Broadcom StrataDNX Reviews

Name: Broadcom StrataDNX
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 4.3 (3 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Broadcom StrataDNX?

The StrataDNX product line offers the greatest extensibility and scalability of any merchant silicon switch in the industry, with the ability to scale both tables and buffering with external lookup engines or memory. The StrataDNX chips can also be connected together via DNX fabric elements to build industry-leading switches and routers with hundreds of terabits of bandwidth. The StrataDNX line features a service-rich, carrier-grade programmable architecture to meet the needs of service provider core, metro transport, mobile backhaul, microwave, POTN, access, and data center networks.

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Broadcom StrataDNX is the #26 ranked solution in top Ethernet Switches. PeerSpot users give Broadcom StrataDNX an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Broadcom StrataDNX is most commonly compared to Cisco Ethernet Switches: Broadcom StrataDNX vs Cisco Ethernet Switches. Broadcom StrataDNX is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 58% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a manufacturing company, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Featured Broadcom StrataDNX reviews

Wisely Ng

Senior rPLM and Consulting Engineering, IP and Optical Networks, APAC at Nokia Corporation

The Broadcom StrataDNX chipset, such as the DNX, is quite a generic chipset and from the cost perspective, it is quite cost-effective hardware. When we decide to use such an Ethernet switch, our R&D and headquarters consider using the Broadcom chipset as one of the merchandised chipsets in our system, providing a cost-effective solution to our customers. The cost-saving with Broadcom StrataDNX is one of the critical criteria for using the DNX as one of our hardware chipsets. From the features perspective, it is quite feature-rich, so we can leverage those existing functions on the SDK to develop our own features in our equipment.

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WILLIAM SANITATE

Vice President Of Engineering at O & S Services LLC

Customer service support depends on money. If you're a white box manufacturer and we're selling thousands of these, you're going to get awesome support, a ten, amazing support. But if you're starting and need only one or two chips, the support is just access to online stuff or whatever's been done. The better support comes with more units bought. Initially, I would probably rate the support a five out of ten. But then we paid more money, and suddenly, it became a ten, awesome. We had people showing up in the office and walking us through it. But there are also different support models. You can work with them directly or with distributors like Avnet or Arrow, who can provide support. And then there's higher level support with the team in Los Angeles who can provide even more support. It just depends on how many units you're going to buy. The more you buy, the more support you get in the queue.

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Masagung Nugroho

Senior IP Sales Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Use of the solution needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis. For the mobile backhaul I would recommend it but for the internet peering, or P core routers, it should be tested before implementing in the live network. For the mobile backhaul or up to the PE, however, StrataDNX is a proven solution.

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Broadcom StrataDNX mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of Broadcom StrataDNX in the Ethernet Switches category stands at 0.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The cost-saving with Broadcom StrataDNX is one of the critical criteria for using the DNX as one of our hardware chipsets, and from the features perspective, it is quite feature-rich, so we can leverage those existing functions on the SDK to develop our own features in our equipment."
"The Broadcom StrataDNX chipset, such as the DNX, is quite a generic chipset and from the cost perspective, it is quite cost-effective hardware."
"The good thing about the StrataDNX is that the Broadcom family is very interchangeable, so they work well with different optical transceivers."

Room for Improvement

"The standard features do not provide a full feature set, so we need to create our own features to compensate for those limitations."
"The standard features do not provide a full feature set, so we need to create our own features to compensate for those limitations."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."

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