Announced by Marvell, the new Marvell 88X7120 chip, which has been developed to offer significant improvements in connectivity and data management in data centers.

Today there are many parts and many elements within the computer industry, which are little known, but without them we could do practically nothing. Among others, there are the Data Centers, which have the function of managing the large volumes of data that are exchanged in an I would say way, and Marvell, is one of the main companies in terms of developing chips for communications management. The company has introduced the Marvell 88X7120, which belongs to the Alaska C family, which allows data transfers of up to 400GbE.

Depending on the number of ports, one speed or another will be offered. The sixteen port card will offer 50GbE, the four port card will offer 200GbE and the two port card will offer 400GbE. In addition, they make use of data transmission through PAM 4, which is a special system for modulating pulses. This technology is used to make the most of the communication capacity for each channel and allow the distribution of energy to be as efficient as possible.

They comply with the 802.3cd standards, which is a special standard for Ethernet connections in this type of system, allowing to offer 200Gb / s per connection, being able to go up to 400Gb / s on a supported motherboard.

Marvell has highlighted that, to satisfy the current information transfer needs, the communication speed in the Ethernet ports must be increased, especially in the systems developed for artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things devices, which are managed in Data Centers. They have also commented that the trend continues to go from the Ethernet ports by copper pairs that support 25Gb / s, to the ports of optical connections that reach 100Gb / s.

Source: Guru3D