BCM56960A0KFSBG BROADCOM Ethernet

BCM56960A0KFSBG Overview

Broadcom's BCM56960 Series, also known as the StrataXGS® Tomahawk switch series, can help build highly scalable, feature-rich, top-of-rack (ToR), blade or aggregation switches to enable cloud-scale networking. StrataXGS Tomahawk is the first series of switches to offer 25 Gb/s SerDes in support of 25/50/100GbE. It provides a total switching capacity of 3.2 Tb/s ranging from 32 ports of 100 GbE to 128 ports of 25 GbE, with the flexibility to configure port type and speed to suit any high-performance networking application.

The StrataXGS Tomahawk switch series includes BroadView™ instrumentation, which provides operators the telemetry to troubleshoot large-scale networks, apply controls for optimal performance, respond to potential problems before they happen and drive down OPEX. This includes extensive application flow and debug statistics, link health and utilization monitors, streaming network congestion detection and packet-tracing capabilities.

Features

Support for up to 32 × 100 GbE, 64 × 40/50 GbE or even 128 × 25 GbE ports with an aggregate switching bandwidth of 3.2 Tb/sIntegrated low-power 25Ghz SerDesAuthoritative support for 25G and 50G Ethernet Consortium specificationConfigurable pipeline latency enabling sub-400 ns port-to-port operationSupports high-performance storage/RDMAprotocols including RoCEand RoCEv2BroadView instrumentation provides switch- and network-level telemetryHigh-density FleXGS™ flow processing for configurable forwarding/match/action capabilitiesOpenFlow 1.3+ support using Broadcom OF-DPA™Comprehensive overlay and tunneling support including VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, SPBFlexible policy enforcement for existing and new virtualization protocolsEnhanced Smart-Hash™ load-balancing modes for leaf-spine congestion avoidanceIntegrated Smart-Buffer™ technology with 5x greater performance vs. static bufferingSingle-chip and multichip HiGig™ solutions for top-of-rack and scalable chassis applications