In today's enterprise data centers, more than 60 percent of installed servers continue to run Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) network connections. The majority of these server ports are expected to transition to 10GbE over the next four years. Broadcom's Trident-II+ Series enables networking OEMs to deliver a full portfolio of enterprise-optimized, feature-rich, high-density 10GbE top-of-rack (ToR), blade and aggregation switches to serve this transition.

Built on Broadcom's industry-leading StrataXGS architecture, the 28 nanometer (nm) Trident-II+ Series provides a simple, drop-in power and efficiency improvement for the industry's leading switch silicon, with a comprehensive set of feature and performance upgrades.

"Over the past five years, multiple StrataXGS Trident generations have helped drive the adoption of 10GbE in cloud and mega scale data centers with standard, cost-efficient, merchant silicon based platforms," said Ram Velaga, Broadcom Senior Vice President & General Manager, Network Switch. "Our latest Trident-II+ series offers the economics, performance and virtualization capabilities required to lead a similar transition across enterprise data centers worldwide."

Designed for enterprise data centers of all sizes, the Trident-II+ Series delivers the industry's most comprehensive and field-proven feature set for network virtualization. This includes single-pass VXLAN routing that doubles gateway performance in all network topologies, as well as support for pre-standard GENEVE overlays.

Providing an ideal complement to Broadcom's latest StrataXGS Tomahawk and StrataDNX switch SoCs, the Trident II+ Series provides 100GbE connections to the spine layer and between racks, while supporting 10GbE connections to the servers in enterprise and private cloud deployments.

Power consumption and cooling is also a top priority in modern data centers. The Trident II+ Series reduces power dissipation of existing Trident-II designs throughout the network - by up to 30 percent for each typical ToR switch chipset. For an enterprise data center hosting 300 ToR switches, this can lead to annual power savings of well over 100 megawatt hours (MWh), resulting in greater IT energy efficiency and lower operating expenses.

Features:

－ Standards-compliant high-density 10GbE/40GbE/100GbE switch SoC

－ Single-pass routing in/out of tunnels (RIOT) at 1.28 Tbps

－ High-performance tunneling support for VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, SPB, and pre-standard Geneve

－ 128 low-power optimized 10Gbps serial interfaces with up to 8 ports of 100GbE

－ Broadview instrumentation featuring buffer statistics tracking (BST) and flex counters

－ Enhanced ContentAware engines with 4x larger ACL rule databases versus previous generation devices

－ OpenFlow 1.3.1+ support scaling to several 10,000's of flows using OF-DPA and third-party controllers

－ Configurable SmartTable technology to maximize L2 MAC,L3 Host, LPM forwarding database capacities

－ Full IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and multicast routing support

－ Integrated SmartBuffer for optimal burst absorption, dynamic thresholding and lossless service

－ SmartHash flexible engine featuring highly scalable ECMP load balancing and network resiliency

－ FlexPort technology enables dynamically configurable ports/MACs

－ Ethernet Port Multiplier technology supports fine-grained channelization over Ethernet and enterprise fabrics