描述 Description

The StrataXGS? Trident 4 BCM56690 series is a family of Ethernet switches designed to address performance, capacity, and service requirements for next-generation data center and cloud computing environments as well as high-bandwidth enterprise and mobile network applications. The Trident 4 architecture delivers compiler-driven, user-programmable forwarding and instrumentation capabilities at a very high port density, while maintaining minimum power, latency and board footprint.Trident 4 has extensive features to address the rapidly increasing scale of data center network deployments and distributed computing applications. These features include flexible in-band and streaming telemetry, large scale forwarding databases with flexible allocations to allow tailoring to the required application, and support for the latest in datacenter protocols.To enable high network utilization, Trident 4 features a wide variety of load balancing and congestion management technologies including Dynamic Load Balancing, Dynamic Group Multipathing, Resilient Hashing, Latency-Based ECN marking, and Elephant Flow detection/re-prioritization.Trident 4 is programmed using the NPL high-level language. For more information on NPL, please visit

特性 Features

Key attributes and benefits of the new BCM56690 series include:
? Cost- and power-optimized for next-generation data center and campus networks, supporting 50G ToRs (48x50G + 8x200G, or 48x50G + 4x400G) with a compiler-programmable architecture
? An extremely rich, enterprise-grade feature set with a high degree of feature concurrency
? Architecture scalability for bandwidth requirements throughout the enterprise network: SKUs available up to 4.0Tbps, all supported with the same NOS and hardware code base
? Industry-leading fully shared packet buffer and database sizes
? Extensive, programmable in-band telemetry including support for IFA 2.0 (In-band Flow Analyzer version 2)
? A wide variety of load-balancing and congestion management features including Dynamic Load Balancing, Dynamic Group Multipathing, Resilient Hashing, Latency-Based ECN marking, and Elephant Flow detection and re-prioritization
? Broadview? Gen 4 integrated network instrumentation feature set and software suite, providing full visibility to network operators into packet flow behavior, traffic management state, and switch internal performance
? Four GHz-class processors on-chip enabling powerful out-of-band (streaming) telemetry and a variety of Broadcom-provided embedded applications
? Robust connectivity using up to 80 instances of the industry’s best performing, longest-reach 50G PAM-4 integrated SerDes core, enabling a wide variety of optical and direct attached copper (DAC) links
? Implemented in power-efficient 7nm process technology