5G WiFi: Introducing a Wi-Fi Powerful Enough to Handle Next-Gen Devices and Demands

By: Vijay Nagarajan Posted: May. 14, 2012

How many of us remember a time before electricity? Or the telephone? Or cable TV?

How about Wi-Fi? Like many other technology breakthroughs, Wi-Fi is well on its way to becoming as mainstream as the electrical outlet. And just like the outlet changed through the years to become safer and more energy efficient, Wi-Fi is turning a corner into a next-generation version that’s faster, more reliable and better equipped to handle not only today’s demands but the wave of future …

Broadcom at Interop: Knowledge-Base and Multi-Core Processors Complete Broadcom Portfolio

By: Tamara Snowden Posted: May. 09, 2012

This week at Interop 2012, we’re thrilled to display products from our newly formed Processor & Wireless Infrastructure line of business, a result of our recent acquisition of NetLogic Microsystems.

The addition of leading knowledge-base and multi-core embedded processor technology to our growing Infrastructure & Networking portfolio extends Broadcom’s addressable market and provides our customer base with a complete end-to-end solution.

Combining bandwidth, connectivity and intelligence into one seamlessly integrated platform solution results in reduced integration costs, enhanced …

Broadcom at Interop: Unprecedented Innovation for Next Gen Data Center, Green IT and Enterprise 2.0

By: Tamara Snowden Posted: May. 08, 2012

We’re excited to be in Las Vegas this week for the Interop show, where we’ll be showcasing the full line-up of our latest innovations enabling the next generation Data Center, Green IT and Enterprise 2.0. Visitors to our booth on the main show floor will get an up close and personal demonstration of our amazing technologies in action.

Terabit Anyone? In the Data Center area of our booth you will find our new 100GbE BCM88650 switch and BCM87550 fabric…

Broadcom at Interop: Next-Generation Data Centers Shift into High Gear

By: Isa Loundon Posted: May. 04, 2012

Ten years ago, data centers didn’t know how good they had it: businesses hummed along sending (relatively) small presentations and documents over the network with perhaps an occasional graphic or photo, as well. Today, data centers grapple with a massive amount of complex, real-time information including videos, multimedia decks and streaming web. In order to keep up, enterprise technology is moving forward at a rapid rate as it responds to many of the same trends that consumer face, such as …

Enterprise 2.0: Broadcom puts Network Managers in the Fast Lane

By: Tamara Snowden Posted: May. 02, 2012

As employees around the world replace their desktops and laptops with mobile devices, network managers are seeking new ways to provision, secure and control enterprise computing resources and information access to keep employees connected – regardless of their location.

This week, we unveiled our latest innovation designed for the modern workforce (aka Enterprise 2.0). The BCM56545 brings the innovation Broadcom is known for in the data center and service provider networks to the wiring closet, enabling gigabit connectivity in …

Technology Moving at the Speed of Life: Broadcom Enables Massive Network Scalability

By: Tamara Snowden Posted: May. 02, 2012

As the popularity of social networking, streaming video and high bandwidth business services continues to climb, demand for higher-speed networks is growing at an astounding pace.

As consumers and business professionals, however, we aren’t always aware of the technology needed to ensure data moves along with the speed of our lives. Large data centers with literally thousands of servers require 100 Gbps network connectivity from the core to the edge while large service provider networks require high density core switching …

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World’s Fastest Converged Network Adapters – Again!

By: Isa Loundon Posted: May. 01, 2012

Guest blog by Dennis Martin, President of Demartek

A number of new infrastructure technologies are influencing the way next-generation datacenters are operating and performing. Consider how storage networks are being impacted by a number of technologies, such as server virtualization, cloud-based computing, media-rich applications and even the higher-performance storage offerings, such as solid-state drives.

Now, more than ever, performance matters.

I just spent a few days in the labs at Broadcom running independent tests of the company’s latest generation 10 …

Appetite for Bandwidth: Broadcom Chip Doubles Network Processing Power

By: Isa Loundon Posted: Apr. 26, 2012

Earlier this week, Broadcom came together with other top tech leaders and more than 50 international technology reporters and industry analysts for the annual Globalpress 2012 Electronics Summit in Santa Cruz, California.

At the event, the company launched the industry’s first 100 Gbps full duplex network processor unit (NPU): a powerful chip that delivers more than twice the throughput of any NPU on the market. This new chip – with unparalleled integration – addresses the overwhelming appetite for bandwidth that …

Broadcom’s Sophie Wilson Honored as Computer History Museum Fellow

By: JP Clark Posted: Apr. 22, 2012

Sophie Wilson, a technologist whose innovative contributions paved the way for today’s mobile phones, tablet computers, digital televisions and video game devices, is being honored this week at the 25th anniversary Computer History Museum Fellow Awards in Silicon Valley.

Wilson, Broadcom’s Director of Integrated Circuit Design, and fellow honoree Steve Furber, professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, are being recognized for their work on the BBC Micro and design of the ARM processor architecture. …

Why Being Fast, Fat and Flat Can Be a Good Thing!

By: Greg Scherer Posted: Apr. 09, 2012

There’s a lot discussion these days among network IT professionals about making the leap from 1 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) to 10GbE. In fact, I recently participated in a Wikibon Peer Incite discussion about this very topic. In a conversation titled “The Rise of 10Gb Ethernet and the Impact of Intel’s Xeon E5 Family of Processors,” we not only talked about the speed advantages of 10GbE but also some of the solutions (such as HP’s Flex-LOM architecture) that make it easier …

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