Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today that it has delivered
the StrataXGS® Tomahawk
® 4 switch series,
demonstrating an unprecedented 25.6 Terabits/sec of Ethernet
switching performance in a single device— double the bandwidth of
any other switch silicon available in the market today.
Delivered in less than two years after the previous 12.8Tbps
product generation, Tomahawk 4 is implemented in 7nm technology
with 512 50G PAM4 SerDes. Tomahawk 4’s high level of
integration and highly efficient architecture delivers up to 75
percent lower power and cost compared to alternative solutions.
The growth of hyperscale cloud networks continues its
unrelenting upward trend, with bandwidth increasing by 25 percent
and storage by 36 percent year-over-year[1]. Workloads for
deep learning, using massively distributed neural networks and
alternative computing nodes, require a dramatic increase in
bandwidth with dense 100/200/400GbE links spanning high-radix,
ultra-low-latency network topologies.
The continued trend towards disaggregated, high-density flash
storage is concurrently demanding step functions in network
throughput and reduced end-to-end access times. With its
market-leading switching performance, high 100/200/400GbE port
density, and rich feature set optimized for cloud use cases,
Broadcom’s Tomahawk 4 is ideally suited to serve as the backbone
for the next generation of hyperscale data center networks.
“The Tomahawk franchise is the flagship for cutting-edge,
single-chip performance and integration among Broadcom’s
multi-vectored Ethernet switch silicon portfolio, tailored to the
unique and rigorous demands of hyperscale data center operators,”
said Ram Velaga, senior vice president and general manager, Core
Switching Group, Broadcom. “We are proud of our world-class
engineering team for innovating and delivering the 25.6Tbps
Tomahawk 4 chip in less than two years after we released Tomahawk
3. Broadcom is proving yet again that customers can rely
on us to lead the industry on switch silicon performance and
execution at every generation.”
“Tomahawk 4 is an engineering tour de force, packing an
unprecedented number of serdes into a monolithic 7nm chip,” said
Bob Wheeler, principal analyst, The Linley Group. “As a result,
Broadcom is once again first in delivering the next switch density,
which hyperscalers need as they deploy 400G Ethernet.”
Tomahawk 4 accelerates the adoption of 100/200/400GbE Ethernet
solutions at a point where optics utilizing 50G PAM4 electrical
connectivity are shipping in high volumes. Products from
Broadcom’s Optical Systems Division, which offers a suite of
optical interconnect solutions supporting 50G PAM4 and 100G PAM4
optical data rates, complement Broadcom’s switch chips. The
combination of switches and pluggable optics from Broadcom provides
a complete system-level solution with plug-and-play
functionality.
StrataXGS Tomahawk 4 Series Key Benefits:
- Enables the next generation of high-throughput, low latency
hyperscale networks with 64 ports of 400GbE switching and
routing.
- World’s highest radix of 100GbE ports: 256 ports supported on a
single chip, enabling low-latency, single-hop networks for massive
alternative compute clusters.
- Robust connectivity using 512 instances of the industry’s
highest performance and longest-reach 50G PAM4 SerDes core,
enabling long-reach East-West optical links and
Direct-Attached-Copper in-rack cabling in the data
center.
- The industry’s most advanced 25.6Tbps shared-buffer
architecture, offering up to 5X higher incast absorption and
providing the highest performance and lowest end-to-end latency for
RoCEv2 workloads.
- New advanced load balancing mechanisms, virtually eliminating
hash polarization and providing extremely efficient, controllable
link utilization.
- Advanced congestion management, enabling new traffic management
paradigms.
- Industry-leading instrumentation including IFA 2.0 for inband
telemetry, postcards for out-of-band telemetry, SerDes link quality
meters, and visibility into all on-chip packet drops and congestion
events.
- Four 1 GHz ARM processors for high-bandwidth,
fully-programmable streaming telemetry and sophisticated embedded
applications such as on-chip statistics summarization.
- Implemented with unparalleled power efficiency in a monolithic
7nm die.
Broadcom also announced the introduction of Broadcom Open
Network Switch APIs (OpenNSA), opening its SDK APIs for StrataXGS
and StrataDNX products. Multiple open source network operating
system initiatives are underway in the disaggregation ecosystem,
focused on hyperscale and service provider markets. OpenNSA enables
these initiatives on merchant silicon and allows the larger
community to build on top of these efforts. OpenNSA also expands
Open Compute Project efforts, like Switch Abstraction Interface
(SAI), by simplifying the process of translating SAI APIs to
Broadcom SDK APIs. Moreover, OpenNSA accelerates the SDN ecosystem
by enhancing the toolset available for the developer community.
Industry Quotes: Yiqun Cai, Vice
President of Network, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence“Alibaba
Cloud has worked closely with Broadcom on Tomahawk 4 products. With
Broadcom’s Tomahawk 4, Alibaba Cloud is able to accelerate the
adoption of 100/200/400GbE Ethernet solutions and provide faster
and better solutions to our customers.”
Amin Vahdat, Fellow and Vice President, Systems
Infrastructure, Google Cloud“We are excited to collaborate
with Broadcom to bring the Tomahawk switch series to market to
support the scaling requirements of modern data center
networks."
Yuval Bachar, Principal Hardware Architect, Azure
Platforms, Microsoft“With the exponential growth of
network capacities and high-volume deployments of 100G and 400G the
25.6T Tomahawk 4 will be a major building block for that evolution.
Broadcom has demonstrated with its sampling of Tomahawk 4, yet
again, the leadership in delivering the cutting-edge technology for
networking, with a focus on end-user requirements optimization,
feature set optimization, and integration in a single chip as a
base building block for the next wave of data center build-outs.
The enhanced forwarding, load balancing, buffering, and congestion
control capabilities will address essential needs for hyperscale
workloads and will enable the next generation of platforms and
networks to be built.”
Wen Temitim, Chief Technology Officer,
StackPath“The build-out of the intelligent edge is
underway, and StackPath is thrilled to see the availability of
Tomahawk 4. With the edge being premium, but limited real estate,
Tomahawk 4's monolithic design is the best architecture for power,
performance, and economics. The doubling of bandwidth is a
significant advancement in the industry, and we are excited to take
advantage of Broadcom's latest innovations.”
Wade Shao, Deputy Director, Network Architecture Center,
Tencent“Tencent applauds Broadcom for achieving yet
another industry first with the release of the Tomahawk 4 25.6Tbps.
Broadcom’s consistent engineering execution to their Ethernet
switch roadmap has enabled Tencent to continuously upgrade our
network infrastructure, while achieving economies of scale thanks
to the broad ecosystem enabled by Broadcom's merchant silicon
strategy."
Jason Black, Head of Global Network Infrastructure,
Uber“At Uber, we have been deploying leading-edge Ethernet
speeds and feeds to guarantee the highest possible network
performance for the best end-user experience. Broadcom's StrataXGS
Tomahawk product line has been a key technology component in our
worldwide data center design. With the arrival of Tomahawk 4
25.6Tbps, it ushers in the era of 400GbE leaf-spine CLOS
deployment, and enables Uber to support ever-increasing workloads
for autonomous vehicle, SaaS, and big data applications.”
John McCool, Chief Platform Officer, Arista
Networks“The Arista 7060X and 7368X4 Series running EOS®
provide a broad range of solutions for Mega-Scale Cloud datacenter
environments, powered by multiple generations of the Broadcom
Tomahawk architecture. Tomahawk 4 delivers an impressive 25.6T of
bandwidth in a high-radix, power efficient design. These
innovations enable tomorrow’s Cloud datacenter architectures that
collapse network layers, provide improved host-to-host performance,
while reducing the complexity of the network.” Tom Burns,
SVP and GM, Dell EMC Networking and Solutions“Broadcom is
making important, impressive advancements with Tomahawk 4 that
enhance our PowerSwitch open networking capabilities. The advanced
shared buffer architecture enables high bandwidth scale-out
networking infrastructure with low port-to-port latency for deep
learning and hyperscale environments. The new telemetry features
will enable a much needed and highly transparent physical layer,
supporting our vision of the autonomous data center.”
Anand Athreya, EVP and Chief Development Officer,
Juniper Networks “Juniper is excited to partner with
Broadcom and double the capacity of DC platforms with Tomahawk 4.
Broadcom’s sustained execution allows Juniper to keep providing an
extensive routing and switching portfolio, one that combines
best-of-breed silicon technology with JunOS, the industry’s most
advanced network operating system, and addresses the leading-edge
requirements of our customers.”
Liu Zhongdong, President and CEO, Ruijie
Networks.“Ruijie is dedicated to providing a broad
portfolio of advanced networking equipment to our Cloud customers.
With Tomahawk 4’s bandwidth doubling existing switch silicon, and
rich cloud-optimized feature set, including best-in-class
instrumentation, we will be able to provide our customers with the
capabilities demanded by next-generation Cloud networks.”
Edgar Masri, CEO, Accton Technology
Corporation“Tomahawk 4, 25.6Tbps, is an exciting
achievement for Broadcom as many of our hyperscale customers are
upgrading their network infrastructure to support their
ever-increasing application demands. At Accton Group, we have
collaborated closely with Broadcom on a rich portfolio of
networking platforms, and we look forward to offering this new wave
of Tomahawk 4-based solutions in the very near future.”
Allen Cheng, General Manager, Alpha Networks
Inc.“Alpha has been working with Broadcom's StrataXGS
product family for several generations. We congratulate Broadcom
for being first-to-market with Tomahawk 4, and we look forward to
offering a new portfolio of platforms based on this groundbreaking
25.6 Terabit switching ASIC.”
Steven Dorwart, Vice President, Service Provider
Solutions, Celestica Inc.“As a leader in the disaggregated
Ethernet networking ecosystem, Celestica knows the importance of
time-to-market. Broadcom is setting the pace with the delivery of
Tomahawk 4, and Celestica is excited to develop platforms based on
this latest 25.6Tbps switching ASIC.”
Jeff Chen, CEO, Delta Networks“The pace of
innovation in the Ethernet networking space is driven by the
hyperscalers. With the latest Tomahawk 4 from Broadcom, Delta can
expand our portfolio offering to our customers and deliver
state-of-the-art 64x400G and 256x100G platforms.”
Jack Tsai, SVP and General Manager, Inventec
Corporation“Broadcom has maintained a torrid pace of
innovation and execution for its Tomahawk product line. The newest
addition to the product family, Tomahawk 4 25.6T, is well suited
for many of our customer’s use cases. We are proud to participate
in this revolutionary product development, and we look forward to
great mutual success through our cooperation with Broadcom.”
Mike Yang, Senior Vice President of Quanta Computer Inc.
and President of Quanta Cloud Technology, Quanta “Once
again, Broadcom has executed flawlessly and maintained its
leadership position in the Ethernet switch market. Tomahawk 4,
25.6Tbps, is an engineering marvel, as the 7nm ASIC provides the
highest bandwidth in the industry, and provides flexibility to
support 50, 100, 200, and 400GbE ports. QCT is very proud to be
Broadcom's ecosystem partner for this flagship product.”
Joshua Yeh, General Manager, Transmission Network and
Equipment Business Unit, Applied Optoelectronics Inc.“The
25.6T bandwidth point represents an important incremental upgrade
for datacenter users. Its ability to leverage an existing high
volume, qualified broad optics portfolio as provided by AOI's
QSFP-DD and OSFP modules, is critical to enable cost effective time
deployment of next generation datacenter networks.”
Osa Mok, Chief Marketing Officer of Innolight Technology
Corporation “Broadcom's Tomahawk 4 is well positioned to
support the needs of hyperscale users. While it delivers 2x the
bandwidth, it still preserves the industry standard 8x50G interface
for 400G connectivity. This is well aligned with Innolight's OSFP
and QSFP optical transceiver products which are already in mass
production, and are qualified at major datacenter operators.”
AvailabilityBroadcom is now shipping
Tomahawk 4 BCM56990 devices to qualified customers. For more
information on the Tomahawk 4 and all Broadcom products and
solutions please click here.
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[1] Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology,
2016-2021 White
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