Supporting high-density industry standard 400GbE, 200GbE, and 100GbE interfaces, Jericho2 offers 10 Terabits per second of Switch-Router performance. Coupled with groundbreaking innovations such as Elastic Pipe™ packet processing and large scale buffering with integrated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), Jericho2 is designed to meet the most challenging needs of carrier networks while offering disruptive economics.
In addition to Jericho2,
These new SoCs provide a complete solution for service provider, cloud data center, and large enterprise networks.
“The Jericho franchise is the industry’s most innovative and scalable silicon used today in various Switch-Routers by leading carriers,” said Ram Velaga,
“The router market was dominated for years by OEM-ASIC companies with merchant silicon falling short in functionality and flexibility required for this challenging market,” said
Carriers will upgrade their routed network infrastructure to address the major growth in bandwidth, driven by new services and the increased number of users, which coincides with the introduction of 5G mobile networks. Jericho2 opens service providers to a cost optimized, high-bandwidth, and low power choice for their router systems, thus revolutionizing the economics of building and maintaining edge, aggregation, and core networks.
Carrier networks require a high level of flexibility to address emerging use cases, standards, and protocols. Jericho2 introduces the innovative Elastic Pipe™ technology, an evolution of the StrataDNX field-proven programmable pipe architecture. The Elastic Pipe future-proofs Jericho2 Switch-Routers by enabling new services while avoiding costly hardware replacements. In addition, the innovative Modular Centralized Database capability of Jericho2’s Elastic Pipe enables flexible deployments across different networks and in multiple locations within the same network.
StrataDNX Family Key Features
- Jericho2 (BCM88690)
- Future-proofing via Elastic Pipe™
- Flexible binding of a centralized database to any stage of the pipe
- Extending Jericho2 pipe via reserved general purpose stages
- High bandwidth, low power, and in-package HBM packet memory offering up to 160X more traffic buffering compared with on-chip memory, eliminating packet drops
- Up to 10Tb/s switching capacity per device
- High-speed, high-density port interfaces up to 400GE leveraging best-in-class 50Gb/s PAM-4 SerDes
- Carrier grade Hierarchical Traffic Manager
- Large scale, hardware-accelerated instrumentation and telemetry
- Future-proofing via Elastic Pipe™
- FE9600 (BCM88790)
- Chassis switch fabric supporting 9.6 Tb/s per device
- Interconnect for up to 192 BCM88690 devices providing total system capacity of 900 Tb/s
- One generation of backward and forward compatibility
Availability
Broadcom is now shipping Jericho2 (BCM88690) and FE9600 (BCM88790) devices to qualified customers.
Industry Quotes
End Customers
“At AT&T we are fully committed to leading the industry towards a new networking paradigm, one that delivers faster networks, quicker innovation cycles and lower
Dr.
“China Mobile is leading the 5G revolution that will provide a new level of connectivity, speed, and user scale. Jericho2 availability will drive a new wave of high-bandwidth solutions with best-in-class flexibility that could serve as the cornerstone for future 5G carrier networks.”
Dr.
“Our Large-scale carrier-grade networks require the most scalable and flexible traffic engineering to address unexpected and bursty end-user traffic. The Jericho2 in-package deep buffer contributes to a smooth, drop-free operation with zero tuning. The advanced and flexible instrumentation and telemetry infrastructure introduced by Jericho2 will enable us to work with our suppliers to design visibility tools that will help us further improve our network efficiency.”
Mr.
“Jericho2 and FE9600 introduce innovative silicon architecture for modular systems. Perfect load-balancing within the chassis, virtual output queueing with deep-buffering and low-latency hardware based fault recovery are key attributes for a modular routing system deployed in the carrier network. Jericho2 pipe elasticity will enable simple, software-based upgrades to support future changes in the carrier network requirements without the need to perform a hardware upgrade.”
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OEMS
“We are looking forward to Broadcom's next generation Jericho2 merchant silicon enabling a very significant performance increase and a smooth transition from 100G to 400G Ethernet for our market-leading 7500R Universal Spine and 7280R Leaf platforms.”
“Huawei switching and routing solutions based on
Liu Zhongdong, president and CEO,
“Ruijie Networks has built and successfully deployed modular switching solutions using Jericho and FE3600. The availability of Jericho2 and FE9600 paves the way for a new generation of cost effective 100GE and 400GE high-scale modular solutions for the data-center that will further enhance networks visibility and improve application-performance through the use of their flexible, versatile, and large scale analytics."
"The introduction of the Elastic Pipe™ in the Jericho 2 switching architecture is noteworthy as it extends the lifespan and versatility of the merchant switch silicon solution.
Third Party NoS provider
Ido Susan, co-founder and CEO, DriveNets
“Jericho2 is going to change the game for DriveNets and for our customers. With high density 100GE and 400GE port connectivity, we will be able to build network clouds that satisfy even the most demanding service provider routing applications. Our current Network Cloud solution already transforms the economics and operational models of tier-1 global providers. With Jericho2 we will extend it to the entire service provider infrastructure, simplify its building blocks and unify it, end-to-end. Broadcom’s advances in merchant silicon switches allow us to deliver Webscale agility, scalability, and the right cost structure, with telco-grade performance.”
ODMS
CC Lee, president,
“Jericho2 is a 10 Terabit switching ASIC and significant step in the disaggregation revolution in the carrier routed-networks.
“With the availability of Jericho2, Delta Networks will be able to create carrier-grade routing solutions addressing the most challenging carrier-networks requirements. Jericho2’s high 400GE port-density, combined with carrier grade feature richness, provide an impressive building block for the next-generation of routers, based on merchant silicon in high scale for rapidly evolving service provider clouds."
“For many years, QCT has helped transform carrier networks to maximize technology integration and innovation in the large-scale deployment of servers, storage, and networking. QCT is a key driving force in creating cost-effective data center switching solutions using
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