BCM56640 and BCM56540 StrataXGS® Switch Series
Breakthrough Innovation and Integration Delivers 100 GbE Performance to Carrier Ethernet Platforms
Global IP traffic is expected to quadruple over the next several years, driving the need for a faster and more efficient aggregation network. Broadcom is meeting that challenge with two new feature-rich series of Carrier Ethernet aggregation switch solutions. Broadcom's latest high performance StrataXGS® switch series are optimized to meet the bandwidth, scalability and efficiency demands of next-generation Carrier Ethernet aggregation platforms.
With the industry's highest level of integration, the new solutions deliver up to 40% lower power consumption coupled with a vast increase in forwarding scale and flexibility.
- Ideally suited to enable PTN and IP-RAN network deployments with the latest innovations in MPLS, OAM, time synchronization, and protection switching
- New 10/40/100 GbE switching solutions dramatically increase provider aggregation network bandwidth and scale while reducing system power consumption by up to 40 percent
- Flexible forwarding and port logic optimized for a new paradigm of centralized switch silicon system architectures
The StrataXGS BCM56640 series for modular platforms, and the StrataXGS BCM56540 series for fixed carrier Ethernet platforms, deliver the industry's highest port speeds and scale in their class. The flexible StrataXGS architecture underlying both families is ideally suited for both transport-oriented (PTN) and IP-oriented (IP-RAN) aggregation network deployments, providing operators with greater capacity and service density while controlling operational costs.
Both the StrataXGS BCM56640 and BCM56540 series feature the latest Carrier Ethernet innovations including MPLS-TP, MPLS OAM, integrated time synchronization, upgraded protection switching, and extensive IPv4 and IPv6 routing resources.
Complete Portfolio for Carrier Ethernet
With the award-winning BCM88600 series for the core of the network, the BCM56440 series for access and mobile backhaul, and now the BCM56640 and BCM56540 series for the aggregation portion of the network, Broadcom delivers the industry's most complete and compelling offerings for Carrier Ethernet.
Product Features
BCM56640 Series Features
- 240 Gbps fully-integrated multilayer Carrier Ethernet aggregation switch for modular platforms
- Unites integrated 10G serial technology with massive forwarding scale to deliver single-chip line cards from 48xGE up through 100GE
- Latest generation expandable TCAM interface offers a platform for up to 512K IPv6 longest-prefix route lookups
BCM56540 Series Features
- 180 Gbps fully-integrated multilayer Carrier Ethernet switch for fixed platforms
- New flexible port logic allows per-SerDes sharing between GE, 2.5GE, and 10GE modes, delivering unprecedented flexibility for centralized switch silicon system architectures
- New flexible forwarding technology allows providers to allocate lookup resources on a per-application basis, vastly improving the application range of a given system solution
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