FAP10
FAP10 is Fabric Access Processor manufactured by DUNE.
Overview
Dune Networks SAND™ (Scalable Architecture for Networking Devices) chipset provides a plete solution for switching fabric and ingress/egress traffic management. The SAND™ chipset includes a Fabric Element device (FE200) and a family of Fabric Access Processor (FAP) devices. The FE200 enables switched-based systems across all types of FAP devices. The FAP devices differ from each other by the aggregate rate they provide to the user, their traffic-management capabilities, and the interface towards the NP or MAC/framer. The SAND chipset enables, for the first time, Internet and storage-platform vendors to build a full product line using the same chipset guaranteeing a life cycle of 7+ years. In order to provide this extensive life cycle the SAND chipset provides three scaling dimensions: port bandwidth, port count, and port service scheme. A system built using the SAND chipset is capable of providing total user bandwidth starting from 10Gbps and extending up to 80Tbps. The system allows the user to connect mixed rate line cards
(10Gbps, 20Gbps, 40Gbps and higher) and line cards with various traffic management capabilities. The FAP10V and FAP20V devices provide 10Gbps and 20Gbps ingress/egress prehensive trafficmanagement functionality via SPI4.2 interfaces while incorporating a switch fabric interface. The embedded switch fabric interface allows the FAP10V and FAP20V devices to interconnect and municate via their fabric interface, allowing any system of any size to provide end-to-end rate and weight guarantees for packet flows.
FABRIC ACCESS PROCESSOR (FAP10/20V) 1/2 X SPI4.2 Receive/Transmit Interface External CPU Interface (ECI)
DRAM Packet Memory
Fabric Input Processor (FIP)
1/2 X SPI4.2
Top Level FAP Block Diagram
Network Processor plex
Scheduler
Fabric Output Processor (FOP)
Fabric Interface 3.125Gb/s Serial Links
FABRIC
Fabric
Processor
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Fabric Access Processor
- FAP10/20V
System Configurations and Applications
The FAP10/20V can be...