Cisco announces Cisco Silicon One G200, Cisco Silicon One G202

Three and a half years after launching Cisco Silicon One, Cisco is announcing its fourth-generation set of devices, the Cisco Silicon One G200 and Cisco Silicon One G202, which it is sampling to customers now. The Cisco Silicon One G200 offers the benefits of the company’s unified architecture and focuses specifically on enhanced Ethernet-based artificial intelligence/machine learning and web-scale spine deployments. The Cisco Silicon One G200 is a 5 nm, 51.2 Tbps, 512 x 112 Gbps serializer-deserializer device. It is a programmable, deterministic, low-latency device with advanced visibility and control, making it the ideal choice for web-scale networks. The Cisco Silicon One G202 brings similar benefits to customers who still want to use the 50G SerDes for connecting optics to the switch. It is a 5 nm, 25.6 Tbps, 512 x 56 Gbps SerDes device with the same characteristics as the Cisco Silicon One G200 but with half the performance. Cisco said it is also “pleased to announce our next-generation, ultra-high performance, and low-power 112 Gbps ADC SerDes capable of ultra-long reach channels supporting 4-meter direct-attach cables, traditional optics, linear drive optics, and co-packaged optics, while minimizing silicon die area and power.”