Broadcom Extends Leadership with New StrataXGS Trident II Switch Series Optimized for Cloud-Scale Data Center Networks

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Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today introduced the StrataXGS® Trident II Series, a new line of Ethernet switching solutions optimized to meet the bandwidth, scalability and efficiency demands of cloud networking environments and mega data centers. Visit www.broadcom.com to learn more.

Based on Broadcom’s award winning StrataXGS architecture, the new 10/40 GbE series is the first to deliver more than 100 10GbE ports, a 4X increase in network virtualization scale and a 2X increase in forwarding and classification tables, enabling a significant return on investment on private and multi-tenant public cloud computing infrastructure connectivity…

Public and private cloud, Web 2.0 and other high-bandwidth data center applications are driving the need for higher scale and efficiency in the data center. Broadcom’s StrataXGS Trident II Series delivers the most complete network switching feature set at the highest bandwidth and port density in the industry, enabling cost-effective and high performance data center build-out to an unprecedented number of server and storage endpoints, applications and users.

Fast, Fat and Flat Networks with New SmartSwitch Technologies

The StrataXGS Trident II Series features new SmartSwitch technologies designed to break through traditional silicon and system-imposed performance barriers in cloud-scale networking. Increased performance needs for server-to-server and server-to-storage communication are driving the need for fast, fat and flat networks. Dynamic workload placement and the need for granular traffic visibility, load balancing and diagnostics are similarly driving more flexible software defined networks (SDN). The new SmartSwitch technologies include:

Smart-NV: Delivers up to 4X greater scale, enabling SDN virtualization across both virtual and physical workloads at wire-speed. Enables cloud-scale network infrastructure virtualization using advanced Layer 2 over Layer 3 (L2oL3) network virtualization technologies such as NVGRE and VXLAN.
Smart-Buffer: Delivers up to 5X higher packet buffer utilization and burst absorption performance using innovative traffic load-based intelligent and dynamic allocation schemes.
Smart-Table: Delivers highest Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding scale with network topology-based profiling for maximum deployment flexibility.
Smart-Hash: Eliminates polarization and load imbalances in fat-tree networks possessing heavy and diverse traffic patterns. Provides unprecedented network traffic visibility and diagnostics required by software defined networking.

Market Drivers

Annual global data center IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes by 20151
Overall cloud IP traffic will grow at a CAGR of 66 percent from 2012 – 20151
Predicted to account for more than one-third (34 percent) of total data center traffic1
Public cloud workloads expected to grow at a 50 percent CAGR from 2012 – 20152
40 percent of servers are virtualized today and are projected to reach 75 percent by 20153
Data center 10GE ports projected to grow at a 40 percent CAGR from 2012 – 20164
40GE ports projected to grow at a 130 percent CAGR of from 2012 – 20164

StrataXGS Trident II Key Features

Enables unprecedented 10/40GbE single chip switch configurations
100+ 10GbE ports with flexibility to support up to 32 40GbE ports
First integrated switch delivers NVGRE and VXLAN L2oL3 transit and gateway switch technologies
Supports industry’s highest equal cost multipathing-based fat-tree networking scale on a single chip
Greater FCoE network scale enabling true LAN/SAN convergence – up to 4X increase in forwarding entries
High port density with direct attach to SFP+/QSFP modules and KR Backplanes
Integrated IEEE 1588 1-step timing solution
Delivers 40 percent reduction in bill of material costs and 30 percent better phase accuracy

Availability

The StrataXGS Trident II Series includes multiple device options and is sampling this quarter. See Broadcom’s full line of solutions for cloud-scale networking this week at VMworld® 2012, Moscone Center, San Francisco (booth #2107).