Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO), today announced immediate
availability of the first members of its breakthrough Trident 3
family of programmable switches for data center, enterprise, and
service provider networks transitioning to high density 10/25/100G
Ethernet. Manufactured in 16nm and building on the widely deployed
StrataXGS® Trident and Tomahawk® switch products, the new
StrataXGS Trident 3 switch series offers fully programmable,
line-rate switching solutions ranging from hundreds of Gbps to
multiple Tbps, complete with large reconfigurable on-chip
databases, best-in-class load balancing, and rich embedded
instrumentation for network visibility.
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Key benefits of the new StrataXGS Trident 3 switch
family include:
- Market-leading StrataXGS Trident switch architecture
revolutionized to support fully programmable packet processing,
while achieving significant cost and power efficiency advantages
over alternatives
- Programmable support for new protocol parsing, processing, and
editing for Service Function Chaining, Network Virtualization, and
Software-Defined Forwarding
- Programmable support for new switch instrumentation
capabilities such as in-band and out-of-band network telemetry
- Fully verified, feature-rich Trident 3 programming images and
flexible software APIs enabling complete functional compatibility
to StrataXGS Trident 2 and Trident 2+ based networks, maximizing
customer investment protection and providing fastest time to
network deployment
- 3.2Tbps and 2.0Tbps devices sampling now; part of complete
Trident 3 portfolio extending from several Tbps down to 200Gbps of
switching, leveraging a single, unified software development effort
and programming flow
- Industry’s broadest line of cost-and power-optimized
programmable switches, providing end-to-end network feature
consistency across enterprise, data center, and provider edge, as
well as in-network upgradeability for maximum asset life
"The innovation in our StrataXGS Trident 3 Series is in
delivering a fully programmable switching pipeline while
maintaining backwards compatibility to the existing install base of
StrataXGS Trident and Trident 2 based networks," said Ram
Velaga, senior vice president and general manager, Switch
Products at Broadcom. "Rather than a blank slate, our
customers want a scalable, bulletproof network data plane that is
reprogrammable to address future requirements, while continuing to
aggressively drive down Ethernet cost and power. With Trident 3,
we’ve uniquely delivered that solution. Our customers can leverage
a single development to yield a complete line of programmable
switching platforms, with the same rich feature set extending all
the way from the service provider edge, to the data center,
converged campus core, and wiring closet.”
The FleXGS™ architecture in Trident 3 comprises of new
programmable parsing, lookup, and editing engines with associated
reconfigurable databases. The engines are dimensioned and arrayed
to maximize parallelism, performance, functional capacity and
area/power efficiency to best address the diverse and concurrent
needs of today’s evolving networks.
The pipeline can be programmed to handle software-defined
network virtualization and service chaining protocols, including
VXLAN, GPE, NSH, Geneve, MPLS, MPLS over GRE, MPLS over UDP, GUE,
Identifier Locator Addressing (ILA) and PPPoE, among others. The
architecture also supports programmable telemetry, including the
insertion/processing of in-band telemetry headers (and associated
packet metadata such as traffic identifiers and timestamps) as well
as out-of-band network visibility (such as per-packet/per-flow
attribute histograms and new ERSPAN like protocols).
Programmability can be used in conjunction with Trident 3 native
traffic engineering functions such as configurable ECMP and
dynamic, state-based load balancing and multipathing.
"Broadcom's approach to programmable switching in the Trident 3
line distinctly enables the implementation of new and diverse
packet processing use cases with a pipeline that boasts optimal
silicon power and area, deterministic PPS performance, and
bandwidth scalability even greater than its more purpose-built
predecessor," said Bob Wheeler, principal analyst at The Linley
Group. "With multiple, optimized Trident 3 products ranging from
25/100GbE data center leaf-spine to multigigabit campus
distribution, network operators can deploy new software-defined
visibility, overlay, and forwarding capabilities uniformly across
their infrastructure in a highly responsive and efficient
manner.”
Broadcom’s FleXGS Programmability provides the ability to
introduce completely new switching and instrumentation features via
field-upgrade. Network OEMs, ISVs, and operators can hence take
advantage of Trident 3’s programmability, while leveraging the rich
and robust switching feature set developed and deployed over
multiple generations of configurable StrataXGS switch devices.
FleXGS Programmable Architecture Key
Features
- Fully Programmable Packet-Processing Pipelines: parsers,
editors and lookup/action engines
- Support for next-generation overlay protocols, including NSH,
VXLAN-GPE, VXLAN-IPv6, Geneve, MPLS-over-GRE/UDP, ILA, GUE, and
more
- Programmability enables new overlay processing and
instrumentation features delivered via in-network software
upgrade
- Large, parallelized, and shared match-action databases for
maximum table efficiency and per-packet lookup capacity
- Flexible programming models: script based programming flow for
power users, in addition to fully-verified, turnkey switch program
images for fastest time-to-market
- Unified software development model across devices with flexible
APIs, offering quick and seamless leverage of programmable
capabilities
StrataXGS Trident 3 Switch Series Key
Features
- High density 1/2.5/5/10/25/40/50/100GbE port connectivity using
best-in-class integrated 10/25Gbps NRZ SerDes
- Example single-chip platforms and line cards include spine and
converged campus core (32x100GbE), 25/100GbE Top-of Rack (48x25GbE
+ 8x100GbE) and 10/100GbE Top-of-Rack (48x10GbE + 6x100GbE)
- 32MB on-chip, 100% fully shared packet buffer delivers up to 8X
higher network burst absorption and congestion avoidance compared
to previous generations
- Large, programmable on-chip forwarding databases for L2
switching, L3 routing, label switching, and overlay forwarding
- 3X increased ACL scale to support evolving policy/security
requirements
- PCIe Gen3 x4 host CPU interface with on-chip accelerators
improves control-plane update and boot performance by up to 5X
- Programmable support for enhanced network telemetry, including
per-packet timestamping, Flow Tracker, microburst detection,
latency/drop monitor, Active-probe-based in-band network telemetry,
and in-band OAM processing; integrated with open-source BroadView
v2 telemetry agent and analytics software
- Dynamic, State-Based Flow Distribution provides systematic and
adaptive reduction in link congestion and traffic imbalances in
large-scale Layer3/ECMP leaf-spine networks
- Adaptive Routing for dynamic traffic engineering in non-Clos
topologies
- Full feature compatibility with previous generation Trident 2
and Trident 2+ devices
Availability
Broadcom is now sampling the first two members of the StrataXGS
Trident 3 family: BCM56870 (3.2 Tbps) and BCM56873 (2.0 Tbps).
Industry Quotes
Networking Original Equipment Manufacturers
(OEMs):
Jeff Hirschman, Vice President, Hardware Engineering,
Arista Networks:“Broadcom’s Trident family of silicon
powers the highly successful Arista 7050 Series platforms and we
are pleased with the new capabilities of Broadcom’s Trident 3
offering, enabling highly programmable switching and routing
achievements for networking."
Gavin Cato, Senior Vice President of Development
Engineering, Dell Networking:"This is a vibrant time for
network innovation. Dell EMC and Broadcom are at the forefront of
delivering on this promise with best-in-class open networking
solutions to expand the vision and reach of scale-out, converged
and highly automated infrastructure. The StrataXGS Trident 3 Series
is an important part of our customer-driven mission to simplify
operational complexity, and maximize programmatic control of
cloud-scale networks."
Eric Broockman, CTO and EVP of Engineering, Extreme
Networks:"As a long-standing technology partner of
Broadcom, Extreme Networks is committed to delivering the
industry's most comprehensive, feature-rich, turnkey networking
solutions serving the multi-faceted needs of modern IT enterprises.
We recognize the massive transformative potential of the StrataXGS
Trident 3 Series in unifying the feature consistency, network
visibility, and software-driven control of the end-to-end
enterprise network -- from campus access/distribution to converged
core to DCI. Trident 3-based platforms will form an important part
of Extreme's world class switching portfolio, enabling
unprecedented 100GbE economics in the enterprise and end-to-end
in-field upgrades of critical new switch functionality."
Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology
Officer, Fortinet Inc.:"Enterprise networks are
continually evolving to meet the increasing demands of today’s
digital economy. Effectively protecting all of this traffic
requires high-performance and highly reliable security solutions
like Fortinet's industry-leading enterprise and cloud firewalls
which leverage Broadcom's StrataXGS silicon. The Trident 3 Series
enables us to integrate 25GE and 100GE interconnects into our
enterprise firewall solutions to provide our customers with
superior power efficiency, flexible traffic management, and meet
traffic demands now and into the future.”
Liu Yili, Vice President and Head of Datacenter Research
Department, H3C Technologies:"H3C Technologies, building
on its leading-edge portfolio of enterprise and data center
networking solutions, is uniquely positioned to leverage the
breakthrough programmable switch architecture of Broadcom's Trident
3. Our rich experience with StrataXGS and StrataDNX merchant
silicon allows H3C to support the most reliable, flexible, and
production-ready solutions for end-user applications, and to be the
first to drive advanced network virtualization, monitoring, and
traffic engineering capabilities into large scale deployment. H3C
and its customers will greatly benefit from Broadcom's innovative
approach in Trident 3."
Yu Li, General Manager, Data Center Network Product
Line, Huawei Technologies:"Our multi-generational
collaboration with Broadcom, using StrataXGS and StrataDNX
switches, has helped Huawei establish its position as a global
networking equipment leader for enterprises and service providers.
And our continued success relies on silicon technology that enables
Huawei's product differentiation, quality, reliability, and
engineering excellence. The Trident 3 platform provides such
valuable technology by delivering expanded, backwards-compatible
switching behavior that can be reprogrammed to rapidly implement
new SDN and network visibility requirements, with the full
production readiness and solution robustness expected by our
customers."
Bethany Mayer, President and CEO, Ixia Solutions Group,
Keysight Technologies:"In this IT era of
software-defined-everything, network visibility must be
operationalized and adapted to new requirements at a lightning-fast
pace. Ixia's network packet brokering solutions depend on Broadcom
StrataXGS switching for ultra-high-bandwidth connectivity and
no-compromise packet processing performance. The Trident 3 series
architecture arms us with a versatile silicon platform for
customizing our 10/25/40/50/100GbE monitoring solutions, with
unprecedented deployment velocity."
Liu Zhongdong, President and CEO, Ruijie
Networks:"Broadcom and Ruijie Networks are helping to
drive the current network transformation happening in China - from
power-constrained, inflexible, limited-performance solutions to
nimble, high-performance, merchant-silicon based equipment. Setting
a new industry standard for data plane programmability, the
StrataXGS Trident 3 family will trigger a new wave of switching
solutions for the China market that will bring 25GbE and 100GbE
into the mainstream, extending the life of networking
infrastructure with ISSU-delivered functional upgrades and
unparalleled power efficiency. We have worked closely with Broadcom
to develop a rich portfolio of switches based on Trident, Tomahawk,
and Jericho products, and we are excited to embark together on this
ambitious journey armed with the ingenuity and versatility of the
Trident 3 generation."
David Chen, Vice General Manager, Ethernet Switching,
ZTE Corporation:"The introduction of fully programmable
packet processing in the Trident 3 switching architecture is
noteworthy as it extends the lifespan and feature capacity of the
industry's most recognized merchant switch silicon solution. ZTE's
growing portfolio of high-performance Ethernet solutions will
benefit from the extensive L2, L3, MPLS, and overlay processing
flexibility in Trident 3 and drive the adoption of
software-defined, economical, low-power 100GbE connectivity in the
data center market."
Network Operators and End Users:
Truman Boyes, Head of Networks, CTO Office, Bloomberg
LP"At Bloomberg, we feel that programmable
packet-processing pipelines allow for rapid time-to-market
solutions and support next-generation encapsulation technologies.
We believe that in-band network telemetry and the active monitoring
of latency, loss, and behavior are the keys to operating a high
performance network. Broadcom's focus on open telemetry
technologies, such as In-band OAM, will allow operators to build
and deploy more intelligent mission-critical networks."
Dr. Li Han, Director of Network Research Institute,
China Mobile Communications Corporation:"China Mobile
believes in the value of merchant switch silicon and emerging
software-defined technologies that enable the service provider
cloud to be more operationally agile. We applaud Broadcom for
investing in a programmable switch architecture for Trident 3 that
delivers leading-edge network telemetry capabilities and the
ability to implement new protocol processing paradigms. We believe
it will be an important product for advancing the next generation
of cloud and mobile services in China."
Dr. Shen Chengbin, Director of Infrastructure Networks,
Shanghai Research Institute, China Telecom:"Networking
silicon that can marry software-driven programmability with robust,
guaranteed functionality and efficient hardware implementation are
particularly attractive to telecom operators, so that we can deploy
a more flexible carrier network without compromising on economics,
reliability, or time-to-market. Broadcom Trident 3 switches fulfill
this promise and their programmable architecture provides insurance
that fast-evolving network requirements can be met without
continuously investing in long equipment upgrade cycles. From
central office NFV to mobile core to data center, telecom
infrastructure can benefit from the innovation and attention to
quality and efficiency that Broadcom has achieved in Trident
3.”
Wang Guangquan, Director of Network Research Institute,
China Unicom:"The migration of Asia operators to
higher-speed 25GbE, 50GbE, and 100GbE networks relies on
technologies that can reduce power consumption, capital expense and
operational burden. By enabling new capabilities such as Service
Function Chaining and in-band telemetry in an aggressive cost and
power envelope, the Broadcom Trident 3 switch family can deliver
tremendous efficiencies to China Unicom's network
infrastructure."
Wen Temitim, Chief Network Scientist,
Stackpath:"Stackpath's vision for delivering intelligent,
secure web-scale services is predicated on network infrastructure
developing a faster loop between real time visibility data and
programmatic control of its various resources. The Trident 3
switching series provides a powerful toolset for detailed,
per-packet monitoring of network performance and traffic anomalies,
future-proofed to address the evolving needs of a fully secured
cloud. We can count on Broadcom and its impressive ecosystem of
equipment/software providers to deliver fundamentally enabling
technologies for the next generation of secure cloud services.”
Wade Shao, Deputy Director, Network Architecture Center,
Tencent:"Tencent's network needs to provide high-quality
services to businesses and be programmable to accommodate massive
scale requirements and new applications. Broadcom's new Trident 3
platform allows for rolling out required network features quickly
and responding to network anomalies and failures with a global view
and real-time deep insights."
Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs):
CC Lee, President, Accton Technology
Corporation:"Accton has had the privilege of continuously
cooperating with Broadcom to introduce innovative networking
technologies to the industry. Not long ago, the StrataXGS
Trident-II ushered in the era of open, scale-out networks based on
merchant switch silicon, and we helped enable this transition -
through existing OEM partners as well as Edgecore Networks - at
massive scale in data centers and network service providers
worldwide. Now, with the Trident 3 generation, we see the
opportunity for mass-market adoption of 25/100GbE based leaf-spine
interconnect leveraging a fully programmable switch data plane. We
are excited to work with Broadcom to deliver more agile,
performant, and efficient switching solutions to the industry based
on Trident 3."
Jeff Chen, CEO, Delta Networks Inc.:"The
introduction of the StrataXGS Trident 3 programmable switch
architecture is an important milestone for DNI and for the overall
industry. As Broadcom's premier networking ODM provider, our focus
is to deliver on the numerous benefits of this family -- including
in-system upgradeability, excellent cost/performance and superior
power efficiency, unified, flexible switch features scaling from
Gigabit Ethernet all the way to high-density 100GbE. It is our
honor to participate in this revolutionary product development and
expect great mutual success through our cooperation."
Mike Yang, Senior Vice-President, Quanta Computer Inc.
and President, Quanta Cloud Technology:"By collaborating
with silicon solution leaders such as Broadcom, QCT has helped
transform cloud data centers to maximize technology integration and
innovation in the large-scale deployment of servers, storage, and
networking. We are focused on bringing to market a number of
platform solutions leveraging the superior Ethernet switching
capabilities of Broadcom's Trident 3 switch family. Our common
customers will be able to build on the robust feature set they have
deployed over generations of StrataXGS based QCT switches, with the
added protection of intercepting new network protocols and
telemetry functions using the programmable architecture of Trident
3."
Network Software Vendors:
Prashant Gandhi, Chief Product Officer, Big Switch
Networks:"As Big Switch advances our next-generation data
center networking solutions to cloud-native applications,
software-defined data centers and software-defined security &
monitoring, access to advanced switch ASIC functions become
paramount to delivering network innovations while operating in an
agile, efficient and scalable manner. Broadcom’s Trident 3 ASIC
will enable us to build high performance SDN fabric solutions for
enterprise, service providers, cloud and SAAS customers with many
new capabilities such as deep fabric analytics, efficient
leaf-spine flow distribution, service chaining for L4-7 services,
network function virtualization and cybersecurity features.”
JR Rivers, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer,
Cumulus Networks:"Broadcom fundamentally enabled the Open
Networking ecosystem and their continuous innovations in switching
silicon are advancing the state-of-the-art in terms of cost
efficiency, power, performance, and functionality. The FleXGS
architecture brings a broad set of programmability to the popular
Trident family, setting new expectations for field adaptable
switching equipment. Cumulus Networks is collaborating with
Broadcom to realize the industry's most capable and high-quality
open networking solutions based on Trident 3 and Cumulus
Linux."
Atsushi Ogata, President & CEO, IP
Infusion:"IP Infusion looks forward to adding support
for Broadcom’s Trident 3 switch series to the OcNOS
network operating system, which currently supports multiple
generations of StrataXGS silicon. OcNOS will leverage the FleXGS
programmable architecture to enable advanced networking features
for service provider and next generation data center applications,
and will also take advantage of Trident 3's programmability to
support rich features for SDN and NFV.”
Kumar Srikantan, President and CEO, Pluribus
Networks:"The architectural approach and tradeoffs made in
switch ASICs have a profound impact on the efficiency, agility,
resiliency and performance of software-defined cloud fabrics.
Pluribus Networks has brought to market disruptive and highly
scalable networking software solutions, including our Adaptive
Cloud Fabric built on the popular NetVisor OS, by designing to
Broadcom switch ASICs that deliver on all dimensions of importance
to network operators. With the new Trident 3 family, our SDN and
monitoring solutions can take advantage of a highly flexible switch
data plane, with excellent system power, cost, buffering,
visibility, and resiliency characteristics at multi-terabit
performance."
Jason Forrester, Founder and CEO, Snaproute:“We
are excited to be collaborating with Broadcom and to integrate
with a wide range of network devices built on Broadcom’s StrataXGS
Trident 3 family. The programmable, API-driven nature of our
FlexSwitch network operating system makes it uniquely suited to
delivering network data-plane and control-plane innovation enabled
by this new generation of switch chips.”
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