Transceiver ICs help protect mobile network infrastructures

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation unveiled the newest additions to its 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) PHY portfolio, the VSC8256, VSC8257, and VSC8258 quad-channel 10/40G physical layer transceiver family enabling government-grade, FIPS-197-certified 256-bit MACsec encryption to protect critical Enterprise, Cloud and mobile network infrastructures.

Cloud service providers and data centers need to enable secure Ethernet service delivery between Enterprises and the Internet Cloud. This drives the need for higher performance, higher-capacity WAN Edge and data center connectivity. Additionally, server adapters, or Network Interface Cards (NICs), are evolving into intelligent application accelerators or application offload engines to maximize server CPU utilization in compute-hungry applications such as high frequency trading, Web 2.0, and data analytics in embedded industrial environments.

Addressing these needs, Vitesse’s VSC8256, VSC8257andVSC8258enable secured connections with improved quality and efficiencies, delivering:
· High capacity 40G connectivity;
· Highly accurate VeriTime IEEE 1588 network timing; and
· Flexible Layer 2 security (Intellisec™ IEEE 802.1AE MACsec) offload for companion network processors, I/O processors, MAC controllers and/or FPGA-based designs.

For IP Edge and access networks, higher capacity, more intelligence and secured Ethernet transport are key to enabling cloud service delivery to users, whether mobile, Enterprise or industrial. Secure and highly accurate network-based timing, now a given for mobile networks and a growing number of Enterprise, will ultimately enable Cloud connectivity to Industrial-IoT networks.

The VSC825x family is the industry’s only to deliver 40G connectivity with “secure 1588,” made possible by Vitesse’s FIPS-certified Intellisec IEEE 802.1AE MACsec security encryption technology and Vitesse's VeriTime IEEE 1588 timing and synchronization. The IEEE 1588 timing accuracy required in TD-LTE and LTE-Advanced mobile networks is impossible in conjunction with traditional MACsec implementations.Together, Intellisec and VeriTime deliver line-rate 256-bit encryption with the industry’s de facto highest accuracy IEEE 1588 timing. Intellisec’s “tag-in-the-clear” capability also provides the network transparency needed to enable use of third party networks for delivery of critical services to mobile, Enterprise and Industrial-IoT networks.

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