All product development cycles are different. Whether you have to meet tight deadlines, create cost-effective solutions, or design for harsh environments, successful product designs are critical to the success of your organization!
At AimValley we understand your need to respond to the demanding requirements of your customers. Based on years of close co-operation with Broadcom® during the development of various ‘Broadcom-based’ products, AimValley has created the AimOS Family.
Whether you are looking for cost-effectiveness, convertible components, or robustness, AimValley has the right software to help you design your Ethernet switch seamlessly.
AimOS Family
AimOS is a collection of software assets and tools to develop carrier-grade telecom and datacom systems. It is a field-proven solution with a first deployment in 2003 and has been used in more than 100,000 deployed systems. Some of these systems are developed by AimValley as Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) systems, others are developed jointly with our customers.
AimOS can be customized for different application areas. Ranging from a high-end carrier-class Ethernet switch support SNMP to a cost optimized industrial Ethernet switch with an embedded web GUI and from an SDH multiplexer to a WDM mobile front-haul system. A key part of AimOS, is a flexible hardware abstraction layer, which allows the use of different hardware architectures, for example, an architecture based on Broadcom switching silicon or on AMD FPGAs.
All users benefit from the key advantages of the AimOS, being;
AimOS Versions
AimOS is available in different flavors, each tailored for a specific application. Each version has key features required for any carrier-grade solution, such as support for fail-safe software upgrades, hitless recovery, and file system robustness.
The software supports a modular hardware abstraction layer and contains various components.
Watch our AimOS How-To Videos
AimOS Generic
The generic version can be customized for different hardware platforms. This version supports features like a modular hardware abstraction layer, components for e.g. a POSIX compliant operating system abstraction, an XML driven management interface, support for SNMP, web interface, CLI, and handling of hitless and fail-safe software upgrades.
AimOS Ethernet
This version of AimOS is customized for Ethernet switches based on the switch silicon SDK, for example, the Broadcom Robo, StrataConnect, and StratXGS switches. AimOS Ethernet has been tailored specifically for integration with Broadcom SDK, enabling seamless Ethernet switch design. A license-free binary version is available for evaluation.
AimOS Robo
The AimOS Robo version is designed for the Broadcom RoboSwitch 2 family using the embedded processor. This version is based on Broadcom’s RoboOS which AimValley has hardened by adding various robustness features and is targeted at applications using the embedded CPU of this cost-effective Ethernet switch family. Besides hardening AimValley also improved the web-server performance as can be seen in the video below. A license-free binary version is available for evaluation.
AimValley Software Expertise
AimValley helps you with product development based on the AimOS family. This collection of software assets and tools can also be used for other Broadcom switches, enabling us to help you with any ‘Broadcom-based’ design.
Services range from consultancy during your architecture phase, porting the AimOS to your own hardware, designing your hardware up to full system development including production, up until maintenance & support. We take care of every step in your development process, either based on your spec set or as a joint development project.
Our experienced engineering team with expertise in systems engineering, software, electronic, and FPGA design can support you with all steps in your product development process. The Broadcom experience of our teams is well known in the industry.
- Reliable partnership
- Design flexibility
- Extensive experience in developing telecom and datacom systems
- Strong track record in delivering as planned and within budget
- Evaluation of jump-start product development
- AimOS supports various hardware platforms
- Key software and hardware expertise available for the RoboOS, StrataConnect and StrataXGS.
- "Done That" Software
Have a go with our demos!
Some of the Broadcom Ethernet switch evaluation boards can be used with a license-free binary evaluation version of the AimOS, to quickly evaluate the AimOS and Broadcom devices.
To demonstrate how easy-to-use user friendliness of AimOS, we have created two demo editions of our AimOS versions.
These demos run in a simulated environment and support a limited number of features.
Why not have a go yourself, and request access!
Development Updates
- 2022/08 - Demos available for AimOS-Robo and AimOS-Ethernet
- 2022/04 - AimOS part of standard AimValley Support Team
- 2021/09 - Introduction AimOS Development Kit R2
- 2021/06 - Introduction Smart Network Tool
- 2021/05 - AimOS-Ethernet, adding Layer 3 routing features (FRR)
- 2021/03 - Introduction AimOS-Ethernet
- 2019 - Introduction AimOS-Robo, adding hardening features for robustness
- 2018 - Introduction AimOS
- 2013-2018 - Development of various applications for telecom and datacom
