Arrcus Raises $30M Series B, Rolls Out 5G Networking Products

Arrcus, the white box startup taking on Cisco, closed a $30 million Series B funding round and rolled out new networking products: 100 gigabit and 400G Ethernet routers for hyperscale cloud, edge, and 5G networks, and an artificial-intelligence (AI)-based analytics platform. The first product combines Arrcus’ hardware-agnostic operating system, ArcOS, with Broadcom’s merchant silicon, its Jericho2 switch-router system-on-a-chip (SoC). Arrcus says its software running on Jericho2 provides faster network speeds — up to 10 terabits per second switching capacity — which delivers five times the performance compared to the previous generation of Jericho silicon. The hardware plus ArcOS also gives users a four-fold increase in port density per chip compared to the previous generation of Jericho and a higher route table scale, the vendor claims. This helps cloud providers and network operators meet the high-bandwidth, low-latency requirements of 5G networks and edge computing, said Devesh Garg, cofounder and CEO of Arrcus.