Broadcom Optimizes New Chip for $8B Mobile Backhaul Market

With the striking rise in the number of smartphone and tablet users, existing backhaul networks are struggling to support the increasing requirements of high-bandwidth mobile video and data services. Leading carriers around the world have embarked on an aggressive strategy to upgrade their mobile networks in order to manage the explosive growth in traffic.

Broadcom's latest high performance StrataXGS chip is capable of delivering 1000x more bandwidth(1), allowing carriers to easily upgrade legacy backhaul networks and transition to 4G.

Highlights/Key Facts:

* Smartphone penetration is expected to double during the next four years(2).
* Smartphones require 10x more bandwidth than a normal feature phone(4).
* Tablet PC sales are forecasted to reach 126 million units in 2015(3).
* Tablet PCs generate 100 times more traffic than a feature phone(4).
* Analyst firm Infonetics predicts mobile backhaul expenditures to reach $8B billion by 2014(5).
* Ethernet is expected to be the dominant carrier technology by 2014, approaching 100 percent usage in mobile network base stations(5).
* The Broadcom® StrataXGS BCM56440 switch series provides a seamless migration path to Ethernet class performance in the mobile backhaul, delivering 1000x more bandwidth.
* Devices are now sampling with production volume expected in calendar Q4 2011.