Network & Communication

Designed for today's enterprise and data center environments, Broadcom's NetXtreme® 1G Ethernet Adapters are the ideal solution for multicore servers, delivering full line-rate throughput across all ports.

The BCM5720 PCIe NIC is a 13th-generation 10/100/1000BASE-T and 10/100/1000BASE-X Ethernet LAN controller solution for high-performance server and networking applications. The host interface supports a separate PCI Express function for each LAN interface. The BCM5720 includes I/O Virtualization (IOV) features such as 17 receive and 16 transmit queues, and 17 MSI-X vectors with flexible vector-to-queue association. These IOV features enable the BCM5720 to support the VMWare® NetQueue and Microsoft® VMQ technologies.

The BCM5720 includes a comprehensive set of hardware features that the system may use to implement IEEE 1588 or IEEE 802.1AS-based time synchronization. These hardware features include a high-precision clock, timestamp registers for receive/transmit packets, and programmable trigger inputs and watchdog outputs.

Based on Broadcom's scalable 10/25/50/100/200G Ethernet controller architecture, the NetXtreme®-E Series P210P 2x10G PCIe NIC is designed to build highly-scalable, feature-rich networking solutions in servers for enterprise and cloud-scale networking and storage applications, including high-performance computing, telco, machine learning, storage disaggregation, and data analytics.

The P210P 2x10G PCIe NIC builds upon the success of the widely-deployed NetXtreme E-Series architecture by combining a high-bandwidth Ethernet controller with a unique set of highly-optimized hardware acceleration engines to enhance network performance and improve server efficiency.

Driven by the growing need for higher server bandwidth and storage capacity to support new and emerging applications, enterprises, telcos and cloud providers are modernizing their data centers by adopting latest networking technologies, such as server virtualization and NVMe-oF™. The resulting expansion in data volumes increases server-to-server traffic and CPU loads for networking tasks.

With its market-leading hardware acceleration technologies, the NetXtreme-E Series P210P 2x10G PCIe NIC addresses these performance and service demands of mega-scale data center networks with high throughput and advanced flow processing. Features such as TruFlow™ increase VM density up to 50 percent, freeing more CPU cycles for additional virtual machines. On-chip tunneling protocol processing for Geneve, VXLAN, and NVGRE provides up to a 5X throughput increase while lowering CPU utilization up to 90 percent compared to software-only solutions. NetXtreme-E Series solutions also support advanced networking technologies such as RoCE, SDN and NFV, to facilitate the management of data networks and to enable service provider solutions.

Features

• Standards-compliant 10G dual-port SFP+ PCIe NIC with line-rate, full-duplex throughput
• NIC partitioning supporting 16 physical functions (PFs)
• TruFlow™ engine for intelligent flow processing to increase server VM density and accelerate vSwitch processing
• Industry's most secure PCIe NIC solution leveraging Broadcom's BroadSAFE® technology to provide unparalleled platform security via Silicon Root of Trust
• New end-to-end congestion avoidance and management to anticipate and eliminate congestion before it happens
• Support for advanced networking technologies including RoCE, SDN, NFV and virtualization
• TruManage™ enhances server manageability and security for data center deployments

Applications

• Cloud and Web2.0 data center servers
• Enterprise data center servers
• Private Cloud
• Machine Learning (ML) clusters
• High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters
• Multi-node container platforms
• NVMe storage disaggregation (NVMe-oF)
• Database servers

The Broadcom® BCM957412N4120C is a dual-port 10 Gb/s PCI Express 3.0 x8 network adapter designed to the Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 Design Specification in small form factor with two SFP+ network connectors. The adapter supports SFP+ optical modules and copper directattach cables. The network adapter uses the Broadcom BCM57412 25GbE MAC controller with an integrated dual-channel 10GbE SFI transceiver.

Features

• Dual-port pluggable media interface, which can connect to a 10G SFP+ optical transceiver or a copper directattach cable.
• Fully compliant with the SFF-8402 standard.
• x8 PCI Express 3.0 compliant.
• SR-IOV with up to 128 virtual functions (VFs).
• Function-Level Reset (FLR) support.
• TruFlow™ flow processing engine.
• Virtual Network Termination-VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, GRE encap/decap.
• vSwitch Acceleration.
• Tunnel-aware stateless offloads.
• DCB support - PFC, ETS, QCN, DCBx.
• RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE).
• Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI).
• SMBus 2.0.
• MCTP over SMBus.
• PCIe-based UART and KCS.
• Jumbo frames up to 9 KB.
• Advanced congestion avoidance.
• Multiqueue, NetQueue, and VMQ.
• IPv4 and IPv6 offloads.
• TCP, UDP, and IP checksum offloads.
• Large send offload (LSO).
• Large receive offload (LRO).
• TCP segmentation offload (TSO).
• Receive-side scaling (RSS).
• Transmit-side scaling (TSS).
• VLAN insertion/removal.
• Interrupt coalescing.
• Network boot-PXE, UEFI.
• iSCSI boot.
• Wake-on-LAN (WOL).
• MSI and MSI-X.
• Conforms to the OCP 3.0 Design Specification Version 1.00.

• Dual-port 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter for OCP systems.