Product Brief

Marvell® PRESTERA® 98DX83xx Family

A New Generation of Prestera-DX Multi-Layer 1G/10G/40G Ethernet Switches

Overview
Marvell® Prestera® 98DX83xx multi-layer Ethernet switch The Marvell Prestera 98DX83xx family includes extensive traffic
devices are a new generation of highlyintegrated packet counters across all its processing and forwarding/fi ltering
processors built for service delivery in Campus LAN Access engines. The architecture enables key technologies, such as
Switch and Aggregation, Wi-Fi 802.11ac Wave2 Access Point standard virtual overlay encapsulations as well as large L2/
Aggregation, eDrive and Server connectivity, and other L3-host Forwarding Database (FDB) and Longest Prefix Match
interconnect applications requiring low-power 40GbE and (LPM) tables for high scaling of L2/L3 services.
10GbE connectivity.
These devices support two-step and one-step Precision Time
They can be used in SDN and OpenFlow applications, utilizing Protocol (PTP) per the IEEE 1588v1/v2 standard and includes
its multiple TCAM lookups for generic match/action rules and up to 33 high-speed, low-power, multi-rate SERDES. It is also
its L2/L3 forwarding tables. The Marvell Forwarding Plane feature and software compatible with the previous generations
Abstraction (FPA) software suite enables seamless integration of the Prestera-DX Family of devices and provides a consistent
with the leading OpenFlow agents and controllers. architecture for 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet devices.

Block Diagram

PCIe

Internal Policy TCAMs L2 and L3 MLL

Packet Memory IPv4/IPv6 Router

Transmit Queues Ingress Policers

Schedulers and Shapers

Header Alteration Bridge

Egress Policy Ingress Policy

Tunnel Termination and

Egress Policers Virtual Interface Assignment

PTP (EEE 1588) OAM

Network Ports

SERDES Interface
Key Features

Features Benefits

High Integration • Large packet buff ers

• Shared TCAMs resources with Flexible TCAM sizes
• High-speed SERDES

Multi-Rate FlexLink Ports • 10/100/1000/2500 Mbps Ethernet MAC with SGMII

• 5G Ethernet MAC with 5GBASE-KR
• 10G Ethernet MAC with XAUI or RXAUI or 10GBASE-KR
• 20G Ethernet MAC with proprietary 20GBASE-KR2
• 40G Ethernet MAC with 40GBASE-KR4

Virtual Overlay Network • NVGRE, VXLAN-GPE, GENEVE, SPB, and 802.1BR port extender

Unified Architecture • Support for virtual bridging and routing and congestion
management features enabling OpenFlow, SDN/Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) cloud-managed network deployments

SERDES Test Capabilities • Rx and Tx/Rx Training capability per SERDES lane for optimizing
the SERDES performance and error rate
• Built-in test capabilities (loopback and PRBS) per SERDES lane
• Eye Opening Monitor per SERDES lane for tuning and diagnostics

Layer-2 Wire-Speed Switching Engine • IEEE 802.1Q-compliant bridging

• Large Forwarding Database (FDB) providing exact-match lookup
for MAC entries, IGMPv3/MLDv2 IP Multicast, FCoE entries, and
Router Host entries
• Learning and forwarding based virtual ports (ePorts) and virtual
bridge domains (eVLANs) for L2/VSI overlay services
• L2 ECMP and Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) for load sharing
and fast failover
• IEEE 802.1w (RSTP) and 802.1s (MSTP)

Advanced Power • Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) support on core voltage

• 2 Voltage rails: 1V, 1.8V

Development Kit • Prestera Software Suite (CPSS) driver support

• Compatible with all Prestera®-DX APIs and concepts
• Board Support Package (BSP) provided for Linux
• Marvell total solution application software
• Firmware for unmanaged switch

Target Applications
The Marvell Prestera 98DX83xx family provides a consistent architecture for 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet devices.
Typical target applications include:

• Enterprise and Campus 10GbE Access and Aggregation Switch • SMB Managed, smart and unmanaged 10GbE switches
• 10G embedded connectivity (base station, servers) for Internet café and Gaming
• Storage and server connectivity in the private cloud

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Marvell_98DX93XX_PB Revised: 05/20