Dune's products support a variety of port rates: 1GE, 10GE, 40GE & 100GE . The products' network interfaces are based on open standards for seamless interoperability with other network components. Dune's produces support legacy as well as new interfaces standards such as:
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SPI4.2
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XAUI
- SGMII
- QSGMII
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Interlaken
Dune have developed two new standards to support the increasing demand for extensive dense use of 10GE ports:
These new flexible Serdes-based network interfaces are implementation-friendly and requires only simple extensions to the standard XAUI. Leading vendors have joined Dune and adopted the new standards in their complimentary network devices
"Dune expects that devices implementing RXAUI will be released starting 2008 enabling highly dense 10GE systems for Enterprise and Data Centers switches. We expect ICs which focus on the 10GE market, as SFP+ Phy vendors and 10GBaseT PHY vendors, will lead the way."
"I'm often suspicious of interface specifications that do not trace their origins back to independent standards committees, but the folks who put together SPAUI seem to have done a good job of putting the industry's needs above any partisan agendas. By combining the simplicity of XAUI with the SPI4.2's ability to support deeply-channelized traffic, SPAUI provides the low pin-count and long board trace lengths required to drive down port costs. If licensed as openly as its developers promise, SPAUI could provide an efficient, intelligent common interface for next-gen MAC/framers, NPUs and traffic managers while maintaining backwards-compatibility with existing XAUI devices."
Lee H. Goldberg, analog ZONE