'Industry's first' 28nm EDC PHY

Demand for increased bandwidth for processing and transmission of data is driving the need for higher performance and port density with lower power per port. Broadcom's new PHY provides a 30% reduction in power consumption together with an enhanced feature set and a flexible footprint-compatible migration path for enterprise and service provider networks seeking higher performance and greater bandwidth capacity.

"With increasing bandwidth and traffic demands being placed on the network, product migration to smaller geometries enabling reduced power consumption continues to be critical to our customers," said Lorenzo Longo, Vice President and General Manager, Physical Layer Products, Broadcom. "Broadcom is committed to continue investing in this technology to roll out lower power EDC/LRM PHY devices with advanced feature sets."

The BCM82780, based on EDC technology, enables 10/40GbE data transmission with LRM support. It also handles SR, LR and ER and ZR optical interfaces for added flexibility supporting a broad range of high-bandwidth applications. The multirate PHY is compatible with SMF, MMF or copper twin-axial applications on the front panel. It features an all-DSP high-speed front end, which provides the highest performance and flexibility for line-card designers across 40, 10 or 1GbE systems.

Broadcom will showcase its latest innovations for high speed interconnects at the OFC Technical Conference in Los Angeles, 24^th to 26^th March 2015.