IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom
Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in
semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications,
today announced the second release of the Broadcom Open Network
Switch Library (OpenNSL), the industry's most complete collection
of open network application programming interfaces (APIs). With
double the number of production-ready Open APIs now available,
OpenNSL 2.0 enables the development of innovative open source
networking projects on Broadcom's best-in-class silicon
platforms. For more news, visit Broadcom's Newsroom.
The new version of OpenNSL helps customers to accelerate time to
market, and share innovation across a wide range of switch
platforms. Since its initial launch in March
2015, OpenNSL has quickly gained broad industry support and
enabled the rapid deployment of open network operating systems
including HP OpenSwitch. Broadcom is also working with
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Original Design
Manufacturers (ODMs), large data center customers and cloud
providers to support a wider set of use cases.
"Broadcom's OpenNSL APIs enable a broad developer ecosystem to
address the emerging requirements for next-generation networking
equipment," said Nick Kucharewski,
Broadcom Vice President, Network Switch Marketing. "Our
latest OpenNSL release expands the Broadcom switch innovations
available to the developer community, and will enable the most
comprehensive feature-set among open-networking platforms."
"OpenSwitch is a significant project for cloud networking and
the open source ecosystem," said Tom
Black, Vice President of Research and Development, HP
Networking. "In support of the OpenSwitch efforts, Broadcom's
OpenNSL can help customers with demanding cloud applications
expedite time-to-market by providing a complete set of qualified
software drivers and proven switch silicon."
OpenNSL 2.0 has over 100 new APIs that support new features
such as:
- L2/L3/VLAN management
- Link monitoring
- Packet transmit and Receive
- Port and switch management
- Spanning tree
- Statistics
- Error handling
- Buffer Statistics Tracking
Availability
Broadcom's OpenNSL platform is available on Broadcom GitHub.
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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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Public Relations
408-922-6161
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Investors
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Andrew
Vice President,
Treasury & Investor Relations
949-926-6932
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Desai
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949-926-4425
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