PowerSwitch S4100 (S4148-ON) chipset

Tue Oct 19 13:55:53 UTC 2021

I think that Dell is one of the few vendors using it AFAIK?

My understanding same class as T2+, with lower cost, but there are some
limitations.

https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/switching/strataxgs/bcm56760

I thought this was a good explanation:
https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/Bufs/maverick.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 6:40 AM
To: Steven Shalita <sshali at pluribusnetworks.com>
Cc: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com>; NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: PowerSwitch S4100 (S4148-ON) chipset

What is the Broadcom Maverick chipset primarily used or designed for?
This seems like a not commonly used chip to me.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:27 AM Steven Shalita via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
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> Dell S4148 is based on Broadcom Maverick.  S4048 is Trident2 (4048-T is
> Trident2+) and S5248 is Trident3.
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> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+sshali=pluribusnetworks.com at nanog.org> On
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 6:09 AM
> To: 'nanog at nanog.org' <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: PowerSwitch S4100 (S4148-ON) chipset
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> Hello all,
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> I’ve been googling around trying to figure out which Broadcom silicon is
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> Does anyone know which chipset this is? Trident 1? Trident 2? Trident 3?
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> Thanks so much if anyone has already figured this out.
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> -Drew
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