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GL900 • Industrial Gigabit Ethernet Switch

9-Port 1000BASE-T Ethernet (4 x PoE+)
AVB/TSN Protocol Stack

Embedded Gold • Ready-for-Use Industrial PCB Assembly

GL900

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Embedded Gold • Ready-for-Use Industrial PCB Assembly

GL900 • PoE+ Gigabit Ethernet Switch


The GL900 is a 9-port PoE+ capable Gigabit Ethernet switch board, designed for rugged industrial applications. The PCB is provided with 1000BASE-T RJ45 jacks at the front, and in addition a SFP cage at the rear edge for switch expansion. Four front ports are enabled for 802.3at Power-over-Ethernet, up to 120W in total.

The GL900 is equipped with the Marvell® 88E6390 (Peridot) Gigabit Ethernet switch, and in addition the Marvell® Armada® 88F3700 SoC (ARM® v8 Cortex-A53). While the powerful switch is basically self-managed, the CPU enables additional features such as AVB/TSN operation, by means of the optional software stack.

GL900

GL900 • 9-Port GbE Switch


Feature Summary

   General
  • 1000BASE-T Ethernet switch, 9 + 1 ports
  • PCB assembly, intended for rugged industrial applications, ready-for-use (Embedded Gold)
  • 9 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet front connectors
  • 4 x 802.3at PoE+ (up to 30W/port)
  • PoE+ support up to 120W in total
  • 1 x SFP 2500BASE-X rear connector
  • Self-managed operation, or ARM® V8 CPU management support
  • Protocol options e.g. AVB/TSN & VLAN
  • PCB Dimensions: 152mm (W) x 139mm (D) w/o connector overlap
  • Rear edge 4-pos. circular power adapter connector
  • Nominal 48VDC/54VDC power input operation

   Front I/O
  • 9 x RJ45 Ethernet front connectors in total
  • 8 x AVB capable ports 1-8, 1 x non AVB capable port 0
  • 4 x PoE+ enabled ports 5-8
  • 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 10BASE-T compliant data transfer rate

   Rear I/O
  • 1 x SFP 2500BASE-X (switch board to switch board interconnection for doubling the port count)
  • 1 x RJ45 Ethernet connector (CPU management console) 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 10BASE-T
  • 1 x Power jack 4-pos. circular receptacle (aka Power-DIN connector)

   Gigabit Ethernet Switch(es)
  • Marvell® 88E6390 (Peridot) Gigabit Ethernet switch
  • Front ports GbE MAC/PHY 1000BASE-T
  • 4 x RJ45 connectors PoE+ enabled
  • 5 x RJ45 connectors w/o. PoE+
  • 1 x SFP 2.5Gbps SerDes (two GL900 boards can be virtually combined into a single switch)
  • High performance, non-blocking, Gigabit Ethernet
  • Support for up to 16K MAC addresses, 10KByte Jumbo Frames
  • Supports 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Gen 2 *
  • Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) Standards *, IEEE 1588v2 one-step PTP
  • Synchronous Ethernet *
  • Quality of Service (QoS) support with 8 traffic classes
  • Supports 4096 802.1Q VLANs, three levels of 802.1Q security
  • Unmanaged solution or management *
      * CPU Software stack required, for front ports 1-8 & SFP rear port

   Power over Ethernet
  • 4 x RJ45 PoE+ enabled front ports
  • PSE PoE+ according to IEEE 802.at
  • Maximum power delivered per port 30W
  • Maximum power delivered in total 120W
  • IEEE 802.at PSE Type 2 mode A (power over RJ45 pins 1/2 & 3/6, 600mA)

   CPU
  • Marvell® Armada® 88F3720 dual-core or 88F3710 single-core SoC
  • ARM® v8 Cortex-A53
  • Up to 1GHz for industrial temperature range
  • 32 KB-instruction / data (4-way) set associative L1 cache with parity/ECC protection
  • Integrated power switches for dynamic shut down of CPU cores and unused functions
  • Optimal performance-per-Watt
  • High-performance security offload engine including IPSec, SSL, DTLS, and IKE
  • Hardware compliance with ARM Trustzone® architecture for DRM
  • Enhanced Secure-Boot flow using integrated one time programmable (OTP) memory
  • FIPS-140 certified
  • DDR4 512Mb x 16 (1GB) soldered DRAM
  • e•MMC 5.1 Flash 16GB (up to 64GB)
  • SPI Flash 64Mb
  • 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet (SERDES) in use for switch host management
  • 1 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet (RGMII) for rear panel I/O usage 1000BASE-T RJ45

   Ecosystem
  • Complete SDK available including U-Boot, Mainline Linux BSP (Marvell NDA customers only)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 & Buildroot
  • OpenWrt, Yocto, Linaro Open Data Plane (ODP) - support on request
  • KVM and Containers - support on request
  • JTAG port (on-board pin header) suitable for deep hardware/software debugging
  • UART wired to USB via FT234XD for diagnosis and programming
  • USB UART drivers suite (FTDI website)

   Software
  • Webserver (Firmware Updates)
  • AVB/TSN Stack (Optional Licence):
  • IEEE 802.1Q-2011 - Qav (FQTSS) & Qat (SRP)
  • IEEE 802.1AS-2011 - Time Synchronization (PTPv2)
  • VLAN
  • AVNU® MILAN® Bridge Certified
  • Industrial and custom specific protocols on request

   Power Requirements
  • DC Input, 44V-57V (48VDC, 54VDC), 3A max.
  • Power consumption 135W max. (@120W external load)
  • Fast acting chip fuse (PCB soldered type)
  • Protected against reverse polarity
  • TVS ESD Protection
  • Common mode input filter
  • Rear power connector (desktop supply 4-pos. circular connector)

   Applications
  • General industrial networking, Real-Time/TSN, machine vision & monitoring
  • Infotainment/professional audio/video - AVB/Dante™/Milan®
  • Systems with need for custom specific protocols and management features

   Environmental, Regulatory
  • Designed & manufactured in Germany
  • Certified quality management according to ISO 9001
  • Long term availability
  • Rugged solution
  • Conformal coating, sealing, underfilling on request
  • RoHS compliant
  • Operating temperature -40°C to +85°C (industrial temperature range)
  • Storage temperature -40°C to +85°C, max. gradient 5°C/min
  • Humidity 5% ... 95% RH non condensing
  • Altitude -300m ... +3000m
  • Shock 15g 0.33ms, 6g 6ms
  • Vibration 1g 5-2000Hz
  • EC Regulatory EN55035, EN55032, EN62368-1 (CE)
  • FCC (on request)
  • MTBF 68.6years (MIL-HDBK-217F, SN29500 @+40°C)

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