Broadcom Delivers Industry's Broadest Portfolio of Energy Efficient Ethernet Silicon Solutions

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that it has the industry's broadest portfolio of available silicon solutions supporting the newly ratified IEEE Std. 802.3az-2010 Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard. This extensive portfolio includes switch silicon that spans entry level unmanaged to enterprise and metro class switches; single, quad and octal Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) physical layer devices (PHYs); dual and quad 10GbE PHYs; 10/100 and 1GbE controllers, and 10GbE converged network interface controllers (C-NICs). Broadcom® EEE-compliant products offer energy savings of up to 70 percent or greater and provide customers with end-to-end silicon and software solutions that enable faster deployment of energy efficient networks.

Going Beyond the Standard

Broadcom goes beyond the EEE standard with its Energy Efficient Networking (EEN) initiative that enables enhanced energy savings beyond what is inherent in the EEE standard, and provides customers with a faster time-to-market for their EEE-compliant solutions.

As part of the EEN initiative, Broadcom has developed its proprietary AutoGrEEEn™ technology to facilitate the adoption of EEE and provide a faster migration path for legacy networking equipment. AutoGrEEEn technology implements the EEE standard directly into Broadcom PHYs and allows them to be in EEE mode when interfacing with non-EEE enabled MAC devices, without requiring changes to those devices. This innovation allows customers to make existing network equipment EEE-compliant by simply changing the PHY devices.  

Highlights/Key Facts:

• Networking equipment, like any other appliance, is subject to rising energy prices and related increases in operational expenditures (OpEx). Thus, energy efficiency is an area of paramount importance. Through its EEN initiative, Broadcom helps alleviate the OpEx burden for end-customers by enabling Broadcom customers to build networking appliances that are more energy efficient.
• Broadcom EEN provides customers with an end-to-end energy-efficient framework that provides additional power savings by:
  • Supporting the enhanced Layer 2 savings mechanism (optional for triple speed products and mandatory for 10 Gigabit speeds in IEEE Std. 802.3az-2010).
  • Implementing comprehensive control policies in Broadcom PHYs and controllers that allow for optimized, customizable and enhanced energy savings for a wide variety of applications.
• Broadcom's EEE-compliant switch portfolio includes GbE switches ranging from 5-ports to 48-ports and a 64-port 10GbE solution.
• Previously announced switch, PHY and controller products that supported the EEE draft standard are compliant with the final standard ratified on September 30th.
• A comprehensive list of Broadcom's EEE-compliant products is available at Broadcom Energy Efficient Networking.

Supporting Quotes:

Rajiv Ramaswami, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom Infrastructure & Networking Group

"Energy efficiency is of crucial importance to our customers and to the networking industry as a whole. Not only has Broadcom been deeply involved in the development and ratification of the EEE standard, we have also worked diligently to create products that exceed what is defined in the standard. Broadcom Energy Efficient Networking boosts energy savings, while our innovative AutoGrEEEn technology allows customers to bring energy efficient systems to market quickly and cost-effectively."  

Supporting Resources:

White Paper: Energy Efficient Networking

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom, one of the world's largest fabless communications semiconductor companies, with 2009 revenue of $4.49 billion, holds more than 4,300 U.S. and 1,800 foreign patents, and has more than 7,900 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.

A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at www.broadcom.com.

Cautions regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

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, the demand for Energy Efficient Ethernet-complaint switches, PHY and controller products; and references to Broadcom's AutoGrEEEn technology allowing customers to bring energy efficient systems to market quicker. 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.

Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with Energy Efficient Ethernet-complaint switches, PHY and controller products and AutoGrEEEn technology include, but are not limited to:

• General economic and political conditions and specific conditions in the markets we address, including the volatility in the technology sector and semiconductor industry,
• Delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets; 
• Our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets; and
• The timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non-qualification or non-certification.

Additional factors that may cause Broadcom's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the list that can be found at http://www.broadcom.com/press/additional_risk_factors/Q32010.php.

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