Zarlink Ships its Latest Fast Ethernet Switching Chips

Zarlink announced volume availability of a new family of small Fast Ethernet switching chips featuring QoS capability. The six-device product family consists of eight-port Fast Ethernet switches with a Gigabit uplink, as well as five- and nine-port switches. Available in managed or lightly managed options, the switches provide full wire-speed forwarding at Layer 2 and classification at Layers 2 through 4. The Gigabit uplink versions are expandable to 16 ports. The designs are Zarlink’s sixth generation of Ethernet switching chips.
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