News First picture of MaxLlinear's 8-port single-chip 2.5 Gbps switch

[TheLostSwede]

I attendend day 0 of Computex today and as I'm writing news for a different publication, I had a chat with the nice people over at MaxLinear and got an exclusive first look at their 8-port single-chip 2.5 switch development board. It should be quite affordable compared to current two chip solution from Broadcom, Realtek etc. and should end up landing somewhere between current Gigabit and 2.5 Gbps switch pricing, assuming the switch makers don't charge a premium for their products.

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MaxLinear's 8-port 2.5 Gbps Switch is Tiny Single-chip Solution

TPU managed to get an early sneak peek of MaxLinear's recently announced 8-port 2.5 Gbps switch IC, ahead of Computex official start tomorrow. The MXL86280 is going to bring some serious competition to the 2.5 Gbps switch market, as thanks to it being a single chip solution that integrates the...

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I had a chat with the nice people over at MaxLinear and got an exclusive first look at their 8-port single-chip 2.5 switch development board.

I see a lot of room for a heat sink...

In any event, if this chipset brings down the price-per-port - that's a damn good thing.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I see a lot of room for a heat sink...

Yeah, I noticed that too. It's not made on a cutting edge node, sub 20nm though. But it should be positively cooled, so no issue there.

In any event, if this chipset brings down the price-per-port - that's a damn good thing.

It sounded like they expect around half compared to current 2.5 Gbps switches.

 

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I attendend day 0 of Computex today and as I'm writing news for a different publication, I had a chat with the nice people over at MaxLinear and got an exclusive first look at their 8-port single-chip 2.5 switch development board. It should be quite affordable compared to current two chip solution from Broadcom, Realtek etc. and should end up landing somewhere between current Gigabit and 2.5 Gbps switch pricing, assuming the switch makers don't charge a premium for their products.

For more details, hit up the full article.

MaxLinear's 8-port 2.5 Gbps Switch is Tiny Single-chip Solution

TPU managed to get an early sneak peek of MaxLinear's recently announced 8-port 2.5 Gbps switch IC, ahead of Computex official start tomorrow. The MXL86280 is going to bring some serious competition to the 2.5 Gbps switch market, as thanks to it being a single chip solution that integrates the...

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So, how much is it? $37?

 

[TheLostSwede]

So, how much is it? $37?

I have no idea what the chip costs, but as I said, the retail price of switches with this chip should be around half of what a similar 8-port switch costs today, so maybe $75 and below.

 

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switch makers don't charge a premium for their products.

Well, if they can keep the costs low enough - this means that more consumer Router/AP's/Gateways can have all ports N-Base-T with 2.5Gbe ports - most of the SoC's at present have two at best with one reserved for the WAN side or internal usage.