Arrcus, a start-up that offers a hardware-agnostic network operating system for white boxes switches, announced multiple high-density 100GbE and 400GbE routing solutions for hyperscale cloud, edge, and 5G networks.
The company says its ArcOS software architecture has the foundational attributes to scale-out to an open aggregated routing solution, enabling operators to design, deploy, operationalize, and manage their infrastructure across multiple domains in the network.
“Our mission is to democratize the networking industry by providing best-in-class software, the most flexible consumption model, and the lowest total cost of ownership for our customers; we are now extending this by providing leading-edge open integration solutions for routing. ArcOS is the essential link to fully realize the unparalleled advancements in the 10Tbps Jericho2 SoC family and the resulting systems,” Devesh Garg, co-founder and CEO of Arrcus.
The new ArcOS-based platforms, based on Broadcom’s 10Tbps, highly-flexible and programmable StrataDNX Jericho2 switch-router system-on-a-chip (SoC), include:
- 24 ports of 100G + 6 ports of 400G
- 40 ports of 100G
- 80 ports of 100G
- 96 ports of 100G
Key features enabled on these Jericho2-based platforms include:
- Faster network speeds – up to 10 Tbps switching capacity, which delivers 5X the performance compared to previous generation of Jericho+
- 4X increase in port density per chip compared to previous generation of Jericho+
- Higher route table scale – up to 2.6M IPv4 routes (1.3M IPv6) on chip
- Higher ACL scale of 96K with full IPv6 egress ACL support
- Line-rate flow monitoring with sFlow® that enables real-time flow visibility at scale
- Support for IPv4/IPv6/MPLS/Segment Routing forwarding
- Open standards-based BGP Flowspec
- Efficient, carrier-grade traffic management with scalable packet buffer memory
- Visibility into HW resource utilization (ACLs, routes, etc.) to assist with traffic distribution
- Selectable scale profiles with an ability to switch between profiles without a full system reboot
- Arrcus is also announcing the availability of ArcIQTM, an AI-driven analytics platform for delivering real-time, transformational insights and telemetry at scale for a modern network operations center (NOC) solution.
In addition, Arrcus announced $30 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital raised to date to $49 million.
The new funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and included full participation from existing investors General Catalyst and Clear Ventures.
Arrcus, which is based in San Jose, California, was founded in 2016 by Broadcom and Cisco veterans, Devesh Garg, Keyur Patel, and Derek Yeung. Company advisors include:
- Pankaj Patel, former EVP and CDO, Cisco
- Amarjit Gill, serial entrepreneur who founded and sold companies to Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, EMC, Facebook, Google, and Intel
- Kelly Ahuja, former SVP/GM, Service Provider Business, Cisco & presently CEO, Versa
- Fred Baker, former Cisco Fellow, IETF Chair & Co-Chair, IPv6 Working Group
- Farzad Nazem, former CTO, Yahoo
- Rajiv Patel, ex-VP of Engineering, Juniper
- Shawn Zandi, Director of Network Engineering, LinkedIn
- Nancy Lee, CHRO of Lime, ex-VP of People, Google
Broadcom’s Jericho2 switch-routing chip boasts 10 Tbps capacity
Broadcom announced commercial availability of its Jericho2 and FE9600 chips, the next generation of its StrataDNX family of system-on-chip (SoC) Switch-Routers.
The Jericho2 silicon boasts 10 Terabits per second of Switch-Router performance and is designed for high-density, industry standard 400GbE, 200GbE, and 100GbE interfaces. Key features include the company’s “Elastic Pipe” packet processing, along with large-scale buffering with integrated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).
The new device is shipping within 24 months from its predecessor Jericho+., Jericho2 delivers 5X higher bandwidth at 70% lower power per gigabit.
In addition to Jericho2, Broadcom is shipping FE9600, the new fabric switch device with 192 links of the industry’s best performing and longest-reach 50G PAM-4 SerDes. This device offers 9.6 Terabits per second fabric capacity, a delivers 50% reduction in power per gigabit compared to its predecessor FE3600.
“The Jericho franchise is the industry’s most innovative and scalable silicon used today in various Switch-Routers by leading carriers,” said Ram Velaga, Broadcom senior vice president and general manager, Switch Products. “I am thrilled with the 5X increase in performance Jericho2 was able to achieve over a single generation. Jericho2 will accelerate the transition of carrier-grade networks to merchant silicon-based systems with best-in-class cost/performance.”
