Broadcom Claims 100 SiByte Wins

IRVINE, Calif. -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), the leading provider of silicon solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced that it has secured more than 100 designs for the Broadcom SiByte BCM1250, a state-of-the-art integrated dual MIPS64 processor designed to perform complex network and storage protocol processing tasks. The BCM1250 has been designed into a wide variety of high-volume, high-performance applications including enterprise routers, Layer 4-7 server switches and appliances, storage area network (SAN) switches, iSCSI/multi-protocol storage appliances, 2.5G/3G wireless service nodes, and virtual private network (VPN)/firewall/intrusion detection gateways, now shipping from leading communications and networking original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). "The BCM1250 processor, which has been shipping in volume for more than a year, establishes Broadcom as a pioneer and leader in broadband single-chip multi-processor solutions with its industry-leading performance, low power and integration," said David Kranzler, Senior Director of Broadcom's Broadband Processor Line of Business. "Our SiByte processors have enabled leading equipment vendors to achieve clearly differentiated products through superior system performance, increased board density and lower overall system cost." "Enterprise customers are demanding a single platform to solve their remote office networking and security challenges, and reduce operational costs," said Demetri Fanourgiakis, Vice President Routing Security & Mobility Engineering, Enterasys Networks. "Enterasys' next generation XSR-3000 and XSR-4000 series Security Routers leverage Broadcom's BCM1250, a highly integrated 64-bit MIPS multi-processor, to deliver high-performance, secure networking solutions. XSR Security Routers meet the future connectivity and scalability requirements of information-driven organizations, while extending the security perimeter to every branch and regional office." The SiByte processor is the processor of choice for a wide variety of companies, attesting to the performance and flexibility of its architecture. The symmetric multi-processing capability of the BCM1250 makes it particularly well suited for handling both control/exception processing and high-touch data plane applications that benefit from a flexible software programming model. The following is a partial list of applications currently using the BCM1250 processor:

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