Cisco powers up Nexus switch, offers 800GB optic modules
Cisco is using its high-powered Silicon One chip technology to turn up the power and efficiency of its Nexus family of data center, hyperscaler and cloud switches.
The company rolled out a new high-end Nexus switch for the data center and one aimed at disaggregated applications. Cisco also added an 800Gb Ethernet module. Each of the new additions is powered by the company’s advanced Silicon One technology.
Introduced in 2019, Cisco’s Silicon One architecture uses the vendor’s custom chip technology, which features optical-routing silicon, deep buffering with rich QoS, and programmable forwarding.
Silicon One boxes are programmable and can be customized for a range of applications from a single chipset, eliminating the need to deploy multiple, specific silicon for standalone processors, line-card processors, and fabric elements, according to Cisco. This is accomplished with a common and unified P4 programmable-forwarding code and SDK, Cisco says.