Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation
Manufacturer Part Number: BCM95720A2003AC
Manufacturer Website Address: https://www.broadcom.com
Brand Name: Broadcom
Product Line: NetXtreme
Product Model: BCM5720-2P
Product Name: NetXtreme BCM5720-2P Dual-Port Ethernet Server Adapter
Marketing Information: 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).
Product Type: Gigabit Ethernet Card
Interfaces/Ports
Host Interface: PCI Express 2.0 x1
Total Number of Ports: 2
Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports: 2
Media & Performance
Media Type Supported: Twisted Pair
Network & Communication
Network Technology: 10/100/1000Base-T
Physical Characteristics
Form Factor: Plug-in Card
Height: 2.7″
Depth: 4.3″
Miscellaneous
Device Supported: Server