System Overview
- Platform: Microchip LAN9696TSN-V/3KW
- Switching Capacity: 66 Gbit/s non-blocking
Data Connectivity
- 24x RJ-45 10/100/1000BASE-T ports
- 4x SFP+ ports (1G/10G capable)
Management & Console
- 1x dedicated Out-Of-Band management port
- 1x USB Type-C console port
- 1x USB Type-A host port
Hardware
- Form Factor: Standard 1U rack-mountable design
- CPU: 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53, single-core @ 1 GHz
- DRAM: 2GB DDR4
- Storage: 16GB eMMC NAND & 32MB QSPI NOR
- PoE Support: 🚧 Coming soon
Switching Performance
- Full wire-speed, non-blocking switching up to 10 Gbps per port
- Advanced programmable TCAM classification
- 12 Mb of integrated shared packet memory
- Low-latency cut-through forwarding mode
- Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az)
Layer 2 Switching
- High-capacity L2 switching handles enterprise-scale networks
- 16K non-hashed MAC address table
- 4K VLANs with IEEE 802.1Q C-tag and S-tag support
Layer 3 Routing
- Hardware-accelerated routing delivers wire-speed performance without software bottlenecks
- IPv4/IPv6 unicast and multicast forwarding with reverse path forwarding
Configuration Management and Telemetry
- NETCONF/YANG (Netopeer2 and sysrepo) based support for datastore configuration management and telemetry
Quality of Service
- Intelligent traffic prioritization ensures critical applications get the bandwidth they need
- 8 priority queues per port with strict priority and DWRR scheduling
- TCAM-based classification with Layer 2-4 pattern matching
- Dual-rate policers and flexible QoS mapping (1K ingress, 2K egress)
- Priority-based flow control (IEEE 802.1Qbb)
Security & Access Control
- Hardware-based Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Advanced ingress and egress security enforcement
- Port-based security with pattern matching capabilities
- Comprehensive traffic policing and rate limiting
Software Stack
The Tactical 1000 runs on a pure Linux foundation:
- Native Linux tools: Standard ip, bridge, tc commands
- Switchdev Framework: Hardware offloading with standard Linux interfaces
- Mainline Support: Full kernel integration without proprietary drivers
Supported Distributions
- OpenWrt (recommended for network appliances)
- Debian/Ubuntu (full server environment)
- Any custom Linux distribution
- Linux kernel 7.0+ support
Development & SDK
- Open source drivers and documentation
- Reference implementations and examples
- Complete SDK and development environment