Broadcom delivers Bailly Ethernet switch to customers

Broadcom has delivered Bailly, the industry’s first 51.2 terabits per sec co-packaged optics Ethernet switch, to its customers. The product integrates eight silicon photonics based 6.4-Tbps optical engines with Broadcom’s best-in-class StrataXGS Tomahawk 5 switch chip. Bailly enables the optical interconnect to operate at 70% lower power consumption and delivers an 8x improvement in silicon area efficiency as compared to pluggable transceiver solutions.