[187082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Switches with Broadcom StrataDNX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Bedard)
Tue Jan 19 02:01:57 2016
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 02:01:46 -0500
From: Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
To: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>,
NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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The BCM88670 (Jericho) is what powers the new Cisco NCS55XX devices. The pr=
ocessor is linerate above around 100 bytes per packet without external TCAM,=
supports 256K IPv4/64K IPv6 FIB entries (or mixed amounts). These chips ar=
e being used for high scale 100G, the initial NCS5508 linecard is a 36x100G =
QSFP28 one.=20
Juniper has chosen to use their own silicon for most of their dense 100G pl=
atforms, but you=E2=80=99ll see these chips used by pretty much everyone else I im=
agine at some point in the next year. =20
Phil=20
-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Colton Conor <colton.con=
or@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 18:15
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: New Switches with Broadcom StrataDNX
>Does anyone know when the switching and router vendors will release their
>new models with the Broadcom BCM88370 and BCM88670 chips? It looks like
>these chips could be used as a carrier grade router and/or metro E device.
>
>More information here: http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=3Ds90222=
3
>
>and here:
>http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/19/new-dune-chips-enable-heftier-switc=
hes/
