
Broadcom has announced sampling of its StrataXGS Trident 4 BCM56880 switch series, deliveringwhat it calls the industry’s highest Ethernet switching performance combined with compiler-programmable packet processing and telemetry. Offering bandwidths of 2.0 to 12.8 terabits per second (Tb/s), the Trident 4 brings cost and power savings and new levels of network availability and runtime flexibility throughout the enterprise network infrastructure, it said.