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.p...@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-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Colton Conor < > colton.co...@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/ > >
