Products Incorporate Advanced Carrier-Class Features Enabling Revenue Generating Services

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new line of low-power, high performance Ethernet switches for service provider networks. Broadcom's newest carrier-class switch offerings allow mobile and broadband service providers to deploy a new generation of high performance network infrastructure equipment with substantially lower capital and operational expenditures. As a leading semiconductor vendor, Broadcom now has a wide variety of standard silicon solutions that support the complex protocols and bandwidth requirements for service providers as they look to simultaneously deliver both mobile and broadband services across a single IP backbone.

Highlights/Key Facts:

    --  The global explosion of mobile devices, bandwidth-hungry applications
        and consumer demand for 24/7 connectivity to IP-based video, social
        networking and location-based services are overwhelming today's mobile
        networks. Service providers are now challenged to provide 'on demand'
        connectivity and a better user experience on 3G and future 4G networks
        or risk the loss of high revenue generating subscribers. To meet these
        performance needs, networking OEMs must quickly bring to market low
        cost, data-oriented mobile backhaul equipment.
    --  Traditionally, slow time division multiplex (TDM)-based mobile backhaul
        equipment was built using costly custom application-specific ICs
        (ASICs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and/or disparate
        components from niche suppliers. This design model, however, results in
        sub-standard equipment that is expensive, has a lengthy time-to-market
        and is not suitable for data and video. Ethernet application specific
        standard products (ASSPs) provide optimized bandwidth at the lowest cost
        for this application.
    --  The latest Broadcom(R) Ethernet switch products are optimized to reduce
        capital and operational expenditures. These solutions now enable service
        providers to manage broadband and mobile connectivity simultaneously on
        a single network with complete product interoperability.
    --  Broadcom service provider switch products deliver on three key design
        principles:

        --  Consistency: Advanced protocols not only deliver efficient
            end-to-end provisioning of revenue generating services, but also
            facilitate easier network manageability. Broadcom's service provider
            switch portfolio offers a common set of features and protocols for
            every step in the network, minimizing operational expenditures and
            reducing cost of ownership.
        --  Scalability: Scaling demands vary dramatically across the service
            provider network. Broadcom offers a wide variety of service provider
            switch products that are optimized to scale to the appropriate level
            at each point in the network. Providers require this range of
            scalability not only to achieve high performance in the core, but
            also to address the cost concerns associated with edge equipment
            which must support a high number of cellular sites.
        --  Quality: Providers must demonstrate that their networks adhere to
            contractual service level agreements. Broadcom designs and tests its
            switch silicon to meet the field performance demands of the service
            provider market. In addition to rigorous test and manufacturing
            methodologies, Broadcom devices incorporate extensive resiliency
            mechanisms, performance monitoring capabilities and traffic
            management services.
    --  Broadcom's service provider switch portfolio incorporates products from
        Broadcom's StrataXGS(R), XGS(TM) Core and RoboSwitch(TM) Ethernet switch
        product lines. In total, Broadcom now features more than 30 switch
        products built specifically to meet the requirements of next generation
        service provider networks (this includes previously announced products).
        The five (5) new switch series being introduced today include the
        following:

        --  BCM56630 - Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)/10GE switches for carrier Ethernet
            aggregation switches and routers
        --  BCM56685 - 2.5G switches for embedded access systems
        --  BCM56330 - GbE edge switches for mobile backhaul applications
        --  BCM56130 - Fast Ethernet (FE) edge switches for business-class
            access
        --  BCM53280 - FE edge switches for consumer multi-tenant units (MTUs)
    --  Carrier-class switch products are commonly used in conjunction with
        Broadcom's digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable broadband products,
        physical layer (PHY) transceivers and serializer/deserializer (SerDes)
        solutions to deliver a variety of commercial silicon products for
        service providers.

Supporting Quotes:

Gabriele Corliano, Chief Researcher--Network Research & Technology Strategy, British Telecom:

"BT recognizes the potential for Ethernet to cost-effectively deliver the high bandwidth network required of modern access technologies. We are very encouraged by Broadcom's development of Ethernet switches that support the necessary protocols and technologies that will allow us to roll out new and diverse value-add services."

Martin Lund, Vice President & General Manager for Broadcom's Network Switching Business Unit:

"Broadcom is applying 'Ethernet economics' to a market that has historically been served by costly legacy solutions that do not meet the bandwidth demands of next generation 3G and 4G mobile networks. Our new service provider switch portfolio solves a real-world problem, providing the unification of mobile and broadband networks."

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything(R).

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