Brocade integrates Altera’s 120G and 150G Interlaken IP into multi-terabit core routers

HONG KONG: Altera Corp. announced its Interlaken intellectual property (IP) core has been qualified and selected for production shipments in Brocade MLX Series multi-terabit core routers for use in datacenters.

The Interlaken IP is implemented on a Stratix V FPGA and helps enable Brocade routers to rapidly and efficiently scale cloud-optimized networks. Using Altera FPGAs and IP to scale cloud-optimized networks allows businesses to manage high volumes of network data and make real-time decisions based on the results.

"Altera provides us a single Interlaken IP design that is extremely configurable and robust, which enables the high-bandwidth efficiencies required on our various line module configurations. This unique, single configurable design, coupled with our service cost model infrastructure, benefits our enterprise and service provider customers who have tight budgets and require a specific set of services," said Majid Afshar, VP, ASIC and hardware engineering, Brocade.

"Altera's Interlaken IP delivers the bandwidth scalability and data efficiency our customers require for Big Data, but also for other applications that require high-rate data transfers through the network."