The U.S. supplier Broadcom has indicated that the first module developed for, of 100 gigabits per second data stream can switch one. Through scalable connections to networks so theoretical speed of 100 terabits per second. Networks beyond 10 Gigabit Ethernet in data centers and are in telecommunications service providers already a reality. They are used primarily for IP traffic, as well as fast backplanes in servers and supercomputers.

The chip maker claims to have built so that the first chip, the switches 100 Gigabit Ethernet in the layers 2 and 4 with traffic shaping. Several of the chips can be bundled, so that in itself can reach up to 100 terabits per second. For this, the BCM88600 can also directly without going through the logs of user data exchange data with each other.