Aquantia Corp. and Cameo Communications Inc. announced a jointly designed 10 Gigabit switch platform targeted at the Small office Home office (SoHo). This flexible design can accommodate up to eight 10GbE ports with the option to offer a mix of 10GbE, Multi-Gig and Gigabit ports.

The first retail product based on this reference design is the Trendnet 8-Port 10G Switch. The Cameo design leverages the Aquantia AQrate AQR407 Multi-Gig PHY to provide a cost-effective switch solution for 10G network connections. It supports managed switch features to reduce complexity and also incorporates web-based management to control traffic, VLAN, QoS, access controls and more.

Network attached storage (NAS), media centers, routers, access points and gaming devices can all benefit from this new type of affordable, high-bandwidth and easy-to-deploy switch platforms. The Aquantia Cameo switch reference platform delivers a cost-effective and flexible configuration for compact switches across a range of speed requirements. These PHYs are multi-speed 4-port ICs and are pin-compatible with different speed PHYs. OEMs will be able to customize their products based on this switch design to their own specifications.