Broadcom

About Broadcom

Since 1983, IXYS Corporation, a Silicon Valley power semiconductor company, has been developing technology-driven products to improve power conversion efficiency, generate clean energy and improve automation. With a customer base of over 2,500 telecommunications, transportation, industrial, medical and consumer companies, IXYS is a worldwide provider of semiconductors. IXYS, and its subsidiaries, offer a diversified product portfolio addressing more than 90% of the high-power spectrum.

Product Offerings

Broadcom's unmatched offering of solutions for the broadband communication, mobile and wirelss, and network infrastructure markets can be found at Arrow Electronics.

Ethernet

Broadcom's offering of Ethernet devices provides state-of-the-art solutions for both the Enterprise Network and the Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) spaces. From integrated, low power chips that enable increasing amounts of complex voice, video and data traffic to be transmitted, managed and prioritized at broadband speeds throughout the enterprise, to infrastructure solutions that make Gigabit Ethernet performance a reality for SMBs, Arrow and Broadcom partner to help bring your Ethernet solutions to market.

Power Over Ethernet (POE)

PoE, which brings DC power to powered devices within enterprise, SMB or home networks, is a LAN technology that provides power over twisted pair Ethernet cables. Find Broadcom's offering of POE devices online at Arrow.

Gigabit Ethernet

Broadcom is the leading provider of Gigabit Ethernet chips, offering solutions ranging from converged network interface cards (C-NICs) for LAN on motherboard (LOM) to proven Gigabit Ethernet controllers that consistently outperform the competition. Broadcom's NetXtreme™ Gigabit Ethernet Controllers offer an integrated MAC (media access controller) and transceiver on a single chip. Arrow caries Broadcom's complete portfolio of Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers, Gigabit Ethernet Switching products, and Gigabit Ethernet controllers.

Fast Ethernet

100BASE-T10, known as Fast Ethernet, is typically used for LAN backbone systems and offers transmission speeds up to 100 megabits per second. Broadcom offers a broad portfolio of Fast Ethernet products, available through Arrow Electronics.

Switching Products:

• ROBOswitch™
• strataXGS®

Tranceivers:

• Single PHY
• Dual PHY
• Quad-PHY
• Octal-PHY

High Speed Switching Fabric Solutions

Broadcom's advanced terabit switching fabric chips provide switching solutions with optimal performance, quality-of-service and end-to-end subscriber bandwidth, enabling manufacturers to develop highly integrated, low power, modular back plane solutions, leverageable across multiple platforms. Broadcom's 24 gbps ethernet packet processors, 630 gbps high-performance packet switch fabric, traffic management engines, high-end packet switch fabric for metro and enterprise core networking systems create an unmatched offering in the high-speed switching space.

Communications Processors

For your applications in the server, storage, data networking and wireless equipment market, Broadcom's MIPS-based® processors will allow you to achieve high-density solutions with excellent performance and low power. Arrow and Broadcom partner to bring you Broadcom's complete offering of single-core, dual-core, and quad-core 64 bit MIPS® processors and single-core 32 bit MIPS® processors.

Broadcom's offerings of SerDes devices, Security Processors, and Storage devices are also available through Arrow Electronics.