LAS VEGAS, USA: Broadcom Corporation, a  semiconductor solutions provider for wired and wireless communications, unveiled its FCoE offload solution on converged network adapter (CNA) platform at Cisco Live.

The company says that the solution is 80 per cent faster than the nearest competitor and can give performance speeds of up to 1.7 million input/output operations per second (IOPs).

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Broadcom's FCoE-based converged network solutions allow IT professionals to unite data and storage networks on a common 10GbE fabric, while reducing the cost of power, cooling and cabling, claims the company.

Broadcom's FCoE solution, as tested by EMC, supports multiprotocols including Level 2 (L2) networking, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) offload, and now FCoE offload connectivity. 

Broadcom has completed EMC E-Lab interoperability testing with EMC's storage arrays along with Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco Unified Computing System, Brocade 8000 switches, and Dell Blade servers.

Vinod Lakhani, General Manager, High Speed Controllers, Broadcom, said: "IT professionals rely on Broadcom's network and storage solutions and now have the option to extend that functionality to upcoming FCoE deployments. By combining innovation honed over five generations of Ethernet controller technology, together with the expertise of industry leaders throughout the space, we have successfully delivered the highest performance FCoE-based CNA solutions in the industry."