Broadcom has announced that qualified data centre and service provider customers have begun sampling its new Jericho2c+ router chip, described as the highest performing in the industry. The 7nm router chip provides 14.4 terabits per second of advanced routing capabilities in a modular chassis with a disaggregated distribution system. It’s also designed to enable a 36 Port 400GbE line-card with integrated security via only two chips, thus reducing footprint, complexity, power and costs compared to alternative solutions that require a far larger number of devices, said Broadcom.
Additional benefits include line rate MACSec and IPSec support over all network ports with a flexible encapsulation scheme to enable a variety of secure tunnelling options. It also comes with carrier grade Hierarchical Traffic Manager with HBM-based deep packet buffer, PP tables scale, counters and ACLs expansion via KBP as well as SONiC support for fixed and modular systems.
Broadcom added that the Jericho2c+ delivers a 3X routing performance increase over its predecessor less than two years after the latter's launch.
