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17 years ago

ALT2GXB to Marvell 88E1112 via SGMII?

hey everyone, I am trying to find out if there is anything special that I need to use between the GigE outputs from the ALT2GXB to connect to the Marvell 88E1112 or a similar kind of transceive...
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16 years ago

Did you find a solution? I think the SFP speaks SERDES mode, not SGMII. SGMII sometimes includes the clock, but it's not mandatory (meaning clock has to be extracted from the stream).

I also need to have SGMII protocol using ALT2GXB - no MAC.