BOARDCOM BCM5696B0IPBG

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
OVERVIEW
Functional Design of BCM5696-Based 20-Port GbE Switch
SDRAM
PCI
CPU
BCM5696
BCM5696
BCM5464
BCM5464
10 x GbE
10 x GbE
General Description
The BCM5696 is an integral component of the highly modular switch
architecture. Each port supports 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet with
copper or fibre physical interfaces. The BCM5696 has a fully integrated
SerDes with an SGMII interface on the GbE ports. The flexibility and
modularity of the BCM5696 switch architecture makes it suitable for a
wide range of applications including fixed, blade server, and metro
Ethernet switching.
Advanced QoS
The highly flexible ContentAware packet filtering and classification
engine in the BCM5696 switch family provides a common application
platform across the entire StrataXGS™ product line. It supports
ToS/DiffServ, rate limiting, policing, shaping, marking, and remarking.
These features enable cutting-edge voice and video applications based
on the Internet Protocol.
Multi-Service Intelligence
Superior scalability, high availability, and performance enable network
designers to meet the growing needs of mission-critical enterprise
applications. Support of multi-service intelligence in the form of
FLASH
integrated security (IEEE 802.1x), wirespeed access control lists, policybased rate limiting, IP Multicast replication, IPv6 awareness, and
advanced Layer 3 functionality ensures robust network design.
New metro Ethernet features extend the security boundary beyond the
enterprise networks into service provider networks with support for
double VLAN tagging (IEEE 802.1Q) and VLAN translation.
Superior Performance
The BCM5696 delivers wirespeed switching performance across all
ports simultaneously. The BCM5696 also introduces very low switching
latency, enabling very high-quality transmission of voice, video, and
data traffic. The BCM5696 supports advanced packet flow control such
as head-of-line blocking prevention and IEEE 802.3x-compatible fullduplex control.
Additional Information
Production-ready reference design kits enable faster time-to-market for
system vendors and come with extensive support documentation and
software. Please contact your local sales representative for more
information.
Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, and StrataXGS™ are trademarks of Broadcom
Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks
mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
®
BROADCOM CORPORATION
16215 Alton Parkway, P.O. Box 57013
Irvine, California 92619-7013
© 2004 by BROADCOM CORPORATION. All rights reserved.
5696-PB00-R
04/26/04
Phone: 949-450-8700
Fax: 949-450-8710
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.broadcom.com