Network Interface Cards

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.

Based on Broadcom's scalable 10/25/50/100/200G Ethernet controller architecture, the NetXtreme®-E Series P150P 1x50G 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 P150P 1x50G 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 P150P 1x50G 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.

Based on Broadcom's scalable 10/25/50/100/200G Ethernet controller architecture, the NetXtreme®-E Series P225P 2x25G 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 P225P 2x25G 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 P225P 2x25G 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 25/10G dual-port SFP28 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

Based on Broadcom's scalable 10/25/50/100/200G Ethernet controller architecture, the NetXtreme®-E Series P210TP 2x10GBASE-T 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 P210TP 2x10GBASE-T 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 P210TP 2x10GBASE-T 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.

Designed for today's cloud-scale and enterprise environments, the Broadcom Ethernet NIC network adapters are the ideal solution for high-performance virtualization, intelligent flow processing, secure data center connectivity, and machine learning.

Open Compute Project (OCP) NIC 3.0 allows cloud providers and server OEMs to utilize compact server designs that can accommodate higher power density for high-performance NICs with advanced hardware acceleration capabilities. The form-factor also simplifies operations to lower the total cost of ownership.

Broadcom offers a complete OCP NIC 3.0 Ethernet portfolio supporting the full range of speeds and feeds, from 1G to 400G, on one same Small Form Factor (SFF). This portfolio leverages Broadcom's comprehensive family of low-power Ethernet controller ASICs.

Broadcom's Ethernet network controllers deliver best-in-class performance and hardware acceleration and offload capabilities that result in higher throughput, higher CPU efficiency, and lower workload latency for TCP/IP as well as RoCE traffic.

Broadcom OCP NIC 3.0 Ethernet adapters utilize the market-leading 100/50G PAM-4 and PCIe 4.0/5.0 SerDes technology, enabling extended length Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables, ensuring seamless interoperability with Broadcom's market-leading Top-of-Rack switch and PCIe Express switch solutions that also use the same SerDes technology.

Broadcom Ethernet adapters support SPDM-compliant attestation. Attestation enables data center operators to securely verify the authenticity and conformity of the hardware and software deployed in their data center.

Broadcom Ethernet adapters are supported with a full suite of drivers for all major operating system distributions and versions. The latest firmware, drivers, and tools can be downloaded from www.broadcom.com.

Applications

• GPU server networking (scale-out and front-end)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
• High performance computing (HPC)
• Storage servers
• Cloud and enterprise data center servers
• Network Function Virtualization
• NVMe storage disaggregation
• Mobile Edge Computing