BOARDCOM BCM5696

BCM5696
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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
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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
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• 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