Next-gen 65nm switch family enables single hardware platform

Next-gen 65nm switch family enables single hardware platform

Broadcom delivers high performance, scalable solution for enterprise, data center and SP networks

Thursday, May 01, 2008

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LAS VEGAS, USA: Broadcom Corp. has announced the StrataXGS 4 -- its next generation family of single-chip 65nm switches. This product family enables OEMs to build single high-density systems that meet the cost, power, performance and scalability requirements of service provider, data center and enterprise markets using a merchant silicon solution.

Broadcom's 4th generation StrataXGS architecture utilizes a low power, 65nm CMOS process technology to enable the scalability necessary for data center 3.0 applications, the security required for enterprise networks, as well as the protocols and QoS needed to implement next-generation service provider networks.

As today's network continues to evolve, bandwidth requirements for service providers and data centers are growing at an unprecedented rate. Traditionally, equipment manufacturers relied on custom ASICs or FPGAs for their high- end networking products in these markets.

This approach, however, has high development and product costs, a lengthy time-to-market, and results in a product that consumes too much power and is difficult to manage. Legacy networking technologies are being phased out in favor of a converged Ethernet-based virtualized network, and as a result, system providers are now confronted with new demands and challenges.

New equipment must be developed and brought to market quickly with dramatically reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and must retain support for critical and intricate protocols, as well as maintain high availability (HA) and advanced QoS. Broadcom is the first silicon provider to effectively address these requirements in a single high performance platform that reduces development costs and time-to-market; an accomplishment that can help to facilitate the industry transition from custom ASICs to merchant silicon.

The Broadcom StrataXGS 4 multi-layer switch family includes two new products: the BCM56624 and BCM56720. A third product, the BCM56820 was announced last November 2007 and completes the product family.

StrataXGS 4 products offer a new solution to OEMs designing modular, stackable and fixed form factor equipment for the service provider, data center, and enterprise markets. Using a platform approach for design flexibility, StrataXGS 4 products allow OEMs to meet the requirements of on-demand networks including the seamless migration of servers and storage subsystems across the data center, while eliminating the cost of deploying and maintaining separate, disparate fabrics such as Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and others.

For service providers, the StrataXGS 4 architecture facilitates a converged network by collapsing voice, video and data onto a single IP backbone that supports both wired and wireless connectivity.

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