AQUANTIA
AQRATE® GEN1 ETHERNET PHYS
10GBASE-T/5GBASE-T/2.5GBASE-T/1000BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet PHYs
Product Overview
The Aquantia® AQrate GEN1 PHYs are low-power, high-performance multi-speed
10GBASE-T/5GBASE-T/2.5GBASE-T/1000BASE-T/100BASE-TX transceivers. AQrate
technology bridges the bandwidth gap between legacy Enterprise cabling infrastruc-
ture designed for 1 Gbps data rates and emergent 802.11ac WLAN technology aggre-
gating bandwidth in excess of 1 Gbps. AQrate delivers 5 GbE and 2.5 GbE network
connectivity speed through 100 meters of Cat 5e or Cat 6 cabling enabling the
unabated roll-out of 802.11ac WLAN infrastructure with zero change to legacy cabling.
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density design for high port-count and compact switches.
Wireless APs, compact switches, and a myriad of applications leverage low power of AQR205 to create passively
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• NBASE-T featuring AQrate Adaptive Rate Operation
- Supports 10GBASE-T/5GBASE-T/2.5GBASE-T/1000BASE-T/
100BASE-TX
• Integrated MACsec, 1588v2, EEE support
- Full support for AES-256 and stand-alone operation
• Advanced Cable Diagnostics
- On-chip high-resolution cable analyzer
• Built-in Thermal Management
- On-chip thermal sensor with alarm and warning thresholds
• High-Performance Interfaces
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• 100 meters over Cat 6A at 10 Gbps
• 100 meters over Cat 5e and Cat 6 at 5 Gbps/2.5 Gbps/
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• MACsec, 1588v2, EEE
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- Resilient operation when exposed to RFI
• Comprehensive Interface Support
- Supports legacy and next-gen MACs/switches/processor
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IEEE® 802.3an standard to perform all the physical layer functions required to imple-
ment 10GBASE-T/5GBASE-T/2.5GBASE-T/1000BASE-T/100BASE-TX transmission
over 100 meters of twisted pair cabling. The AQrate PHY family integrates such
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standards up to 60W.
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Applications
Aquantia’s AQrate is a game changing technology enabling Enterprise Networking to evolve beyond 1 Gbps to 5 Gbps and
2.5 Gbps data rates. The dual- and single-port product family is ideally suited for wireless APs, compact switches and a myriad
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