Marvell PHY Transceivers

Ethernet PHYs

Delivering high-performance copper connectivity

PHY transceivers, high speed line cards and AEC DSPs

The Alaska® portfolio of PHY transceivers, high-speed line cards and DSPs for active electrical cables (AECs) offers optimized form factors, multiple port and cable options, efficient power consumption and simple plug-and-play functionality.

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Ethernet PHYs

Marvell continuously delivers the most advanced and complete PHY products to the infrastructure market. Marvell’s transceivers are utilized for a wide array of enterprise, carrier, small medium business, industrial and cloud data center applications.

Alaska F and Alaska G
Fast and Gigabit Ethernet

The Alaska® F and Alaska G families of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceivers are built on Marvell’s legacy of unique, best-in-class features that enable customers to expand their Ethernet applications. With efficient design and a high level of integration, Alaska F and Alaska G PHY devices offer low power dissipation, small form factors, high performance and advanced feature sets.

Alaska F octal-port devices lead the industry with the lowest power consumption, resulting in reduced fan requirements, while the Alaska G devices allow thermal-efficient packages for fanless, heat sink-less designs. Both PHY families feature Marvell’s Virtual Cable Tester® (VCT) technology, allowing IT managers and networking equipment manufacturers to remotely analyze the quality and attributes of the cable, avoiding unnecessary equipment returns and on-site service calls.

  • Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) IEEE 802.3az for all supported data rates
  • Integrated Marvell Virtual Cable Tester® (VCT) technology
  • Minimum 170-meter reach at 1 Gbps
  • 500-meter reach at 100 Mbps
  • MACsec (IEEE 802.1ae) 
  • IEEE 1588v2 supporting 1-Step and 2-Step PTP
  • SyncE

Software

MTD API Open Source Release 105.0.1

Alaska F 301x

Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet Transceiver - Additional MII Support

Alaska G 1512

10/100/1000 BASE-T PHY, Single Port, EEE, RGMII/SGMII to Cu/Fiber/SGMII Transceiver

Alaska G 1510P/Q

10/100/1000 BASE-T PHY, Low Latency, PTPv2, (RGMII/MII)

Alaska G 1510/1518

10/100/1000 BASE-T PHY, Single Port, EEE, RGMII to Cu Transceiver

Alaska G 1548/48P

10/100/1000 BASE-T PHY, Quad Port, PTPv2, SGMII/QSGMII to Cu/Fiber Transceiver

Alaska G 1781

Octal 10/100/1000 Mbps Energy Efficient Ethernet Transceiver with Time-Sensitive Networking Support

Alaska G 1780

10/100/1000 BASE-T PHY, Octal Port, EEE, USGMII to Cu Transceiver

Alaska G 1680

10/100/1000 BASE-T PHY, Octal Port, EEE, QSGMII to Cu Transceiver

Alaska G 1545

10/100/1000 BASE-T PHY, Octal Port, EEE, QSGMII to Cu Transceiver

Alaska M
Multi-gigabit Ethernet

The Alaska M family of 2.5G, 5G and 10G PHY devices is designed to enable enterprises to migrate to mGig Ethernet networking infrastructure quickly and cost-effectively. Alaska M PHY devices offer high performance, design simplicity and extremely low power dissipation, while supporting Category 5e, 6 and 6A type cables for distances up to 100 meters.

Compatible with the NBASE-T Alliance specification for 2.5G and 5G data rate over Cat 5e cables, Alaska M devices use DSP technology to enable the repurposing of low-cost CAT 5e Ethernet cables for data rates as high as 5 Gbps, supplanting the use of optical technology for applications such as Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6/E access point backhaul, switches, servers, workstations and high-end PCs.

The Alaska M 10G PHY devices enable broad-based market adoption of 10 GbE network connectivity over Cat 6A cabling, supporting the roll-out of Wi-Fi 7 and networking infrastructure modernization. Alaska M 10G devices boast the industry’s lowest power, highest performance and smallest form factor in their category and integrate features such as Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), PTP/1588v2, SyncE, MACsec, and support for all PoE standards up to 100W.

  • Multi-rate connectivity: 10 Gbps / 5 Gbps / 2.5 Gbps / 1 Gbps /100 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac), Wi-Fi-6/E (802.11ax) and Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) access point backhaul
  • Compliant with NBASE-T Alliance specifications for 2.5G and 5G modes
  • Superior EMI mitigation: Fast Retrain and Common Mode Sense
  • Auto Media Detect allows one device to act as an Optical (SFI) or Base-T PHY
  • 10Base-T legacy support
  • Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
  • Marvell Virtual Cable Tester® (VCT) technology
  • MACsec (IEEE 802.1ae) with full support for AES-256 and stand-alone operation

Software

MTD API Open Source Release 105.0.1

Alaska M 2010/40

A single-port, 5-speed mGig5G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G PHY data rates on UTP copper lines

Alaska M 3340P/3310P

10 GbE, Quad_Single Port mGig10G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G PHY, PTP, EEE, RXAUI/XFI/XGMII to Cu

Alaska M 3610

Single-port, 6-speed PHY operating at 10M, 100M, 1G, 2.5G, 5G and 10G data rates, USXGMII/XFI to Cu transceiver with PTP and MACsec support (P/N: MV-CUX3610, MV-CUX3610M)

Alaska M 113C

Single Port Copper mGig10G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G PHY with MACsec support

Alaska M 113

Single Copper mGig10G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G PHY with MACsec support

Alaska M 2540

A quad-port, 5-speed mGig5G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G PHY data rates over Cat5e cables

Alaska M 415C

Quad port, mGig2.5G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G PHY

Alaska M 414C

Quad port, mGig5G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G PHY

Alaska M 3540

A quad-port, 6-speed mGig10G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G PHY data rates, MP-USXGMII/XFI to Cu Transceiver

Alaska M 813

Octal port, mGig10G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G PHY

Alaska M 413C

Quad mGig10G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G PHY

Alaska M 2580

Octal-port, 5-speed PHY operating at 10M, 100M, 1000M, 2.5G, 5G data rates, MP-USXGMII/XFI to Cu Transceiver with PTP support

Alaska M 2180/10

An octal-port mGig5G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G PHY Ethernet Transceiver compatible with both IEEE 802.3bz standard and NBASE-T Alliance specification for 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps operation over Cat5e cables

Alaska M 814

Octal port, mGig5G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G PHY

Alaska M 815

Octal port, mGig2.5G, 10M/100M/1G/2.5G PHY

Alaska M 3580

Octal-port, 6-speed PHY operating at 10M, 100M, 1000M, 2.5G, 5G, 10G data rates, MP-USXGMII/XFI to Cu Transceiver with PTP support

Alaska C
High-speed Line Cards

The Alaska C family of Ethernet transceivers are designed for high-speed 400 GbE, 200 GbE, 100 GbE, 50 GbE and 25 GbE line card applications and feature the industry’s lowest power, highest performance and smallest form factor.  

Alaska C devices incorporate the industry’s highest performance 25G NRZ, 56G and 112G PAM4 SerDes technology to support full-duplex transmission over a variety of media including optics, passive direct attach cables and copper backplanes. The family includes transceivers that support IEEE 802.1AE 256-bit MACsec encryption and highly accurate IEEE 1588 PTP timestamping. This comprehensive and innovative feature set enables network equipment manufacturers to deliver systems with increased throughput, enhanced security and timing precision for hyperscale data center, edge, enterprise and 5G infrastructure applications.

  • Support for Ethernet speeds from 1 Gbps to 400 Gbps
  • 25G NRZ and 56G & 112G PAM4 Long Reach SerDes that exceed IEEE-specified performance requirements
  • Support for gearboxing between NRZ and PAM4 modes of operation, with FEC termination and regeneration
  • MACsec (IEEE 802.1ae) with full support for AES-256 
  • IEEE 1588v2 timestamping that exceeds Class C accuracy requirements

Software

MTD API Open Source Release 105.0.1

Alaska C 9340P

Dual 800GbE Retimer DSP PSM-4, Gearbox, MACsec and PTP Ethernet PHY with 100G serial I/Os at 1.6T capacity

Alaska C 93160

Dual 800GbE Retimer/Gearbox with 100G serial I/Os and passive DAC and Backplane drive capability

Alaska C 9121P

Dual 400G MACsec PHY with 100G serial I/Os

Alaska C 7121P

Dual 400G, Quad 200G, Octal 100G, 16 port 50G/25G/10G/1G Ethernet Transceiver with 256-bit MACsec Encryption and Class C PTP Timestamping

Alaska C 7120

Dual 400G Ethernet Retimer, Quad 200G, Octal 10G, 16 port 50G/25G PHY/Retimer

Alaska C 5243P

Quad 100G, 16 port 25G/10G/1G Ethernet Transceiver with 256 bit MACSec Encryption and Class C PTP Timestamping

Alaska C 5123

Dual Port 100GbE/40GbE, Quad Port 50GbE, Octal Port 25GbE/10GbE/1GbE PHY/Retimer compliant to IEEE 802.3bj, IEEE 802.3by, IEEE 802.3ba and 25G Ethernet consortium specifications

Alaska C 5121

Dual 100 Gbps Ethernet Transceiver with integrated FEC for Copper Cable and Backplane Drive Capability

Alaska C 5113

Integrated 40GbE to 25GbE Gearbox, Quad 25G Ethernet Transceiver with Copper Cable and Backplane Drive Capability

Alaska C 5111

Integrated 100 Gbps Ethernet/MLG Gearbox with integrated FEC for Copper Cable and Backplane Drive Capability

Vega

Vega PAM4 DSP is an octal port bi-directional CDR device

Alaska A
AEC DSP

The Marvell Alaska A is a PAM4 DSP (Digital Signal Processing) retimer product family (1.6T/800G/400G) for Active Electrical Cable (AEC) application, optimized for AI accelerators, server to top-of-rack links and switch-to-switch interconnects within data center racks to enabling short-reach copper interconnect solutions of high-speed PAM4 SERDES that meet the growing connectivity requirements of High-Performance Compute and AI Infrastructure. Alaska A 1.6T/800G/400G are retimer devices which utilizes a 224 Gbps and 112 Gbps PAM4 DSP SERDES for optimal performance with greater than 40dB loss on both the Line and Host interfaces.

  • Support for >40dB Loss
  • Enables thinner and longer reach cable
  • Significant margin to IEEE (e.g. 802.3ck)  and CEI Standards for 100G and 50G PAM4 operation
  • Support for IEEE Auto Negotiation and Training protocol
  • Comprehensive test and debug capabilities

Software

MTD API Open Source Release 105.0.1

Alaska A 1.6T

An 1.6T (8x200G) retimer optimized for 1.6T AEC cables in QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors (P/N: MV-CHA1600NV)

Alaska A 800G

An 800G (8x100G) retimer optimized for 800G AEC cables in QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors (P/N: MV-CHA180C0C)

Alaska A 400G

An 400G (4x100G) retimer optimized for 800G/400G AEC cables in QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors (P/N: MV-CHA140C0C)

Legacy Products - Marvell 88E2180

Legacy Products

Marvell's collection of ethernet PHY legacy products offer solutions for enteprise, carrier, small-medium business, industrial and cloud data center applications.

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