Broadcom Delivers More Bandwidth, Lower Power to the Data Center With the Industry's First All DSP 40nm 10GbE SFP+ PHYs

SAN DIEGO, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OFC 2010 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the industry's first 40 nanometer (nm) quad-channel 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) devices that provide ultra low power consumption and savings of approximately 30 percent over competing 65nm CMOS solutions. The Broadcom® BCM84750 series enables the convergence of 10GbE and Fibre Channel equipment in the data center supporting unified networking and storage applications, as well as high density, high bandwidth server applications, scaled to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) designs in the future.  

Utilizing Broadcom's field proven digital signal processing (DSP) technology, the BCM84750 series of quad all-DSP 10GbE PHYs enables IT professionals to preserve their existing fiber infrastructures by providing a low cost upgrade path from 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) to 10GbE and beyond, up to 40GbE. This unique high-speed DSP technology, coupled with the 40nm design, provides significant performance, manufacturing and reliability advantages over competing analog solutions and will help drive the transition to 10GbE by leveraging the cost effective SFP+ standard.

Highlights/Key Facts:

• Today's networking equipment, such as high-end routers, network aggregation switches, blade servers and top-of-rack data center switches, require increased densities to address growing bandwidth and throughput needs of the enterprise. To enable these high port count systems, low cost module solutions, such as SFP+ with support for both fiber and direct attached copper interfaces, are shipping in volume today.
• Broadcom is uniquely positioned to address the needs of the high density SFP+ market with its new BCM84750 series quad-channel 10GbE SFI-to-XFI PHY solutions.  
  • These new transceivers exceed the requirements of the IEEE 802.3aq standard, which was developed to provide a low cost 10x speed upgrade for existing Gigabit Ethernet links in multi-mode fiber applications.
• The BCM84750 series of quad 10GbE SFI-to-XFI PHYs build upon seven generations of field proven 10GbE serial PHY technology and implements Broadcom's electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) equalizer technology.
  • EDC extends the transmission distance significantly by maintaining the integrity and quality of the signal and improves networking efficiency, enabling a seamless, cost effective upgrade to existing enterprise and metro service transport networks.  
• The BCM84750 series features support for 8/4/2G Fibre Channel, enabling unified data center switches that can support 10GbE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or native Fibre Channel on each port.
• The BCM84750 series furthers Broadcom's position as a leading provider of 10 Gigabit (10G) PHY products that support backplane, twisted-pair and optical front panel applications. This product portfolio includes support for all 10G PHY standards including 10GBASE-T, 10GBASE-KR, 10GBASE-LRM, 10GBASE-SR/LR and 10GBASE-ER/ZR.
• The BCM84750 series joins Broadcom's other complementary silicon solutions for the data center:
  • BCM56840 - 40nm 64-port 10GbE switch
  • BCM84834 - 40nm quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY
  • BCM57712 - 10GbE dual-port converged network interface controller (C-NIC)
• The BCM84750 series of quad-channel 10GbE SFI-to-XFI PHYs is now sampling to early access customers and includes the BCM84753 and BCM84754.

Supporting Quotes:

Lorenzo Longo, Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom's High-Speed Interconnect Products line of business

"Our new 40nm 10GbE PHY offerings leverage our existing DSP architecture to deliver superior performance and scalability for data center applications, and with ultra low power consumption, addresses the power and cooling issues that face today's data center operators. IT professionals can scale their capacity while preserving their existing fiber infrastructure by upgrading from 1GbE to 10GbE and beyond to 40GbE."

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All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and business, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change.  Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words.  Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to IT professionals' ability to scale their capacity while preserving existing fiber infrastructure, and references to support for 40GbE and 100GbE designs. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

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