BCM56624, BCM56720, BCM56820
Broadcom Expands the Market for Merchant Switch Silicon With New StrataXGS® 4 Switching Architecture
As today's network continues to evolve, bandwidth requirements for service providers and data centers are growing at an unprecedented rate. Traditionally, equipment manufacturers have relied on custom application specific ICs (ASICs) or field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for their high- end networking products in these markets. This approach, however, has high development and product costs, a lengthy time-to-market, and results in a product that consumes too much power and is difficult to manage.
The Broadcom® StrataXGS® 4 multi-layer switch family in 65nm enables OEMs to build single high-density systems that meet the cost, power, performance and scalability requirements of service provider, data center and enterprise markets using a merchant silicon solution. Broadcom's 4th generation StrataXGS architecture utilizes a low power, 65nm CMOS process technology to enable the scalability necessary for data center 3.0 applications, the security required for enterprise networks, as well as the protocols and quality of service (QoS) needed to implement next generation service provider networks.
The StrataXGS 4 multi-layer switch family includes two new products: the BCM56624 and BCM56720. A third product, the BCM56820 was announced in November 2007 and completes the product family.
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