Industry's first integrated chip for the virtual CPE market
Broadcom has announced what it claims is the industry's first fully integrated SoC for the virtual Customer Premise Equipment (vCPE) market. The BCM88312 integrated and programmable device can be seamlessly connected to the operator's network to deliver vCPE services. It is designed to provide carriers with flexibility to add new services in a dynamic, multi-vendor environment.
Today's legacy business-access solutions are hard-wired and lack fault management and standard operations, administration and management, thereby impacting the agility to rapidly provision new services. The SoC gives operators the ability to decouple services from the physical hardware and run them on standard compute infrastructure, thus facilitating faster time-to-market and enabling customers to customise their equipment based on evolving requirements.
The BCM88312 can be managed over OpenFlow, based on Broadcom's OpenFlow-Data Plane Abstraction (OF-DPA) layer framework, thereby extending OF-DPA from the infrastructure core all the way to the business CPE access. The device is sampling now with production-ready carrier-class reference code.
Ed Redmond, Vice President, Compute and Connectivity Group, Broadcom, comments: "One of the greatest challenges facing service providers is how to offer new services to their business customers rapidly and more cost effectively. By decoupling service delivery and activation from the physical infrastructure, Broadcom's integrated and programmable device enables carriers to turn-up services as VNFs without the need for manual provisioning and expensive truck rolls."
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