Mar 24 2010
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM) , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the industry's first 40 nanometer (nm) quad-channel 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) devices that provide ultra low power consumption and savings of approximately 30 percent over competing 65nm CMOS solutions.
The Broadcom® BCM84750 series enables the convergence of 10GbE and Fibre Channel equipment in the data center supporting unified networking and storage applications, as well as high density, high bandwidth server applications, scaled to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) designs in the future.
Utilizing Broadcom's field proven digital signal processing (DSP) technology, the BCM84750 series of quad all-DSP 10GbE PHYs enables IT professionals to preserve their existing fiber infrastructures by providing a low cost upgrade path from 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) to 10GbE and beyond, up to 40GbE. This unique high-speed DSP technology, coupled with the 40nm design, provides significant performance, manufacturing and reliability advantages over competing analog solutions and will help drive the transition to 10GbE by leveraging the cost effective SFP+ standard.
Highlights/Key Facts:
-- Today's networking equipment, such as high-end routers, network
aggregation switches, blade servers and top-of-rack data center
switches, require increased densities to address growing bandwidth and
throughput needs of the enterprise. To enable these high port count
systems, low cost module solutions, such as SFP+ with support for both
fiber and direct attached copper interfaces, are shipping in volume
today.
-- Broadcom is uniquely positioned to address the needs of the high
density SFP+ market with its new BCM84750 series quad-channel 10GbE
SFI-to-XFI PHY solutions.
-- These new transceivers exceed the requirements of the IEEE 802.3aq
standard, which was developed to provide a low cost 10x speed
upgrade for existing Gigabit Ethernet links in multi-mode fiber
applications.
-- The BCM84750 series of quad 10GbE SFI-to-XFI PHYs build upon seven
generations of field proven 10GbE serial PHY technology and implements
Broadcom's electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) equalizer
technology.
-- EDC extends the transmission distance significantly by maintaining
the integrity and quality of the signal and improves networking
efficiency, enabling a seamless, cost effective upgrade to
existing enterprise and metro service transport networks.
-- The BCM84750 series features support for 8/4/2G Fibre Channel,
enabling unified data center switches that can support 10GbE, Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or native Fibre Channel on each port.
-- The BCM84750 series furthers Broadcom's position as a leading provider
of 10 Gigabit (10G) PHY products that support backplane, twisted-pair
and optical front panel applications. This product portfolio includes
support for all 10G PHY standards including 10GBASE-T, 10GBASE-KR,
10GBASE-LRM, 10GBASE-SR/LR and 10GBASE-ER/ZR.
-- The BCM84750 series joins Broadcom's other complementary silicon
solutions for the data center:
-- BCM56840 - 40nm 64-port 10GbE switch
-- BCM84834 - 40nm quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY
-- BCM57712 - 10GbE dual-port converged network interface controller
(C-NIC)
-- The BCM84750 series of quad-channel 10GbE SFI-to-XFI PHYs is now
sampling to early access customers and includes the BCM84753 and
BCM84754.
Supporting Quotes:
Lorenzo Longo, Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom's High-Speed Interconnect Products line of business
"Our new 40nm 10GbE PHY offerings leverage our existing DSP architecture to deliver superior performance and scalability for data center applications, and with ultra low power consumption, addresses the power and cooling issues that face today's data center operators. IT professionals can scale their capacity while preserving their existing fiber infrastructure by upgrading from 1GbE to 10GbE and beyond to 40GbE."
Source: http://www.broadcom.com/