Edgecore

* Edgecore is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accton

* Producing increasing diversity of network equipment, the range of possible applications of Broadcom silicon. 

* Includes a optical solution 

* the choice to focus on SP is interesting, does this imply that 

* All of these products run IPinfusion software. 

Broadcom

* Talking about the breadth of their portfolio 

* There are market segments that have adopted merchant silicon namely the data centre while there are other market staying with black box. 

* the variety of ASICs is somewhat bewildering 

* eg. Trident 3 has five basic package offering

* jericho 2 has many options including the ability to interface to high speed memory to increase TCAM capacity

* Features in the ASIC have to be supported by the NOS

* NOS may emphasise some features over others and could create a diversity of solutions i.e. all NOSs are not equal

Why This Matters

* The open optical movement coming from the Telecom Infrastructure Project is targeted at two markets – telcos and DCI

* big market in data centre owners to have large amounts of bandwidth between data centres. 

* talking about up to 1.6Tbps in increments of 100G is possible.