Broadcom First to Ship 7th Generation Fibre Channel
December 06 2018 - 9:00AM
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the industry’s first
family of Gen 7 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) designed for
accelerating today’s mission-critical enterprise workloads and
emerging mission critical applications including artificial
intelligence-based business analytics.
Broadcom’s Emulex® LPe35000-series HBAs are the first products
released that comply with the FC-PI-7 standard*--the
fastest single-lane serial transmission speed that
features the hardened NVMe over Fibre Channel protocol
(NVMe/FC), automatic buffer credit recovery,
and more.
Purpose-built for All-flash and End-to-End NVMe Data
CentersBy optimizing both the hardware and software stack,
the LPe35000 delivers sub 10us roundtrip latency, 2x the bandwidth
of Gen 6, and >5 million IOPS, resulting in double the
application performance while using only half the CPU utilization
of current solutions. Oracle Database testing shows that
Emulex LPe35000-series HBAs deliver up to 55% better performance
than competitive products**, providing enterprises with:
- Increased business efficiency through faster response
times
- Lower application licensing costs and power consumption with
the ability to process more transactions per server
Breakthrough Operational EfficiencyEmulex
LPe35000-series HBAs, working in concert with Broadcom’s Brocade
directors and switches, will dramatically simplify how data center
administrators deploy and manage their enterprise storage network.
These new features solve two of today’s most perplexing
storage challenges: eliminating the need to reboot servers for
firmware updates, and recognizing and eliminating network
congestion bottlenecks to provide maximum server up-time.
Enhancements to the Most Reliable, Scalable, &
Secure Storage NetworkEmulex LPe35000-series HBAs include
three industry exclusive enhancements:
- Trunking: aggregates physical ports to
form a single, logical, extremely high-bandwidth 128GFC
port
- Dynamic Port Isolation: full error diagnosis
and resolution without impacting traffic on any other port on the
HBA
- Silicon Root of Trust: firmware authentication
is embedded into the hardware, delivering improved security against
malicious firmware attacks
Built for the Future As the first Fibre Channel
HBA with support for the PCIe 4.0 specification, the
LPe35000-series supports double the bandwidth per lane, providing
significant I/O performance benefits for storage networking and AI
applications. Performance upgrades are easy with hot-plug
64GFC optics kits. Lastly, Emulex HBAs support data center
modernization efforts with concurrent NVMe/FC and traditional FC
(SCSI FCP) support, allowing for a streamlined transition.
Available TodayThe Emulex LPe35000-series is
available today in single-port, dual-port, and quad-port models
with 32GFC optics that are upgradable to 64GFC. The Emulex XE601
Gen 7 Fibre Channel controller is available in 64GFC and 32GFC
configurations.
Dell EMC is the first server vendor to offer Gen 7 FC
connectivity via select Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
“Today’s announcement validates Broadcom’s continued investment
in Fibre Channel solutions required for the modern data center,”
said Jeff Hoogenboom, general manager, Emulex Connectivity
Division, Broadcom. “NVMe-based data centers will require
their storage network to deliver ultra-low latency that is
consistent and predictable as applications and data continue to
scale. Fibre Channel and Emulex’s Gen 7 HBA’s are
purpose-built for the NVMe data center.”
“Dell EMC and Broadcom have a long history of being
first-to-market with IT infrastructure technologies that modernize
data centers,” said Ravi Pendekanti, senior vice president, product
management and marketing, Dell EMC Server & Infrastructure
Solutions. “As first to offer these Gen 7 Fibre Channel HBAs, we
enable our customers to improve workload performance for
latency-sensitive applications and benefit from greater return on
their investment in PowerEdge servers.”
“The Fibre Channel market is experiencing renewed growth, with
HBA revenues currently on track for a solid annual increase.
Furthermore, 32G Fibre Channel customer adoption has been faster
than that of 16G,” said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan
Research. “Bolstered by the Emulex LPe35000-series Gen 7 HBAs,
speeds of 32G-and-higher are expected to comprise over half of
total Fibre Channel market revenues by 2020.” “We are pleased to
see this implementation of the latest generation of Fibre Channel
technology, frequently known as Gen 7,” said Dennis Martin, senior
analyst at Principled Technologies (which recently acquired
Demartek). “In a synthetic performance benchmark, we observed more
than 5 million IOPS across two ports of the LPe35002 Fibre Channel
adapter and using analyzers, approximately 1.5 microseconds of
latency across this adapter. Broadcom has raised the standard for
the next generation of Fibre Channel adapters.”
“Fibre Channel continues to thrive in the data center due to
continuous innovation and a robust roadmap,” said Jack Rondoni,
senior vice president and general manager, Brocade Storage
Networking division at Broadcom. “The launch of our company’s
Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel adapters represents important industry
and technology milestones. When combined with our recently launched
Brocade automation capabilities, Broadcom’s commitment to
delivering innovation in the Fibre Channel market is
unmatched.”
For more information about Broadcom’s Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel
solutions, visit the Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters page and the
Fibre Channel Storage I/O Controllers page.
* When upgraded with 64GFC optics** Emulex LPe35002 vs. QLogic
QLE2742
About Broadcom Inc. Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:
AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and
supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software
solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves
critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise
software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our
solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise
and mainframe software focused on automation, monitoring and
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