Introduction

Designed for today's enterprise and data center environments, Broadcom's NetXtreme® 1G Ethernet Adapters are the ideal solution for multicore servers, delivering full line-rate throughput across all ports.

The BCM5720 PCIe NIC is a 13th-generation 10/100/1000BASE-T and 10/100/1000BASE-X Ethernet LAN controller solution for high-performance server and networking applications. The host interface supports a separate PCI Express function for each LAN interface. The BCM5720 includes I/O Virtualization (IOV) features such as 17 receive and 16 transmit queues, and 17 MSI-X vectors with flexible vector-to-queue association. These IOV features enable the BCM5720 to support the VMWare® NetQueue and Microsoft® VMQ technologies.

The BCM5720 includes a comprehensive set of hardware features that the system may use to implement IEEE 1588 or IEEE 802.1AS-based time synchronization. These hardware features include a high-precision clock, timestamp registers for receive/transmit packets, and programmable trigger inputs and watchdog outputs.

Ports & interfaces

Connectivity technology

Wired

Host interface

PCI Express

Interface

Ethernet

Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports

2

PCI version

2.0

Network

Maximum data transfer rate

1000 Mbit/s

Networking standards

IEEE 802.1as,IEEE 802.3ap,IEEE 802.3az

Ethernet LAN

Y

Ethernet interface type

Gigabit Ethernet

Ethernet LAN data rates

100,1000 Mbit/s

Wake-on-LAN ready

Y

LAN controller

Broadcom BCM5720

Design

Component for

Server

Product colour

Green

Internal

Y

System requirements

Windows operating systems supported

Y

Linux operating systems supported

Y

Other operating systems supported

Y