Vitesse adds to industry’s highest performance crosspoint switch family

SANTA CLARA, USA: Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has added another innovation to its industry-leading signal integrity portfolio with the availability of the VSC3308, a new 8-port asynchronous crosspoint switch with enhanced FlexEQ signal equalization capabilities.

Boasting the highest capacity in the industry’s smallest footprint currently available, the VSC3308 is housed in a compact 10mm x 10mm footprint while enabling bandwidth upgrade by 75-percent over existing solutions. Whether building storage, server, router, or optical transport equipment, the device is ideal for converged platforms requiring next-generation data rates and protocols such as PCIe generation 3, 8G Fibre Channel, OTN, or 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet.

“Blade servers, storage equipment and Carrier Ethernet applications are all converging at the 10 Gbps node, requiring high-performance signal integrity products to route, switch and clean up these signals at rates up to 11.3 Gbps,” said Juan Garza, product marketing manager for Vitesse.

“The VSC3308 builds on Vitesse’s proven success in solving high-speed, signal integrity issues and enables customers to future-proof their systems for newer protocols rapidly moving toward production release.”