BiB 49 – IPinfusion – Its Takes Team to Make a Whitebox – Network Field Day 18

 
Edgecore

* Edgecore is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accton
* Producing increasing diversity of network equipment, the range of possible applications of Broadcom silicon. 
* Includes a optical solution 
* the choice to focus on SP is interesting, does this imply that 
* All of these products run IPinfusion software. 

Broadcom

* Talking about the breadth of their portfolio 
* There are market segments that have adopted merchant silicon namely the data centre while there are other market staying with black box. 
* the variety of ASICs is somewhat bewildering 
* eg. Trident 3 has five basic package offering
* jericho 2 has many options including the ability to interface to high speed memory to increase TCAM capacity
* Features in the ASIC have to be supported by the NOS
* NOS may emphasise some features over others and could create a diversity of solutions i.e. all NOSs are not equal

Why This Matters

* The open optical movement coming from the Telecom Infrastructure Project is targeted at two markets – telcos and DCI
* big market in data centre owners to have large amounts of bandwidth between data centres. 
* talking about up to 1.6Tbps in increments of 100G is possible.