The IBTA is pleased to announce Broadcom has become an official member company.
Broadcom, which develops end-to-end solutions for data center architectures including Ethernet switch, controller and other devices, joined the IBTA to assist the industry in its adoption of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) enabled Ethernet networks and to help the association in its ongoing development of the RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) specification.
“Broadcom believes that RDMA is one of several interesting technologies that have promise to simplify and accelerate applications using more intelligence in the network,” said Nick Ilyadis, Vice President & CTO, Infrastructure and Networking Group at Broadcom. “Enabling use of RDMA over Ethernet networks, as RoCE does, provides a more comprehensive and converged solution for Ethernet-based data center fabric topologies.
Broadcom is considering adding RDMA support into a variety of Ethernet products and anticipates that its experience with Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) standards development will help in the on-going work of generating and maintaining a well-engineered, interoperable and collaborative specification for use by all IBTA members.
Broadcom’s main interest as part of the IBTA is to contribute to the ongoing development of the RoCE specification as part of the IBoXE Working Group. Broadcom is also a member of the IBTA Technical and Marketing Working Groups.
Broadcom has found a welcoming environment within the IBTA. “The association is made up of a very collaborative set of companies and technologists,” Nick Ilyadis said.
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