Cisco Silicon One G200 & G300

Hardware for artificial intelligence (AI) networking and web-scale, enterprise, and service provider networks is built around switching silicon, routing line card silicon, and routing fabric silicon. These three basic building blocks enable silicon and system vendors to create unique architectures tuned for individual markets and industries. However, forcing customers to consume and manage these disjointed, dissimilar products has also caused an explosion in complexity, CapEx, and OpEx.

The Cisco Silicon One^™ architecture ushered in a new era of networking, enabling one silicon architecture to address a broad market space while simultaneously providing best-in-class devices. Cisco Silicon One doesn’t mean one device across the network, but one architecture and many optimized devices across the network.

At 102.4 Tbps, the Cisco Silicon One G300 processor builds on the groundbreaking technology of the Cisco Silicon One G200. What’s more, it fully optimizes the design for high-bandwidth, AI networking and web-scale switching, enabling a deterministic, low-latency, and power-efficient 64x 1600 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch.

The Cisco Silicon One G300 processor is a 102.4-Tbps, full-duplex, standalone switching processor that can be used to build fixed-form-factor switches ideally targeted for web-scale data center spine and leaf applications spanning front-end, back-end, scale-out, and scale-up networking roles serving AI applications.