BCM56500 ® 24-PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET MULTILAYER SWITCH FEATURES SUMMARY OF BENEFITS • 24 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports supporting both copper • Highly scalable BroadScale™ architecture evolved from five and fiber connections • Fifth generation of StrataSwitch® and StrataXGS® product line • Line-rate switching for all packet sizes and conditions • On-chip data packet memory and table memory • IPv6 routing and tunneling • Advanced Fast Filter Processor (FFP) ContentAware™ • • • classification • Advanced security features in hardware • Port-trunking and mirroring supported across stack • • Advanced packet flow control: • • Head-of-line blocking prevention • Back pressure support • Eight QoS queues per port with hierarchical minimum/ maximum shaping per Class of Service (CoS) per queue per port • Standard compliant 802.1ad provider bridging • generations of switching experience provides rich features, scalability, and future proof solutions. Optimized for secure-switching and convergence of applications and services in the networks. System vendors can build scalable high-performance, high-port density GbE LAN switches in several form factors. Multiple CoS and low latency enable the support of VoIP and other voice, video, and data applications. Built-in high-speed serial interfaces with Broadcom-unique SerDes technology ease and accelerate system design, while reducing cost and conserving board space. Broadcom switch API compatibility enables software reuse and faster time-to-market. Small package and low power enables cost-effective and highperformance system design. 24-Port GbE Multilayer Switch L2/IPv4/IPv6 ContentAwareFFP Packet Buffer MMU Security 10/100/1000MACs PCI OVERVIEW BCM5464 BCM5836P BCM5836P BCM56500 nxSGMII BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R DSL BladeRunner BCM5464R BCM56500 BCM5464R DSL BladeRunner DSL BladeRunner BCM5464R 24-Port 10/100/1000 Standalone Switch The BCM56500 is the fifth generation of the highly-integrated and costeffective StrataSwitch and StrataXGS product line in a single-chip solution with 24-GbE ports. The BCM56500 incorporates 24-GbE ports that can operate 10/100/1000 Mbps. With high-integration and high-port density, the BCM56500 family is ideal for Enterprise applications in standalone, stackable, and chassis configurations, applicable in the edge, aggregation, and core areas of the Enterprise. The BCM56500 is also ideal for embedded switch applications like Blade Server Switch, ATCA chassis, IPDSLAM, 3G Wireless Base Station, and others. The BCM56500 integrates sophisticated advanced L3 switching features for cost-effective highly manageable enterprise networks. The BCM56500 performs IPv6 routing and transition services in hardware, allowing IT managers to deploy L3 switches that are future-proof, highly manageable L3 networks to enable cost-effective transition from IPv4 to IPv6. The ContentAware classification feature of the StrataSwitch and StrataXGS has been further enhanced in the BCM56500 with unmatched flexibility and programability. The ContentAware engine can be used for applications such as policy-based routing, access control list, dynamic adaptation to changes in virus threats, and so on. 24 x GbE IPSDLAM with GbE Backplane and Uplinks The BCM56500 has built-in security functions for highly-secure enterprise networks including BroadSAFE™. utilizing hardware-based identity management and authentication coupled with key management software that directs and manages clients, BroadSAFE security provides exceptionally strong network security without impacting network performance. The BCM56500 integrates sophisticated metering, statistics, and traffic management features, optimizing the QoS in the enterprise networks for voice, video, and data convergence. The BCM56500 also provides rateadjustable, hardware-based sFlow implementation and flexible multiplesession remote port-mirroring functionality for efficient network management. The BCM56500 switch supports an I2C controller for communicating with external devices such as serial EEPROM, flash PROM memories, and parallel port devices. It also supports a serial interface for the MII management of physical layer devices. The BCM56500 switch interfaces to a host CPU via a 32-bit PCI bus running at up to 66 MHz. Bus mastering and advanced DMA is supported for efficient exchange of packet data between CPU memory and the BCM56500 switch. Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, and the Connecting everything logo are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/ or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. ® BROADCOM CORPORATION 16215 Alton Parkway, P.O. Box 57013 Irvine, California 92619-7013 © 2006 by BROADCOM CORPORATION. All rights reserved. 56500-PB02-R 03/20/06 Phone: 949-450-8700 Fax: 949-450-8710 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.broadcom.com