5720 Product Brief

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QUAD-PORT GbE NETWORK DAUGHTER CARD FOR DELL
PowerEdge® 12G RACK SERVERS
Highlights
• Delivers full line-rate performance across all ports.
• Ideal for high transaction environments requiring greater
small-packet performance.
• Quad-port connectivity for
improved performance in multiprocessor systems.
• Optimizes virtualization:
VMware® NetQueue™ and
Microsoft® VMQ support.
• Reduces card power consumption up to 42% leveraging Energy
Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standards.
• Support for Precision Time
Protocol (PTP) provides more
granular level of time synchronization between the constituents
of an Ethernet network for
greater accuracy in data packet
delivery.
• Streamlines administrative tasks:
Broadcom Advanced Control
Suite (BACS) management application and integration into Dell's
embedded management framework (iDRAC7 and Lifecycle Controller).
• Improves reliability and interoperability—leverages Broadcom's
market-proven Ethernet architecture and software.
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5720
Service
Provider
Data Centers
Enterprise
Best Choice
Overview
Broadcom® now offers a quad-port 1 Gb Ethernet
(GbE) Network Daughter Card (NDC) for Dell®
PowerEdge® 12G rack servers. This network
adapter leverages Broadcom's long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet, providing the highest
levels of performance, efficiency, and scalability for
the enterprise data center.
Designed for today's enterprise, the Broadcom
5720-based NDC is the ideal solution for multicore
servers, delivering full line-rate throughput across
all ports. The card utilizes Broadcom's 5720 integrated controller to deliver lower power consumption and Energy Efficient Ethernet™ (EEE), reducing
IT operation costs.
Increasing application workloads are placing
greater demands on enterprise networks, and the
Broadcom 5720-based quad-port 1GbE Network
Daughter Card is the solution of choice for such
environments, providing a reliable, highperformance, energy-efficient 1GbE connectivity
solution.
Features
• Quad-port GbE Network Daughter Card for
Dell PowerEdge 12G rack servers
• Two x1 PCI Express® (PCIe™) v2.0 (5 GT/s)
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• Full line-rate performance across all ports
• Broad OS and hypervisor support
• iSCSI remote boot 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
• Stateless offload
• TCP, UDP, and IP checksum
• 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
• Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
• Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS)
management application and integration into
Dell's embedded management framework
(iDRAC7 and Lifecycle Controller)
Benefits
Specifications
• Accelerates Server Performance:
– Speeds network performance with full line-rate performance across all ports.
– Optimizes 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 (EEE)—Reduces card power
consumption by up to 42% through intelligent adaptive
power management, adjusting power based on data
traffic load.
– Precision Time Protocol (PTP)—Provides greater accuracy
of data packet delivery within the network.
General
Form factor
Supported servers
Bus type
Data transfer rate per port
MAC controller
Connector
OS Support
Microsoft
Linux
VMware
Citrix
Broadcom
BACS management application, WMI, and
Broadcom Management API (BMAPI)
Embedded management framework (iDRAC and
Lifecycle Controller)
Environmental Requirements
Operating temperature
Storage temperature
Relative humidity
32°F to 131°F (0°C to 55°C)
–40°F to 149°F (–40°C to 65°C)
5% to 95% noncondensing
Hardware
Certifications
• Streamlines Deployment and Management:
– Increases deployment flexibility with four GbE connectivity ports.
– Simplifies deployment and management complexity—
Broadcom Ethernet solutions available across a wide
range of Dell server platforms.
– Unifies the NIC and storage management using Dell iDRAC
and Lifecycle Controller management framework or
Broadcom Advanced Management Suite (BACS).
Windows Server® 2008, 2008 R2, all editions
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.7/5.8, 6.1/6.2
Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10
SP4, 11 SP2
vSphere™ 4.1 and 5.0
XenServer 6.0
Management
Dell
• Robust Virtualization Capabilities:
– Superior network performance with support for VMware
NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ technologies.
– Enhances network management and efficiency with support for VLAN/VLAN tagging.
NDC 3.66" x 3.93" (93 mm x 100 mm)
Dell PowerEdge 12G Rack (R720, R720XD, R620)
servers.
Two x1 PCI Express® (PCIe) v2.0 (5 GT/s)
10/100/1000 Mbps
BCM5720
RJ45
RoHS, FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KC
Advanced Features and Standards
PCI Express base specification 2.0
PCI bus power management interface (rev. 1.2)
Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
TCP segmentation/large send offload
ACPI v2.0
SMBus 2.0
IEEE 802.3ad/802.1ax Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
IEEE 802.3az—Energy Efficient Ethernet
IEEE 802.1q—Virtual LAN (VLAN) support—VLAN tagging support
IEEE 802.3x—Flow control
IEEE 802.3 (Clause 30)—Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, and Ethernet MIB
IPv4 and IPv6 offload
Teaming support
IEEE 1588—Precision Time Protocol (PTP)-ready
MSI-X supports independent queues.
Ordering Information
Broadcom 5720 Quad-Port 1GbE Rack Network Daughter Card
PG SKU#
430-4418
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM),
a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global
leader and innovator in semiconductor
solutions for wired and wireless
communications. Broadcom® products
seamlessly deliver voice, video, data, and
multimedia connectivity in the home,
office, and mobile environments. With the
industry's broadest portfolio of state-ofthe-art system-on-a-chip and embedded
software solutions, Broadcom is changing
the world by Connecting everything®. For
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www.broadcom.com.
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August 3, 2012 • 2CS95720-PB04-R