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Broadcom Transforms Communication With First 100 Gbps Full Duplex Semiconductor Processors

Broadcom's fully programmable NPUs incorporate 64 custom processors running at 1GHz . They are claimed to deliver more than double the throughput of any other NPU on the market
Broadcom Corporation says it has developed the industry's first series of 100 Gbps full duplex network processor units (NPUs). 

The BCM88030 NPU family will enable the next wave of 100GbE optimised switches and routers for service provider networks. It's high level of integration should help to eliminate the need for external components, dramatically reducing system cost and power by up to 80 percent per 10GbE port. 

According to "Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2011-2016", in 2012, the number of connected devices is set to exceed the world's population with an estimated 7 billion devices connected to the network. And by 2015, Cisco says 90 percent of content viewed on mobile devices will be streaming video and application and downloads are expected to reach 47 billion per year. The report also says that global IP traffic is expected to grow 18-fold by 2016.

To satisfy this overwhelming appetite for bandwidth, service providers the world over are racing to transform their networks by adopting higher bandwidth links. Analysts who compiled "Infonetics Service Provider Router & Switch Forecast, 4Q11", estimate a compound annual growth rate of more than 170 percent from 2011 to 2016 for 100G Ethernet ports as service providers try to fulfil this demand. Infonetics also predicts that the carrier Ethernet equipment market will reach $40.2 billion by 2015.

Dan Harding, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Network Processors, Broadcom Corporation, comments, "We have experienced very strong demand for our programmable XGS Core line of network processors the last several years as service providers transform their legacy networks to higher bandwidth Ethernet-based solutions. Today's introduction is the culmination of some very talented engineers, who have developed a line of products touting a number of industry first innovations and the industry's highest level of integration. Being first to market with the world's first full duplex 100 Gbps network processor, we hope to reshape the carrier Ethernet market and drive the next wave of 100GbE optimised switches and routers."

The user programmable BCM88030 series is built on the XGS Core packet processing architecture. It's powerful array of high-speed processors enable extensive multi-threading and hardware acceleration for functions such as packet parsing, classification and look-ups.

The BCM88030 NPU family includes a proprietary algorithmic look up engine using low cost DDR-3 DRAM that enables massive scale for Layer 2, IPv4 and IPv6 tables. Algorithmic on-chip access control list (ACL) capability is available along with seamless expansion using Broadcom's industry-leading NL566xx knowledge based processor (KBP).

The latest products span the entire network, from the access point to the edge, to the aggregation and finally the core. Broadcom says its high bandwidth solutions deliver the ultimate mobile experience, with high quality voice connections, faster application downloads, and uninterrupted video streaming.

Toshio Suzuki, General Manager, IP Network Division, NEC Corporation, endorses the new Broadcom series by saying, "Our service provider customers are demanding high density 100GbE platforms over the next year. Only Broadcom's BCM88030 100GbE NPU provides us with the performance and density to meet these stringent requirements in a fully-programmable solution.  Broadcom's BCM88030 100GbE NPU is unmatched in its ability to provide us with the flexibility to meet the constantly changing demands of our customers as well as the performance to drive line rate 100GbE full-duplex performance in a single device."

The BCM88030 family consists of three devices, including the 100 Gbps BCM88038 NPU, the 50 Gbps BCM88034 NPU and the BCM88032 24 Gbps NPU. All devices are now sampling with production volume expected to start in the second half of 2012. 
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