The DCMAC block provides 100G, 200G, and 400G standard ethernet capability in combinations up to 600G to clients in fixed configuration. It also provides a 600G client frontend that performs standard ethernet processing for up to 60 channels in a flexible dynamic configuration that works with an external FlexE shim to sequence the data out and in from the physical transceivers. XPE supports the following modes based on use models:
- 3x200GE with RS-FEC
- Transcoder_Bypass with RS-FEC
- Power_gated without RS-FEC
- 1x400G with RS-FEC
- 1 x200G with RS-FEC
- 1x100G with RS-FEC
- 1x100G without RS-FEC
- 6x100GE with RS-FEC
- 6x100GE without RS-FEC