and home networks such as CPE, home gateway, enterprise switch, carrier switch/router, mobile base station and base station controller, optical module and media converter, industry automation and measurement. The AR8031 integrates Atheros Green ETHOS® power saving technologies and significantly saves power not only during the work time, but also overtime. Atheros Green ETHOS® power savings include ultra-low power in cable unplugged mode or port power down mode, and automatic optimized power saving based on cable length. The AR8031 also supports IEEE 802.3az EEE standard (Energy Efficient Ethernet) and Atheros proprietary SmartEEE. SmartEEE allows legacy MAC/SoC devices without 802.3az support to function as a complete 802.3az system. Further, the AR8031 supports Wake-on-LAN (WoL) feature to be able to help manage and regulate total system power requirements.
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