IRVINE, Calif., April 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
News Highlights:
- Economical, efficient, feature-rich platform accelerates
enterprise transition to high density 10GbE
- Delivers 30 percent lower power, larger table sizes and double
the network virtualization performance1
- Drop in, hardware-compatible upgrade for Trident-II — the most
pervasive switch SoC in the industry2
- 100GbE ports provide optimized connectivity to
StrataXGS® Tomahawk™ and StrataDNX™ families
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader
in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications,
today announced the next-generation of its StrataXGS Trident
Ethernet switch portfolio, the Trident-II+ Series. Optimized
to meet the bandwidth, scalability and efficiency demands of 10GbE
virtualized data centers, the highly integrated devices offer 1.28
terabit per second (Tbps) switching performance, 30 percent lower
power and double the performance for data center virtualization
overlays, such as VXLAN. For more news, visit Broadcom's
Newsroom.
In today's enterprise data centers, more than 60 percent of
installed servers continue to run Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) network
connections3. The majority of these server ports are
expected to transition to 10GbE over the next four
years3. Broadcom's Trident-II+ Series enables networking
OEMs to deliver a full portfolio of enterprise-optimized,
feature-rich, high-density 10GbE top-of-rack (ToR), blade and
aggregation switches to serve this transition.
Built on Broadcom's industry-leading StrataXGS architecture, the
28 nanometer (nm) Trident-II+ Series provides a simple, drop-in
power and efficiency improvement for the industry's leading switch
silicon, with a comprehensive set of feature and performance
upgrades.
"Over the past five years, multiple StrataXGS Trident
generations have helped drive the adoption of 10GbE in cloud and
mega scale data centers with standard, cost-efficient, merchant
silicon based platforms," said Ram Velaga, Broadcom Senior Vice
President & General Manager, Network Switch. "Our latest
Trident-II+ series offers the economics, performance and
virtualization capabilities required to lead a similar transition
across enterprise data centers worldwide."
Designed for enterprise data centers of all sizes, the
Trident-II+ Series delivers the industry's most comprehensive and
field-proven feature set for network virtualization. This includes
single-pass VXLAN routing that doubles gateway performance in all
network topologies, as well as support for pre-standard
GENEVE overlays.
"The collaboration between Broadcom and VMware to define and
build robust underlay-overlay technologies allows customers today
to deploy fully virtualized networks for greater operational
efficiency," said Hatem Naguib, vice
president, Networking and Security at VMware. "Mainstream
enterprises using our VMware NSX™ network virtualization platform
on top of a StrataXGS Trident-II+ based physical network get
first-class VXLAN support as well as future support for
Geneve – enabling efficient,
secure and agile data center networks."
Providing an ideal complement to Broadcom's latest StrataXGS
Tomahawk and StrataDNX switch SoCs, the Trident II+ Series provides
100GbE connections to the spine layer and between racks, while
supporting 10GbE connections to the servers in enterprise and
private cloud deployments.
"Enterprise data centers are still in the early stages of a very
large upgrade to 10GbE servers and 10GbE top of rack switches,"
said Seamus Crehan, Crehan Research
President. "At the same time, there is growing demand
for cost-effective 100GbE spine switches. As a result of these two
parallel upgrades, we forecast strong enterprise data center demand
for optimized high density 10GbE switches with 100GbE uplinks
through the end of the decade."
Power consumption and cooling is also a top priority in modern
data centers. The Trident II+ Series reduces power dissipation of
existing Trident-II designs throughout the network – by up to 30
percent for each typical ToR switch chipset. For an enterprise data
center hosting 300 ToR switches, this can lead to annual power
savings of well over 100 megawatt hours (MWh), resulting in greater
IT energy efficiency and lower operating expenses.
StrataXGS Trident-II+ (BCM56860) Series Key Features
- Standards-compliant high-density 10GbE/40GbE/100GbE switch
SoC
- Single-pass routing in/out of tunnels (RIOT) at 1.28 Tbps
- High-performance tunneling support for VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, SPB,
and pre-standard Geneve
- 128 low-power optimized 10Gbps serial interfaces with up to 8
ports of 100GbE
- Broadview™ instrumentation featuring buffer statistics tracking
(BST) and flex counters
- Enhanced ContentAware engines with 4x larger ACL rule databases
versus previous generation devices
- OpenFlow 1.3.1+ support scaling to several 10,000's of flows
using OF-DPA and third-party controllers
- Configurable SmartTable technology to maximize L2 MAC,L3 Host,
LPM forwarding database capacities
- Full IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and multicast routing support
- Integrated SmartBuffer for optimal burst absorption, dynamic
thresholding and lossless service
- SmartHash™ flexible engine featuring highly scalable ECMP load
balancing and network resiliency
- FlexPort technology enables dynamically configurable
ports/MACs
- Ethernet Port Multiplier technology supports fine-grained
channelization over Ethernet and enterprise fabrics
Availability
Broadcom's StrataXGS Trident-II+ switch
SoCs are currently sampling.
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Resources
1 As compared to previous
generation StrataXGS Trident-II devices
2 Linley Group, Ethernet Switch Market, 2014
3 Crehan Research 1GbE versus 10GbEbE Server-Class
Adapter & LOM Port Mix, 2015
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is
a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired
and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver
voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office
and mobile environments. With one of the industry's broadest
portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip solutions, Broadcom
is changing the world by connecting everything®. For more
information, go to www.broadcom.com.
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