Broadcom is supplying a custom three-chip serial backplane transceiver chipset for Foundry Networks' new terabit-capacity enterprise switch and metro/service provider router architecture. The custom serial backplane transceiver chipset was developed using Broadcom's third generation of low-power, mixed-signal CMOS SerDes technology. Broadcom said a key advantage of the technology is multi-rate operation, which allows cores to transmit serial data from 622-Mbps up through 5-Gbps and 10-Gbps over a variety of links including fiber optics, copper cables, backplanes, and chip- to-chip printed circuit board (PCB) connections.
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- Earlier this week, Foundry Networks introduced a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet Router with up to four Terabits of switching capacity and 1.5 billion packets per second of routing performance per rack. Read our story at: http://www.convergedigest.com/PacketSystems/packetsysarticle.asp?ID=7250
