BCM88200 series, BCM88100 series
Broadcom Lights Up the Cloud with Industry's First Complete Silicon Solution for the Network Core
Traffic in today's data center, enterprise and service provider networks is growing at an extraordinary rate. Cloud computing, virtualized networks and Internet video are no longer concepts, but 'must-haves.' To deliver the performance demanded by high bandwidth 'always on' networks, modular Ethernet switches must support complex, scalable protocols, deliver extremely high throughput, and provide deep buffering to avoid packet loss. Until now, networking OEMs were forced to piece together combinations of custom ASICs, expensive FPGAs and/or disparate components from niche suppliers to develop high-end modular systems. However, this approach results in high development costs, lengthy time-to-market, and a product that is often not optimized for cost, power or performance.
To address this industry concern, Broadcom developed the XGS Core™ fabric architecture that adds a high performance fabric solution to our widely deployed StrataXGS switch product portfolio. The Broadcom XGS Core fabric solution consists of two product series: the BCM88200 high performance traffic manager and fabric interface and the BCM88100 scalable switch fabric.
This new fabric architecture eliminates the burdens associated with custom ASICs, FPGAs and cumbersome third party components by providing an end-to-end silicon and software solution. Network system vendors can now use a standard silicon solution to build low power, high density modular Ethernet switches that can scale up to 1 Terabit per line card and support up to 100 GbE speeds.
More Information
- View the XGS Core™ Press Release
- Go to the BCM88235 Product Page
- Go to the BCM88230 Product Page
- Go to the BCM88130 Product Page
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