Re: New Switches with Broadcom StrataDNX

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

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-switches/