Marvell Introduces Industry’s First Commercially Available Ethernet Transceivers Fully Optimized for 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps Data Rates over Cat5e Cables
The new 88E2010/40 Ethernet transceivers complement a range of Marvell switches for campus applications, supporting 4 to 48 NBASE-T ports
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, April 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a world leader in storage, cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and multimedia semiconductor solutions, today announced the Marvell® Alaska® 88E2010/40 family of Ethernet transceivers, the industry’s first commercially available Ethernet transceivers fully optimized for 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps data rates over Cat5e cables. Providing a cost efficient, small form factor and low power dissipation, the Alaska 88E2010/40 Ethernet transceivers enable the utilization of the most common types of installed Cat5e Ethernet cabling for applications including 802.11ac Access Point uplinks, switches, servers, workstations and high-end PCs. The Alaska 88E2010/40 Ethernet transceivers are designed to be compliant with the emerging IEEE 802.3bz standard and the NBASE-T Alliance specification for 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps data rates over Cat5e cables. The new Marvell Alaska 88E2010/40 Ethernet transceivers further extend Marvell’s Alaska product suite and currently are being sampled by global customers.
