BCM5696 ® MULTILAYER 12-PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH SUMMARY OF BENEFITS FEATURES • 12 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet ports with copper or fibre • Enables modular, high-performance GbE switch designs connectivity • All address tables and buffer memory fully integrated on-chip • Support for jumbo frames of up to 9 KB in size • Facilitates seamless integration of voice, video, and data traffic through low-latency and advanced QoS • Enables lower system design cost and board space utilization • Advanced full-duplex end-to-end flow and congestion control • • • through superior integration and compact form factor with head-of-line blocking prevention ContentAware™ packet filtering and classification per-port • Wirespeed operation • Support for 802.1p, TOS/DiffServ, policing, shaping, marking, and remarking • Rate control of broadcast, unknown multicast and unicast packets • Eight queues per port Support for double 802.1q VLAN tagging and VLAN translation Hardware-based IP multicast routing and forwarding • Support for replication Equal and weighted cost multipath routing for load balancing • Offers quicker time-to-market and software reuse through backward compatibility with Broadcom switch software API TARGET APPLICATIONS • High-performance standalone GbE switch solutions for distribution and wiring closet of enterprise networks and remote branches • Embedded GbE switch solutions for blade server applications • • Advanced diagnostic features including JTAG boundary scan within space-constrained data centers • Highly reliable GbE switch solutions for telecom applications and BIST functionality • Low power consumption of 4.65W in a 480-pin PBGA package • Pin-to-pin compatible with the BCM5691 in central offices 12-port Multilayer Gigabit Ethernet Switch Layer 3 On-Chip Tables ARL L3 Packet Buffer MMU ContentAware™ FFP 1-Gbps SerDes with SGMII Support 10/100/1000 MAC 12 x GbE PCI Internal Memory for Nonblocking Performance PCI 32/66 Interface I2C Interface