Broadcom Corporation (News - Alert), a major player in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has recently released the StrataXGS Trident II Series, a new line of Ethernet switching solutions.

The new 10/40 GbE series, based on Broadcom’s award winning StrataXGS architecture, successfully meets the bandwidth, scalability and efficiency demands of cloud networking environments and mega data centers.

Featuring new SmartSwitch technologies designed to break through traditional silicon and system-imposed performance barriers in cloud-scale networking, the StrataXGS Trident II Series is the first to offer more than 100 10GbE ports, a 4X increase in network virtualization scale and a 2X (News - Alert) increase in forwarding and classification tables.

In addition to this, the series also delivers the most complete network switching feature set at the highest bandwidth and port density in the industry, enabling cost-effective and high performance data center build-out to an unprecedented number of server and storage endpoints, applications and users. 

This enables cost-effective and high performance data center build-out to an unprecedented number of server and storage endpoints, applications and users. 

In a press release, Ram Velaga, vice president and general manager, core switch at Broadcom, said, "Our StrataXGS switch solutions are renowned throughout the industry for driving unsurpassed performance levels and cost metrics in data center, service provider and enterprise network environments. Our latest StrataXGS Trident II Series – a follow-on to the highly successful Trident series of single chip switch solutions – delivers unprecedented innovation with new features optimized to meet the performance, scalability and efficiency demands of both the traditional enterprise and emerging mega data centers, enabling a new era in cloud-scale and software defined networking."

In related news, Broadcom Corporation has completed its acquisition of BroadLight, Inc., a premier provider of highly integrated networking and fiber access PON processors.

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