RtBrick's pioneering IP/MPLS routing software has been
validated on the latest generation of open hardware platforms, which run on a
new chipset from Broadcom, known as Q2C. These high-performance
bare-metal-switches take telcos into a new era of choice and scale for both
their networking hardware and their software.
Switches based on the new Q2C chipset have deep
buffering capabilities, making them ideal for delivering complex IP services at
high scale at the edge of a telco network. For example, RtBrick's software
transforms them into powerful Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs) for delivering
broadband internet services, or generic IP/MPLS routers.
"Merchant silicon has brought Moore's Law back to
networking, which has stagnated behind other areas of IT," said Hannes Gredler,
founder and chief technology officer at RtBrick. "Traditional routers, built on
proprietary hardware, haven't kept pace with the price and performance gains of
bare-metal-switches, imposing high costs on telcos as they scale their
networks, as well as locking them into a single vendor. That's why so many
carriers are now looking to disaggregate their IP networks, using independent
software and hardware."
When used as a BNG, these new platforms will typically
be able to support about 16,000 subscribers on each switch, with 2.4Tbps of
throughput, about four times more than existing bare-metal-switches. They can
then be scaled in a spine-leaf architecture to build massive broadband networks
at a much lower cost than traditional routing systems.
"Broadcom's Q2c chipset, a member of the Jericho2 line
of products, takes the performance of bare-metal switch-routers to a whole new
level," said Oozie Parizer, senior director of product management, Core
Switching Group, Broadcom. "From an industry perspective, it is a significant
leap forward and equally important that software vendors like RtBrick can
transform it into fully-featured MPLS routers. RtBrick's BNG software and our
Q2C-based switches will give operators the capability to build open and
flexible broadband networks at huge scale- a win win for all."
The new generation of switches supports all of
RtBrick's existing service features, such as Hierarchical Quality of Service
(HQoS), IPTV multicast and Lawful Intercept.
To learn more about RtBrick's pioneering approach to
networking and the latest features of its open routing software, visit rtbrick.com.