With 2014 and 2015 being the years of open networking pilots and deployments, respectively, much focus was on the upcoming announcements of high-density 40GbE spine switches from Cisco’s Nexus 9000 series, Arista’s 7500E and HP’s 11900/12900.

The new generation of hybrid switching leverages the forwarding and power efficiency gains afforded by merchant silicon and higher value network services of custom ASIC.
Three Reference Designs to 288 40BgE Spine Switching:
• Broadcom Dune
• Broadcom Trident II
• Hybrid Broadcom Trident II + Custom ASIC

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