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Why Ethernet Always Wins: Celebrating 40 Years

By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: May. 13, 2013

In 1973, the United States launched Skylab, its first space station, and Pink Floyd sang about the “Dark Side of the Moon.” The same year, a technology was born that would revolutionize computing for the next several generations. This month, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ethernet.

Ethernet, the family of networking standards that enables computers to locally connect to each other, is still the ultra-strong backbone to the many networks we use every day. Its use has extended beyond …

OMG! It’s RDJ! Star-Struck Broadcom MASTERS Hit Hollywood

By: Sarah Murry Posted: May. 10, 2013

The 12 finalists of Marvel’s Iron Man 3: Inventor and Innovator Fair — all of them past participants in the Broadcom MASTERS® science fair competition – recently got some face time with the star behind the “Iron Man” mask.

The finalists looked “amazed” and “shocked” when Robert Downey Jr., the actor who plays billionaire inventor and all-around superhero Tony Stark in the wildly successful “Iron Man” franchise, appeared onstage with them during a special awards ceremony.

“I am very pleased …

That’s a Wrap! Interop ’13 Brings SDN into Focus

By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: May. 09, 2013

This year at Interop, top IT professionals, bloggers and industry analysts converged in Las Vegas to see the future of networking on display.

As for Broadcom, the company announced products that are driving the next wave of networking innovation: Enabling enterprise and SMB-level companies to adopt the cloud and deploy other advanced networking technologies and bringing the power of big data to every business, regardless of size.

Broadcom also released an advanced enterprise access point system-on-a-chip, (read: mega router …

Keynote Recap: Exploring the Power and Potential of Next-Gen Networking at Interop

By: Sam Diaz Posted: May. 08, 2013

To get a sense of the excitement, anticipation and even — dare we say it, anxiety — around the fast-approaching Software Defined Networking trend, look no further than this week’s Interop conference in Las Vegas.

The SDN discussion is everywhere — in the workshops, on the panels, at the show floor booths and, earlier today, the main keynote stage.

Rajiv Ramaswami, executive vice president and general manager of Infrastructure & Networking Group at Broadcom, was joined on Wednesday …

On Deck at Interop 2013: Simplifying With SDN

By: Sam Diaz Posted: May. 07, 2013

Is Software Defined Networking, or SDN, ready for prime-time? It’s a question that was posed to a panel of industry experts at the Interop conference in Las Vegas today – and one that’s not easily answered.

But, Ram Velaga, Broadcom’s vice president and general manager of network switches in the Infrastructure & Networking Group and a panelist at today’s session, offered up a simple— and perhaps better—counterpoint to the complex question: Industry adoption of Software Defined Networking is a matter …

SDN: A Sea Change in the Data Center

By: Nicholas Ilyadis Posted: May. 07, 2013

Short for Software Defined Networking, SDN has become the latest enterprise tech acronym to buzz around the data center — and rightfully so.

Information technology professionals are excited about the potential benefits of turning the complex task of provisioning, optimizing and monitoring network traffic over to software.

It’s one of the main themes of this year’s Interop trade show, which kicked off this week in Las Vegas and is set to feature workshops and panels that will ask crowds of network …

Interop 2013: Broadcom Helps Enterprises Embrace Advanced Networking

By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: May. 07, 2013

The Interop show in Vegas is in full swing, and IT professionals of all stripes are seeing the latest in the networking equipment that keeps businesses running.

They are also looking to spend money: according to an Infonectics report, enterprises are expected to spend an average of $12.7 million on their network infrastructure this year, a 15 percent increase over last year.

Driving these trends is “Growth, growth, growth,” notes Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at …

Fortune 500: Broadcom Continues to Climb

By: Sarah Murry Posted: May. 06, 2013

The 2013 Fortune 500 list of U.S. companies was released this week, with Broadcom moving up 17 notches on the list to No. 327, up from No. 344 in 2012. It’s the fifth year that Broadcom has been on the list, steadily growing in ranking and revenue since its initial listing at No. 495 in 2009.

The list, which has been published since 1955, ranks U.S. companies by fiscal year revenue, but also looks at profits, headcount and other …

Interop Preview: Network Infrastructure in the Spotlight

By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: May. 06, 2013

As you’re reading this blog post, a myriad networking processes are happening quietly in the background: data in the form of bits and bytes appears on your screen, parsed and sorted on command by switches, likely sourced and stored in massive data centers where servers comprise this nebulous thing we call “the cloud.”

Considering that all of this occurs at blink-and-you-miss-it speeds and goes virtually unnoticed by the user, the technology is pretty impressive.

At Broadcom, we live and breathe …

“Iron Man 3” Contest Finalists Get Hands-On with the Technologies that Connect everything®

By: Sarah Murry Posted: May. 03, 2013

The dozen or so middle school students who spent a morning in the Demo Center at Broadcom’s headquarters this week were like kids in a high-tech candy store. The students, nominees of the Broadcom MASTERS® science fair competition and finalists of Marvel’s Iron Man 3: Inventor and Innovator Fair, spent the day exploring some of the most coveted tech gadgets that contain Broadcom chips, such as the Nintendo Wii U, the Raspberry Pi and much more.…