Broadcom Reaches 800 Million Ethernet Port Milestone
Broadcom announced a major product shipment milestone: 800 million Ethernet ports, including over 300 million complete switch ports, to networking and personal computer companies worldwide.
In tracking GbE controllers, Broadcom counts an integrated MAC and PHY as one Ethernet port, defining the pair as a complete solution that is shipped to a PC or server manufacturer. The same is true in determining switch ports since a complete enterprise switching solution typically includes a PHY, MAC and switch fabric. http://www.broadcom.com
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You just read about Broadcom. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
NetLogic Microsystems built Network processors, knowledge-based processors and PHYs. What became of it?
NetLogic Microsystems brought Network processors, knowledge-based processors and PHYs to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Broadcom for US$3.7B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Broadcom today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about Ethernet. Here is what it replaced:
Token Ring (802.5) served 1985–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
Token Ring (802.5) stations passed a small 'token' frame around a logical ring; only the token-holder could transmit, giving deterministic, collision-free access at the cost of ring-management overhead. Its job passed to Ethernet — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
