Broadcom Ethernet Robo-OS™ - IC - part #BCM53158XMB1KFBG

Description

The Broadcom® Robo-OS™ is a lightweight operating system designed for L2 switching platforms that utilize next generation RoboSwitch™ architecture, also-known-as Robo II. It is a full software stack for system vendors, ODM, and OEM customers who are looking for a complete software solution for Web-managed SMB and industrial switches. Its supported features and design were carefully selected for these web-managed applications as well as the needed capabilities of the emerging cloud-managed switch market.

The Robo-OS lean structure and modest resource requirements, from compute and memory perspectives, enable it to run on-chip in its entirety, minimizing RBOM cost, and development effort for OEMs and ODMs.

The Robo-OS operating system building blocks (depicted in the block diagram below) utilize open-source-based software packages, such as OpenRTOS (based on the open-source FreeRTOS), LwIP (a lightweight open source TCP/IP stack) and other packages. By using open-source software packages, Robo-OS customers to benefit from a large community of developers and validation engineers delivering robust and up-to-date solutions to the broad industry. Moreover, this community constantly generates new features that can be easily integrated into the Robo-OS.

The Robo-OS is also designed to support cloud management solutions, where the network nodes are managed from a central location out-side the business premise. All of the Robo-OS web-based features can be activated through RESTful APIs and cloud agents. Through the integration of cloud management, end-users can deliver many of the features in managed switches using the same low-cost Robo Switch web-managed solution.

Broadcom Ethernet Robo-OS™ - IC - part #BCM53158XMB1KFBG

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