Broadcom has announced new high-performance silicon products for the advanced networking market. The already shipping Trident SmartToR (Smart Top-of-Rack) is designed for software-defined switching, routing and L4-L7 services, while the expanded range of StrataXGS Tomahawk 4 chips for switches and routers targets hyperscale data centres.
The Trident SmarToR offers “orders of magnitude” better performance than merchant silicon currently available in the market, Broadcom said. It targets the top level of high-performance, advanced network services, offering the ability to track 3 million connections with 3 million connection-level policies, as well as 1 million tunnels and over 1 million stateful counters for metering and telemetry.
Trident SmartToR uses a software-defined pipeline that enables user-defined instrumentation and analytics at the packet and connection level with nanosecond resolution. Trident SmartToR can also perform essential analytics filtering functions such as deduplication, categorization, and summarization to provide specific and actionable insights. It comes with integrated line-rate MACSec/ IPSec for pervasive security, powered by a programmable encryption engine, which maintains operational flexibility while securing network traffic.
The 25.6 Tbps Tomahawk4-50G first started sampling a year ago and is now shipping in volume. Broadcom is expanding the range to include the Tomahawk4-100G at 25.6Tbps and Tomahawk4-12.8T at 12.8 Tbps, each with 100G PAM4. Developed for the high demands of hyperscale data centres, the products are built on 7nm production technology and have common APIs shared with all other Broadcom switch/routing silicon.
Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.
Subscribe now
We welcome comments that add value to the discussion. We attempt to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam, and our editors frequently review the comments to ensure they are appropriate. If you see a comment that you believe is inappropriate to the discussion, you can bring it to our attention by using the report abuse links. As the comments are written and submitted by visitors of the Telecompaper website, they in no way represent the opinion of Telecompaper.