New XLP900 Multicore Communication Processor

Broadcom, a leader in semiconductor innovation solutions for wireline and wireless communications worldwide, announced the launch of the world’s highest performing 28nm multicore communications processor. The new XLP900 Series is optimized for deployment of network functions such as hardware acceleration, virtualization and deep packet inspection.

The world's leading operators are aggressively promoting high-speed 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced services to handle the exponential growth of connected devices, video traffic and users. To solve these problems, equipment manufacturers are developing a new type of system to meet the needs of speed, quality of service (QoS), security and power efficiency of next-generation mobile infrastructure networks. As a result, the demand for more intelligent next-generation communication processors will gradually increase, and new processors will provide users with more outstanding performance and expansion capabilities.

"Our new XLP900 Series processor integrates server-class CPU core performance with industry-leading networking and communications technology to provide the industry's highest performance, largest expandable smart processor for next-generation networks." Broadcom processor and wireless infrastructure Ron Jankov, senior vice president and general manager, said, “Broadcom is the first in the industry to launch a multi-core solution that operates in the market at up to 1 trillion operations per second, and we have further improved our position as a technology leader.”

In addition to bandwidth and performance limitations, carriers, data centers, enterprises, and other mission-critical networks are more vulnerable to security attacks. Protecting these networks has become the highest task for network owners and managers. This has greatly increased the demand for network speeds to enable inspection, encryption, verification and protection of network traffic security, and prevention of increasingly sophisticated malware and intrusion threats.

The XLP900 Series processors are highly optimized and are well-suited to meet the stringent requirements of operators, data centers, and enterprise networks for performance, security, efficiency, and scalability. Implementing quad-issue, quad threading, and out-of-order execution architectures with multi-chip consistency, the XLP900 Series is the industry's first computing performance of more than 10,000 per second Million operation processor solutions. The flagship processor has end-to-end virtualization capabilities, advanced security features such as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), and innovative network and application intelligence technologies for wire-speed networking and multi-layer QoS capabilities.

"Increasing traffic speeds and providing greater security and flexibility at the same time drastically increases the pressure on operators' networks to handle demand." The Linley Group (The Linley Group) Principal Analyst and "Microprocessor Report" (Microprocessor Report) Linley Gwennap, editor-in-chief, said, "The XLP900 Series is the most powerful communications processor available on the market, enabling Broadcom to meet the performance needs of next-generation carrier-grade devices and higher-end devices."

Key Features ● 160Gbps application performance, scalable to 1.28Tbps

● Provides full end-to-end hardware virtualization support for CPU cores, I/Os, hardware accelerators, and on-chip interconnects ● Supports hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) through protected memory, resources, and I/O, supporting KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) and QEMU (open source Quick EMUlater)

● Highest 100Gbps encryption and authentication performance in the industry, scalable to 800Gbps

● Industry's highest 40Gbps deep packet inspection with syntax processing, scalable to 320Gbps

● 20Gbps compression and decompression capabilities, scalable to 160Gbps

● RAID5/6 engine, supporting data replication