Broadcom Empowers Meta’s Data Center Network Fabric With World’s Highest Bandwidth Ethernet Switch Chip
November 09 2021 - 12:30PM
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) today announced that Meta is now
deploying the world’s highest bandwidth Ethernet switch chip, the
Broadcom StrataXGS® Tomahawk
® 4 switch
series, in its data center network fabric. A leading-edge 25.6 Tbps
Ethernet switch, the Tomahawk4 is now shipping in high volume in
Meta’s Minipack2 platform— an industry first.
“Broadcom is pleased to support Meta and its ecosystem partners
on the transition to a leading-edge 25.6Tbps networking fabric,”
said Ram Velaga, senior vice president and general manager, Core
Switching Group, Broadcom. “Our multi-year collaborative effort has
resulted in the successful integration of multiple generations of
the marketplace’s highest bandwidth Tomahawk switch chip into
Meta’s industry- leading Wedge400 and Minipack2 networking
platforms.”
The Tomahawk family has consistently led the market in switching
bandwidth. This has continued with the Tomahawk4 family shipping in
volume for over one year, remaining the only 25.6Tbps solution in
production today. Members of the Tomahawk4 family, currently in
production, include the Tomahawk4-50G, Tomahawk4-100G and
Tomahawk4-12.8T.
The Tomahawk4 switch series provides the world’s lowest power
per bit of throughput, enabling significant savings in operational
expense and allowing for ultra-high density network equipment. The
variety of SerDes speeds and bandwidth points provided by the
Tomahawk4 devices, enable direct connection to high-volume 200Gbps,
400Gbps, and 800Gbps optics.
The Broadcom Tomahawk3, the Tomahawk4’s predecessor, has been
shipping in production since 2018. It has been deployed in Meta’s
previous and current generation platforms. The Tomahawk4 and
Tomahawk3 are the foundation of numerous hyperscale data center
fabrics worldwide with a broad ecosystem of ODMs, OEMs, and Network
Operating System partners.
In addition to Tomahawk4, Minipack2 uses Broadcom’s 7nm
Barchetta2, a 16×56-Gb/s full-duplex PHY,
featuring demonstrated interoperability with Broadcom merchant
switches and ASICs. This 400G/200G/100G retimer is
designed with industry-leading 56-Gbps PAM4 Serdes architecture
that supports greater than 30dB of insertion loss on both host and
line interfaces.
Today, Ram Velaga, senior vice president and general manager,
Broadcom, will join Omar Baldanado, director of Engineering, Meta,
on stage at the 2021 Open Compute Project Global Summit in San
Jose, California, to discuss the companies’ multi-collaborative
efforts. The session titled, “Networking and New Data Center
Challenges- Presented by Meta,” will take place at 9:17a.m., SJCC-
Concourse Level- Grand Ballroom 220.
AvailabilityTomahawk 4, Tomahawk 3, and
Barchetta2 are currently in high volume production. For more
information on the Tomahawk switch series, Barchetta2, and all
Broadcom products and solutions please click here.
About BroadcomBroadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:
AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs,
develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and
infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading
product portfolio serves critical markets including data center,
networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and
industrial. Our solutions include data center
networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber
security software focused on automation, monitoring and security,
smartphone components, telecoms and factory
automation. For more information, go to
https://www.broadcom.com.
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