Broadcom Net Xtreme BCM5720-2P Dual-Port Ethernet Server Adapter

Leveraging long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet, Broadcom now offers the Net Xtreme BCM5720-2P Ethernet Server Adapter, providing
the highest levels of performance, efficiency, and scalability for the enterprise data center.

Designed for today's enterprise and data center environments, the Broadcom BCM5720-2P Ethernet Server adapter is the ideal solution for
multicore servers, delivering full line-rate through put across all ports. The adapter utilizes Broadcom's field-proven dual-port BCM5720-2P integrated controller device to deliver lower power consumption and Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), reducing IT operation costs. The BCM5720-2P is
compatible with x86 and x64 servers utilizing the PCIe v1.x and v2.x interfaces.

Increasing application workloads are placing greater demands on enterprise networks, and the BCM5720-2P-based dual-port 1GbE Server
Adapter is the solution of choice for such environments, providing a reliable, high performance, energy-efficient 1GbE connectivity solution

Features

• Dual-port 1GbE adapter for rack and tower servers
• x1 PCI Express (PCIe) v2.0 (5 GT/s) support
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• I/O Virtualization supported with 17 receive
queues and 16 transmit queues per port
• Full line-rate performance across all ports
• Broad OS and hypervisor support
• Preboot execution Environment (PXE) support
• Support for VMware Net Queue and Microsoft VMQ
• Link aggregation and automatic load-balancing
•Wake-on-LAN support
• MSI and MSI-X support
• IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
• TCP, UDP, and IP checksum offloads
• Large Send Offload (LSO)
• TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
• Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
• VLAN support with VLAN tagging

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