DP83850C

The DP83850C 100 Mb/s TX/T4 Repeater Interface Controller, known as 100RIC, is designed specifically to meet the needs of today's high speed Ethernet networking systems. The DP83850C is fully compatible with the IEEE 802.3 repeater's clause 27.

The DP83850C supports up to twelve 100 Mb/s links with its network interface ports. The 100RIC can be configured to be used with either 100BASE-TX or 100BASE-T4 PHY technologies. Larger repeaters with up to 372 ports may be constructed by cascading DP83850Cs together using the built-in Inter Repeater bus.

In conjunction with a DP83856 100 Mb/s Repeater Information Base device, a DP83850C based repeater becomes a managed entity that is compatible with IEEE 802.3u (clause 30), collecting and providing an easy interface to all the required network statistics.