StrataXGS Tomahawk 3 Series Product Details

Key product attributes and benefits of the Tomahawk 3 Switch Series can be found at https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/switching/strataxgs/bcm56980-series  

Industry Quotes

Cloud Network Operators

Zhenyu Hou, Executive Director, System Department, Baidu:
"The rise of AI workloads and RDMA-enabled storage disaggregation is driving cloud server and storage interconnect to much higher speeds, and Tomahawk 3 now provides the industry with its first deployable solution for these applications with high-density 200/400GbE. Baidu is eager to take advantage of the significant performance gains and power/cost efficiencies that Broadcom's new generation of switches can provide."

Yuval Bachar, Principal Engineer, Global Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy, LinkedIn Corporation, a Microsoft Company:
"Now that Tomahawk 3 production availability is here, scale-out networks can multiply the capacity of each switching node to 128 ports of 100GbE, 64 ports of 200GbE, or 32 ports of 400GbE, feeding bandwidth-hungry cloud applications with the end-to-end performance they need. It also allows for disaggregated, efficient switching systems to be deployed in the data center core and aggregation layers. We demonstrated such a concept at the Open 19 Foundation 2018 Summit with a Tomahawk 3 based 100Tbps+ Virtual Switch Chassis based on standard white box building blocks. With a proven 12.8Tbps switch chip in Tomahawk 3, plus 8.0Tbps and 6.4Tbps capacity pin-compatible devices, and a healthy ecosystem of supporting technologies, the next step in data center networking is becoming reality."

Wade Shao, Director, Technology & Engineering Group, Tencent:
"We commend Broadcom for achieving the Tomahawk 3 production milestone, and for their continued generational leadership in cloud switching technology. Having a robust, ready-to-deploy 12.8Tbps switching element is a key building block for our next generation leaf-spine infrastructure. It flattens the network topology and delivers the performance per Watt needed to further scale out our distributed applications."

Hardware Solution Providers and ODMs

Steven Dorwart, Vice President, Connectivity & Cloud Solutions, Celestica Inc.:
"The combination of Broadcom's production-ready Tomahawk 3 switch silicon and Celestica's state-of the-art Silverstone DX400 switch hardware platform provides our customers, including data center operators, an immediate path to building out high-capacity 400GbE networks. These Tomahawk 3-based platforms offer groundbreaking performance, power and cost efficiency, ease of management, and most importantly, are highly customizable and immediately available to the market."

Jeff Chen, CEO, Delta Networks Inc.:
"We at DNI are thrilled to be releasing both the 128 port 100GbE AG90C8B platform and the 32 port 400GbE AGC032 platform, both based on the market-leading, production qualified 12.8Tbps Tomahawk 3 chip from Broadcom. By virtue of our collaboration, DNI and Broadcom are accelerating the availability of megascale-ready 50/100/200/400GbE systems based on advanced 50G-PAM4 SerDes technology, and ushering the next generation of disaggregated networking for cloud service providers worldwide."

George Tchaparian, CEO, Edgecore Networks:
"The production release of Tomahawk 3 is exciting news for the open networking industry and for us at Edgecore Networks. We contributed the design of the Edgecore AS9716-32D 32x400GbE switch, the industry’s first 400G open network switch, to the Open Compute Project back in March.  After months of comprehensive system testing and qualification with the Tomahawk 3 silicon, the switch is robust and ready for initial shipments. With Broadcom's superior integration and execution in packing 12.8 Terabits per second in a single chip, and Edgecore's engineering ability to deliver scale-out deployable switching systems to market, the pace of innovation in cloud-scale open networking has never been greater."

Mike Yang, Senior Vice-President of Quanta Computer Inc. and President of Quanta Cloud Technology:
"Congratulations to Broadcom for achieving production volume shipment on the Tomahawk 3 switch family, a significant milestone for our industry. QCT has long been working closely with Broadcom to bring cutting-edge networking technology to the market, and it is with great pleasure that we are able to now deliver to customers the Tomahawk 3 based IX9 switch platform featuring 12.8Tbps of line rate throughput in a 1U footprint with all 50G-PAM4 electrical signaling and QSFP-DD 400GbE interfaces. Let the next wave of high-capacity cloud networking begin!"

About Broadcom Inc.
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a leading designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.  Broadcom Limited’s extensive product portfolio serves four primary end markets:  wired infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage and industrial & other. Applications for our products in these end markets include: data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones and base stations, data center servers and storage, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and displays.  For more information, go to  www.broadcom.com.

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