IRVINE, Calif., July 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
News Highlights:
- Integrated flow processing engine, TruFlow™, increases server
performance by up to 50 percent
- High performance 50G throughput delivers 30M packets per second
with low latency
- Industry's lowest power, smallest package 25/50G solution
improves efficiency of cloud servers
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader
in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications,
today introduced a new, scalable 10G/25G/40G/50G Ethernet
controller product family. The BCM57300 NetXtreme®
C-Series delivers the industry's lowest power and smallest package
25/50G solution for the cloud data center market. With this
introduction, Broadcom further extends its end-to-end portfolio and
reinforces its commitment to meeting the current and future needs
of cloud-scale data centers. For more news, visit Broadcom's
Newsroom.
With almost half of cloud service providers' servers virtualized
and the number of virtual machines per server expected to double to
96 by 20171, it is critical for next-generation Ethernet
controllers to accelerate the increased flow processing driven by
virtualization. Broadcom's NetXtreme C-Series controllers deliver
bidirectional 50G throughput with 30Mpps performance and the
increased flow processing that data centers need to support higher
virtual machine density. Integrated flow processing with TruFlow
can double network throughput and provide up to a 50 percent
increase in application performance compared to a software-only
solution.
When combined with the StrataXGS®
Tomahawk™ Ethernet Switch, the NetXtreme C-Series
controllers form an industry-leading 25/50G end-to-end solution for
data centers that delivers connectivity in accordance with the
Broadcom co-founded 25/50G Consortium and draft IEEE standard. The
BCM57300 provides rapid, hardware-based, congestion notification
responses that are 5,000x faster than traditional software-based
approaches. When combined with StrataXGS switches, data centers are
able to avoid network congestion before it happens, enabling
deterministic workload performance across the network.
"NetXtreme C-Series raises the bar for Ethernet controllers and
enables a cost-effective path from 10G to 25G," said Rajiv Ramaswami, Broadcom Executive Vice
President and General Manager, Infrastructure & Networking
Group. "Pushing the 25/50G Ethernet specification, which Broadcom
defined and co-founded as an industry standard, to the server
endpoint solidifies Broadcom's end-to-end offering."
"Our cloud data centers are growing at a rapid pace,"
said Liu Tao, Baidu Inc. Sr. System Architect. "Provisioning
flexibility and network performance are key factors for both bare
metal and virtual cloud services. We see 25G connections to the
server as a compelling upgrade cycle. It is also critical that next
generation controllers find mechanisms to scale the management of
the increasingly large number of servers in our data centers."
"Our data center customers see traffic demand continually
growing, and they need efficient and cost-effective solutions to
scale to that demand," said Jyeh Gan, Dell Director, Product
Management and Strategy, Data Center Solutions. "25G/50G Ethernet,
coupled with advanced virtualization support and standards-based
provisioning, represents a leap forward for data centers faced with
the challenges of managing rapid growth. We are pleased to see
Broadcom support Open Networking with compelling 25G/50G Ethernet
solutions."
"Broadcom's NetXtreme C-Series of mezzanine adapters are a
welcome addition to the Open Compute Project community," said
Corey Bell, Open Compute Project
Foundation CEO. "The unparalleled combination of 25/50G throughput
and low power, in an open standard form factor, will facilitate the
rapid adoption of 25G and 50G solutions for the cloud data
center."
"The Broadcom NetXtreme C-Series Ethernet controller, when
combined with the VMware NSX network virtualization platform, can
provide an optimized infrastructure for building out a modern
software-defined data center," said Hatem
Naguib, VMware Vice President, Networking and Security.
"With support for Geneve and VXLAN
encapsulation offloads, the NetXtreme C-Series controller further
enhances the efficiency and security of overlay data center
networks. With high packet per-second processing capabilities,
customers will also benefit from DPDK-based software gateways at
the edge of the network that provide both flexibility and
performance."
"As a result of initial large-scale cloud deployments we are
forecasting that 25G/50G adapters and controllers will ramp much
faster than 40G. Furthermore, as this technology sees broader
market adoption, we expect that 25G/50G will continue to gain share
and account for the second-largest shipment volumes, behind
10G, within four years of first shipments," said Seamus Crehan, Crehan Research President. "The
combination of Broadcom's end-to-end solution — comprised of the
NetXtreme C-Series controllers with the StrataXGS Tomahawk Series
data center switches — is poised for considerable traction as these
products enable data center operators to economically and
efficiently scale their networks to handle ever-increasing traffic
demands."
Bringing the Network Edge into the Server
Broadcom's
NetXtreme C-Series Controllers feature the TruFlow engine, which
processes flows rather than just packets, extending the network
edge into the server Network Interface Card (NIC). Numerous
benefits arise from distributing the flow processing from the Top
of Rack (ToR) and server host CPU into the NIC, including:
- vSwitch Acceleration: Today, the server host CPU
processes network packets from each Virtual Machine (VM) as if it
were a physical switch in the network (called a virtual switch or
vSwitch), performing functions such as editing, classifying,
policing, and forwarding, all in software, and consuming valuable
host CPU cycles. As the number of VMs per server has
increased, it is not uncommon for more than 33 percent of the
processing capability in a server to be spent on virtual switching.
TruFlow enables data center operators to move this virtual
switching from the host CPU into the Broadcom C-Series Controller,
increasing available CPU cycles for application processing, and
potentially increasing application performance up to 50
percent.
- Flow Scalability: The rapid growth of mega-scale cloud
data centers has increased complexity in network scaling and
management. TruFlow distributes flow processing into the server
endpoints, allowing data center growth without impacting network
and application performance.
- Software Defined Networking (SDN): TruFlow
implements the fundamental SDN protocol constructs of
classification/match/action processing in hardware, including the
latest OpenFlow standard. Distributing SDN protocols into the
BCM57300 enables cloud operators to reap the benefits of SDN in
their data centers with a flexible, scalable and dynamic
network.
Additional NetXtreme C-Series Features
- Low power: <5W
- Low chip latency: 1.5-µs round trip
- Dual-Port 10/25G and single-port 40/50G
- Industry's smallest (14x14 mm) 25/50G Controller package
- Integrated base management controller (BMC)
Availability
Broadcom offers two families of standard
adapter cards for customer deployment; PCIe NIC and OCP Mezzanine.
Both adapter card families are based on the cloud-optimized
BCM57300 NetXtreme C-Series of Ethernet controllers and are
sampling now.
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