The Microchip KSZ9896C series of highly-integrated, IEEE 802.3 compliant networking device incorporate a layer-2 managed Gigabit Ethernet switch, five 10BASE-Te/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T physical layer transceivers (PHYs) and associated MAC units, and one configurable GMII/RGMII/MII/RMII MAC port for direct connection to a host processor/controller, another Ethernet switch, or an Ethernet PHY transceiver. The flexible digital I/O voltage on the KSZ9896CTXI allows the MAC port to interface directly with a 1.8/2.5/3.3V host processor/controller/FPGA. Additionally, a robust assortment of power-management features including Wake-on-LAN (WoL) for low power standby operation, have been designed to satisfy energy-efficient system requirements.

Requires 2 to 3 power supply for 1.8 V, 2.5 V, or 3.3 V
Non-blocking wire-speed Ethernet switch fabric supports 1 Gbps on RGMII
Full-featured forwarding and filtering control, including port-based Access Control List (ACL) filtering
Full VLAN and QoS support
Traffic prioritization with per-port ingress/egress queues and by traffic classification