Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 4, Industry’s Highest Bandwidth Ethernet Switch Chip at 25.6 Terabits per Second - Seite 3

Industry Quotes:
Yiqun Cai, Vice President of Network, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
“Alibaba Cloud has worked closely with Broadcom on Tomahawk 4 products. With Broadcom’s Tomahawk 4, Alibaba Cloud is able to accelerate the adoption of 100/200/400GbE Ethernet solutions and provide faster and better solutions to our customers.”

Amin Vahdat, Fellow and Vice President, Systems Infrastructure, Google Cloud
“We are excited to collaborate with Broadcom to bring the Tomahawk switch series to market to support the scaling requirements of modern data center networks."

Yuval Bachar, Principal Hardware Architect, Azure Platforms, Microsoft
“With the exponential growth of network capacities and high-volume deployments of 100G and 400G the 25.6T Tomahawk 4 will be a major building block for that evolution. Broadcom has demonstrated with its sampling of Tomahawk 4, yet again, the leadership in delivering the cutting-edge technology for networking, with a focus on end-user requirements optimization, feature set optimization, and integration in a single chip as a base building block for the next wave of data center build-outs. The enhanced forwarding, load balancing, buffering, and congestion control capabilities will address essential needs for hyperscale workloads and will enable the next generation of platforms and networks to be built.”

Wen Temitim, Chief Technology Officer, StackPath
“The build-out of the intelligent edge is underway, and StackPath is thrilled to see the availability of Tomahawk 4. With the edge being premium, but limited real estate, Tomahawk 4's monolithic design is the best architecture for power, performance, and economics. The doubling of bandwidth is a significant advancement in the industry, and we are excited to take advantage of Broadcom's latest innovations.”

Wade Shao, Deputy Director, Network Architecture Center, Tencent
“Tencent applauds Broadcom for achieving yet another industry first with the release of the Tomahawk 4 25.6Tbps. Broadcom’s consistent engineering execution to their Ethernet switch roadmap has enabled Tencent to continuously upgrade our network infrastructure, while achieving economies of scale thanks to the broad ecosystem enabled by Broadcom's merchant silicon strategy."

Jason Black, Head of Global Network Infrastructure, Uber
“At Uber, we have been deploying leading-edge Ethernet speeds and feeds to guarantee the highest possible network performance for the best end-user experience. Broadcom's StrataXGS Tomahawk product line has been a key technology component in our worldwide data center design. With the arrival of Tomahawk 4 25.6Tbps, it ushers in the era of 400GbE leaf-spine CLOS deployment, and enables Uber to support ever-increasing workloads for autonomous vehicle, SaaS, and big data applications.”