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Marvell Delivers Industry's Highest Capacity Central Automotive Ethernet Switches for In-Vehicle Networks
New switch family sets a benchmark in an emerging category of automotive switches to support the zonal networking architectures of next-generation
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[{"type":"text","content":"New switch family sets a benchmark in an emerging category of automotive switches to support the zonal networking architectures of next-generation vehicles.With 90 Gbps of bandwidth, the Brightlane™ Q622x switch family delivers nearly 2x the bandwidth of commercially available solutions. Switch family integrates an advanced set of security technologies for enhancing encryption and preventing man-in-the-middle and other attacks.SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced the Brightlane Q622x family of central Automotive Ethernet switches, the highest capacity switches in a new, emerging category of devices for enabling computing architectures to improve safety and deliver software-defined services for the next generation of vehicles.\nAutomotive manufacturers are rapidly shifting from architectures built around domain networking schemes (where switches manage devices linked to particular applications such as infotainment or safety) and point-to-point connections to zonal networking architectures built around more scalable Ethernet. This shift will enable automakers to dramatically improve the onboard computing capabilities of vehicles for advancing safety systems, enhancing infotainment, increasing fuel efficiency and introducing software-defined services for a better driving experience. This shift, however, requires rethinking the technology used to build vehicle network platforms. \nCentral Automotive Ethernet switches are high-bandwidth, high-performance devices optimized to coordinate data traffic between zonal switches, which aggregate traffic from devices located within a physical zone of a car like processors, sensors, actuators, storage systems and others. Typical cars based around zonal architectures in the future will have three to up to six zones. Using a combination of zonal and central switches will provide automakers with a foundation for optimizing network performance, adding new features and services and accommodating growing bandwidth demands. Ethernet-based zonal architecture also reduces the amount of network cabling required, which reduces weight and manufacturing complexity.\nOptimized for the most advanced automotive architectures, the Brightlane Q6223 switch delivers 90 Gbps of bandwidth, ...