Arpit Joshipura, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Dell Networking
"Dell Networking has a history of several 'firsts' with Broadcom as a leading partner on Open Networking. Broadcom's StrataXGS Tomahawk Series helps us to continue expanding the vision of scale out and converged architectures to higher density 25/40/50/100GE as customers deploy simpler and flatter data center networks. Together we're designing true Open Networking platforms to help deliver the operational flexibility and best-of-breed technology choices that are paramount to modern cloud networking."
Dominic Wilde, Vice President, Global Product Management, HP Networking
"Our customers are looking to SDN technology to speed innovation and drastically improve data center performance. As long-standing partners, HP and Broadcom are collaborating on data center converged infrastructure solutions, and with the introduction of the StrataXGS Tomahawk Series—which marks a networking inflection point towards all-25Gbps based interconnect--we are delivering enhanced networking connectivity with greater performance, improved efficiency and lower economics."
Yu Li, General Manager, Data Center Network Product Line, Huawei Technologies
"Huawei and Broadcom have enjoyed a long-standing partnership in bringing innovative carrier, enterprise and data center networking platforms to market based on StrataXGS and StrataDNX technologies. Switching solutions such as the new StrataXGS Tomahawk Series can help handle the exploding diversity and scale of cloud applications and enable an era of 100GE software-defined networking."
Jonathan Davidson, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Security, Switching and Solutions Business Unit (S3BU), Juniper Networks
"The success of Juniper Networks' QFX 5100 Series switches in cloud and carrier data centers worldwide attests to our engineering excellence in driving time-to-market and extracting feature richness from configurable merchant silicon. Broadcom's latest StrataXGS Series for cloud-scale networking delivers market-leading performance and provides Juniper a platform to drive innovations in network visibility, analytics and virtualization. This is key to our strategy of helping to co-create High-IQ Networks to deliver greater agility, automation, efficiency and security to our cloud building customers."
Network Operating System Partners:
Prashant Gandhi, Vice President of Product Management & Strategy, Big Switch Networks
"Big Switch Networks is pleased to collaborate with Broadcom on its latest StrataXGS Tomahawk Series of high-density 25GE and 100GE switches. Our bare metal SDN solutions — Big Cloud Fabric and Big Tap Monitoring Fabric — demand the scale, performance and telemetry that Tomahawk provides. These solutions dramatically reduce CAPEX & OPEX due to bare metal economics and SDN-driven zero-touch fabric operations compared to proprietary box-by-box networking solutions."
JR Rivers, CEO, Cumulus Networks
"The pace of innovation from Broadcom - illustrated now with the StrataXGS Tomahawk Series - continues to make custom silicon unnecessary for networking. The availability of Broadcom's leading-edge silicon to a large ecosystem of industry standard hardware and software partners brings a high degree of scalability and cost effectiveness to open networks. We are excited to be involved with Broadcom in pushing forward the next generation of platforms and network architectures based on their StrataXGS Tomahawk Series."
James Liao, CEO, Pica8
"Pica8's extensive collaboration with Broadcom has produced the industry's most capable OpenFlow switching operating system based on StrataXGS silicon and has furthered the adoption of the disaggregated-network model. We look forward to working with Broadcom on the new StrataXGS Tomahawk generation of switch silicon and creating value-added network software solutions that capitalize on its unprecedented bandwidth, flow processing scale, and instrumentation abilities."
Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs):
George Tchaparian, Senior Vice President of Research & Development, Accton Technology Corporation
"Accton has partnered with Broadcom to develop a rich portfolio of open networking platforms having robust performance, software portability, differentiated design quality and cost efficiency to meet the needs of cloud data centers. We are excited by the release of the StrataXGS Tomahawk Series as Accton will introduce multiple open networking platforms based on this disruptive switch silicon family. Together, we look forward to enabling a new wave of switch deployments at 25GE, 40GE and 100GE that will transform the economics of cloud scale networks."
Harrison Chang, President, Alpha Networks, Inc.
"For more than a decade, Alpha Networks has closely partnered with Broadcom to deliver to our joint customers a world-class Ethernet switch portfolio that has proven its excellence in silicon engineering, system engineering and meeting the needs of customers. We are excited to bring to market a new class of switching solutions based on the StrataXGS Tomahawk Series with performance levels never before seen in our industry."
Jeff Chen, President, Delta Networks, Inc.
"DNI has always been Broadcom's premier partner in providing customers with excellent quality, superior features, good power efficiency and competitive cost solutions. Broadcom's StrataXGS Tomahawk Series will make data center switches capable of delivering up to 32 ports of 100GbE and 64 ports of 40GbE. It is our honor to participate in this revolutionary product development. We expect great mutual success through our cooperation."
Jack Tsai, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Business Group, Inventec Corporation
"Inventec's partnership with Broadcom on the new StrataXGS Tomahawk Series gives us the opportunity to develop innovative next-generation data center switches to meet growing customer demands. We are committed to leveraging our world-class engineering and manufacturing capabilities to introduce a Tomahawk-based, 1RU, 32 x 100G spine switch into our emerging product portfolio."
Mike Yang, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT)
"QCT's first bare-metal 10GE switching platform deployed in cloud datacenters was the result of our close collaboration with Broadcom. The collaboration resulted in best-in-class networking performance and quality and we're now working together on the new StrataXGS Tomahawk Series, which sets an industry standard for dense 25G and 100G Ethernet connectivity and network instrumentation capabilities. Together, we're building out the next generation of software-defined data centers with open, scalable, ultra-high-performance switching solutions."
Emily Hong, President, Wiwynn Corporation
"Wiwynn's focus on datacenter architecture innovation, technology integration, and market velocity make us an ideal solutions partner for bringing integrated systems to customers. We are utilizing the sheer switching capability and superb networking features of the impressive Broadcom StrataXGS Tomahawk Series to develop differentiated converged I/O platforms."
Interconnect Solutions Partners:
Rafik Ward, Vice President, Marketing, Finisar Corporation
"Finisar and Broadcom are well aligned in delivering state-of-the-art technologies to propel the transitions in Ethernet connectivity speeds. Advances in optical interconnects are necessary at these speeds and Finisar's leadership in optical communications will help Broadcom bring this new vision of data center Ethernet connectivity to reality. Finisar's broad portfolio of 100G optical transceivers and active optical cables, including optical modules supporting emerging 25GbE interfaces, match well with the advanced switching technology in the StrataXGS Tomahawk Series for 25G and 100G Ethernet scale-out and 25G Ethernet to the server."
Greg Young, President and CEO, Luxtera, Inc.
"We expect Broadcom's StrataXGS Tomahawk Series to be the catalyst for a new wave of network infrastructure, achieving a marked increase in port density, connectivity bandwidth and compute scale. This high-density technology will help drive explosive growth in leaf-spine networks that demand low-cost optical interconnect and accelerate the market transition to 25/50/100G Ethernet. As the leading provider of advanced 25/50G/100G silicon photonics optical transceivers for cloud computing, storage and HPC interconnect, we are proud to partner with Broadcom in delivering scalable and cost effective solutions to enable the next generation of data center networks."
Industry Analysts:
Seamus Crehan, President, Crehan Research
"Given that the vast majority of cloud-scale servers are now being deployed with network connection speeds of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and higher, we are already seeing pent-up demand for cost-effective high-density 25 Gigabit Ethernet top-of-rack data center switches and 100 Gigabit Ethernet spine and aggregation switches. Broadcom's new StrataXGS Tomahawk Series is addressing this demand and should help propel the data center switch market beyond the current 10 Gigabit era, just as the StrataXGS Trident Series helped drive this market beyond the one Gigabit era."
