IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation
leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless
communications, today announced the industry's first fully
integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) for the virtual customer premise
equipment (vCPE) market. Broadcom's latest SoC is designed to
provide carriers with flexibility to add new services in a dynamic,
multi-vendor environment. Broadcom will showcase its innovations
for the mobile and carrier ecosystem at Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona, March 2-5. For more news, visit Broadcom's
Newsroom.
Today's legacy business-access solutions are hard-wired and lack
fault management and standard operations, administration and
management (OAM), thereby impacting the agility to rapidly
provision new services. Broadcom's new SoC gives operators
the ability to decouple services from the physical hardware and run
them on standard compute infrastructure, thus facilitating faster
time-to-market and enabling customers to customize their equipment
based on evolving requirements.
"One of the greatest challenges facing service providers is how
to offer new services to their business customers rapidly and more
cost effectively," said Ed Redmond,
Broadcom Vice President, Compute and Connectivity Group. "By
decoupling service delivery and activation from the physical
infrastructure, Broadcom's integrated and programmable device
enables carriers to turn-up services as virtual network functions
(VNFs) without the need for manual provisioning and expensive truck
rolls."
"China Mobile is an innovator and strong supporter of the
expansion of packet-based transport networking (PTN) for converged
access," said Dr. Li Han, Vice
Director of China Mobile Research Institute's Network Technology
Department. "Through our Super-PTN deployment, we are introducing
PTN for enterprise access with open Software-Defined Networking
interfaces. We welcome the introduction of Broadcom's
BCM88312 vCPE chip to target the need for cost-effective and open
standards solutions for new market expansions."
The Broadcom BCM88312 is an integrated and programmable device
that can be seamlessly connected to the operator's network to
deliver vCPE services. The BCM88312 can be managed over
OpenFlow, based on Broadcom's OpenFlow-Data Plane Abstraction
(OF-DPA) layer framework, thereby extending OF-DPA from the
infrastructure core all the way to the business CPE access.
According to a recent Infonetics report— 'SDN and NFV
Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey' — vCPE was ranked as
the number one use-case for operators looking at virtualizing
networks. "With 52 percent of service providers investing in the
implementation of vCPE in 2014/2015, vCPE is also the number one
revenue generating business use-case," said Michael Howard, Infonetics/IHS Principal
Analyst. "Broadcom's fully integrated device is the first SoC on
the market to integrate the necessary vCPE functions on a single
device, managed with OpenFlow, and supporting a carrier-class
application."
Key Features
- Scalable, Integrated and Programmable
- Integrated Dual Cortex A9 cores @ 1.2GHZ
- Integrated 8-port GE Switch, Serdes, and copper PHYs
- Programmable Processor Forwarding Engine
- Support for 1588v2 / SyncE
- Low-power at 3.5W typical
Availability
The Broadcom BCM88312 is sampling with production-ready
carrier-class reference code, including support for:
- MEF-Compliant E-Line Service, based on MPLS/MPLS-TP
Forwarding
- ETY OAM (802.3ah), Ethernet OAM
(Y1731), BHH / MPLS-TP Fast
OAM(G.8113.1)
- G.8131 MPLS Linear Protection
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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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