Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720-2P Dual-Port Ethernet Server Adapter

Leveraging long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet, Broadcom now offers the NetXtreme BCM5720-2P Ethernet Server Adapter, providing the highest levels of performance, efficiency, and scalability for the enterprise data center.

Designed for today's enterprise and data center environments, the Broadcom BCM5720-2P Ethernet Server adapter is the ideal solution for multicore servers, delivering full line-rate throughput across all ports. The adapter utilizes Broadcom's field-proven dual-port BCM5720-2P integrated controller device to deliver lower power consumption and Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), reducing IT operation costs. The BCM5720-2P is compatible with x86 and x64 servers utilizing the PCIe v1.x and v2.x interfaces.

Increasing application workloads are placing greater demands on enterprise networks, and the BCM5720-2P-based dual-port 1GbE Server Adapter is the solution of choice for such environments, providing a reliable, highperformance, energy-efficient 1GbE connectivity solution.

FEATURES

• Dual-port 1GbE adapter for rack and tower servers

• x1 PCI Express (PCIe) v2.0 (5 GT/s) support

• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)

• I/O Virtualization supported with 17 receive queues and 16 transmit queues per port

• Full line-rate performance across all ports

• Broad OS and hypervisor support

• Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support

• Support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ

• Link aggregation and automatic load-balancing

• Wake-on-LAN support

• MSI and MSI-X support

• IPv4 and IPv6 offloads

• TCP, UDP, and IP checksum offloads

• Large Send Offload (LSO)

• TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)

• Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

• Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)

• VLAN support with VLAN tagging

• Jumbo frame support for frames larger than 1500 Bytes

• Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) management application

• iSCSI remote boot support

BENEFITS

• Accelerates Server Performance:

• Boosts network performance with full line-rate performance across all ports.

• Maximizes server processing performance by reducing CPU overhead and lowering interrupt latency through the use of the MSI-X standard.

• Boosts performance in Windows and Linux environments by directing interrupts to the server's CPU cores, leveraging Transmit/Receive Side Scaling (TSS/RSS).

• Delivers Advanced Ethernet Capabilities:

• Energy Efficient Ethernet-Reduces adapter power consumption by up to 42% through intelligent adaptive power management, adjusting power based on data traffic load.

• Robust Virtualization Capabilities:

• Superior network performance with support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ technologies.

• Enhances network management and efficiency with support for VLAN tagging.

• Streamlines Deployment and Management:

• Simplifies deployment and management complexity-Broadcom Ethernet solutions available across a wide range of server platforms.

• Unifies the Server Adapter and storage management using Broadcom Advanced Management Suite (BACS).