I was hoping this new Broadcom chip would be able to support enough routes to hold a full BGP table, and be used for something like cumulus linux. I have no need for 100G, but 10G and 40G on a platform with deeper buffers sounds nice. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com> wrote:
The BCM88670 (Jericho) is what powers the new Cisco NCS55XX devices. The processor is linerate above around 100 bytes per packet without external TCAM, supports 256K IPv4/64K IPv6 FIB entries (or mixed amounts). These chips are being used for high scale 100G, the initial NCS5508 linecard is a 36x100G QSFP28 one.
Juniper has chosen to use their own silicon for most of their dense 100G platforms, but you’ll see these chips used by pretty much everyone else I imagine at some point in the next year.
Phil
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Colton Conor < colton.conor@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=s902223
and here:
http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/19/new-dune-chips-enable-heftier-switche...