Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today an industry first with
Trident SmartToR (Smart Top-of-Rack), expanding the reach of
merchant silicon to software-defined, fully-programmable switching,
routing, and L4-L7 services at unprecedented scale. The Trident
SmartToR architecture empowers a new generation of smart networking
products with orders of magnitude better performance than solutions
currently available in the market.
Over the last decade, merchant silicon has evolved from basic L2
switching to the world’s highest-performance switching and routing
solutions. Trident SmartToR takes this to the next level with
support for high-performance, advanced network services.
“Truly revolutionary, Trident SmartToR delivers unmatched
performance and scale, along with merchant-silicon economics, to
disrupt the L4-L7 network services market, which until now has
relied on low-performing and expensive processors and FPGAs— this
new offering is a true game changer,” said Ram Velaga, senior vice
president and general manager, Core Switching Group, Broadcom.
Trident SmartToR enables a 100x performance increase with
massive capacity: tracking 3 million connections with 3 million
connection-level policies, as well as 1 million tunnels and over 1
million stateful counters for metering and telemetry.
Trident SmartToR uses a software-defined pipeline that covers
switching, routing, and advanced L4-L7 network services. In
addition, this pipeline enables user-defined instrumentation and
analytics at the packet and connection level with nanosecond
resolution. Trident SmartToR can also perform essential analytics
filtering functions such as deduplication, categorization, and
summarization to provide specific and actionable insights.
A leading-edge solution, Trident SmartToR also has integrated
line-rate MACSec/ IPSec for pervasive security, powered by a
programmable encryption engine, which maintains operational
flexibility while securing network traffic.
The unparalleled breadth of Trident SmartToR’s capabilities
expands its reach far beyond that of a standard top-of-rack switch,
enabling merchant silicon to cover applications such as:
- Stateful L4 load balancer
- NAT/NAPT appliance with zero latency addition for new
addresses
- VxLAN gateway
- High-performance DDoS attack mitigation
- High-scale, line-rate packet
broker
Trident SmartToR is now shipping. Please contact Broadcom for
further details. To learn more about the Broadcom Trident SmartToR
click here. For more information on all Broadcom solutions please
visit www.broadcom.com.
Industry Quotes
Yiqun Cai, VP of Networking, Alibaba Intelligent
Cloud:“Alibaba has had a long and successful history of
collaboration with Broadcom. The new Trident SmartToR family comes
with enhanced programmability, state-aware processing, and
extensive table and tunnel expansion. These new SmartToR features
will enable Alibaba to deliver a new generation of high-performance
and high throughput data center network
infrastructure.”
John McCool, Chief Platform Officer, Senior Vice
President of Engineering and Operations, Arista
Networks:“The Arista 7050X and 7300X Series running EOS®
provide a best-of-breed switching for enterprise data center
environments, powered by multiple generations of the Broadcom
Trident architecture. We are enthusiastic about the new Trident
SmartToR for an expanded set of networking roles and features such
as flow state and visibility across client to cloud enterprise. Our
customers continue to value the benefits of innovative merchant
based silicon, versus the complexity of legacy solutions.”
Devesh Garg, CEO, Arrcus Inc.: “We are excited
to leverage the massive scale and compiler-programmable
instrumentation of the new Trident SmartToR to open up new use
cases. ArcOS, our network operating system solution, with
unparalleled performance and low latency along with its support of
advanced protocols such as SRv6, enables the new Trident SmartToR
capabilities to meet customer requirements— from the data center to
the 5G Edge to the multi-cloud.”
Andy Athreya, EVP and Chief Development Officer, Juniper
Networks: “Juniper Networks utilizes Trident architecture
to provide higher-density and higher-performance systems for data
center and campus networks. We look forward to the introduction of
the Trident SmartToR family to expand the reach of our
industry-leading Junos OS to deliver flexible, yet
simple-to-operate solutions at scale for our cloud, service
provider and enterprise customers.”David Maltz, Technical
Fellow, Microsoft:“This new Trident device is an
innovative addition to Broadcom’s switching portfolio supporting
SONiC. We commend Broadcom for taking advantage of the advanced 7nm
process node to deliver policy flexibility and complex packet
transformations at scale expressed via extensions to SAI. This
addresses high performance use cases like Appliances, Edge and 5G
applications.”
Liu Zhongdong, President and CEO, Ruijie
Networks:“Ruijie is a recognized and trusted partner,
delivering advanced networking solutions to the Cloud customers.
The newly introduced Trident SmartToR switch silicon enables a new
generation of versatile, power-optimized, and extremely high
performance Cloud networking devices. Trident SmartToR enables both
Ruijie and Broadcom to continue our leadership position in the
Cloud market.”
Andrew Qu, Chief Network Architect, Tencent:
“Trident SmartToR provides Tencent a tremendous opportunity to
consolidate our data center ToR, load balancer, NAT, firewall, and
gateway appliances into a single, unified platform. This unified
system design greatly reduces our R&D investment, while
significantly improving our time-to-market for introduction of new
technologies. Furthermore, Broadcom has solidified their 7nm
leadership with a broadened portfolio to complement the existing
Tomahawk4 and Trident4 products.”
About BroadcomBroadcom 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, mainframe and cyber
security software focused on automation, monitoring and security,
smartphone components, telecoms and factory
automation. For more information, go
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