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.
| System requirements |
| Windows operating systems supported | Yes |
| Linux operating systems supported | Yes |
| Other operating systems supported | Yes |
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| Ports & interfaces |
| Connectivity technology | Wired |
| Host interface | PCI Express |
| Interface | Ethernet |
| Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports | 2 |
| PCI version | 2.0 |
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| Network |
| Maximum data transfer rate | 1000 Mbit/s |
| Networking standards | IEEE 802.1as, IEEE 802.3ap, IEEE 802.3az |
| Ethernet LAN | Yes |
| Ethernet interface type | Gigabit Ethernet |
| Ethernet LAN data rates | 100,1000 Mbit/s |
| Wake-on-LAN ready | Yes |
| LAN controller | Broadcom BCM5720 |
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| Design |
| Internal | Yes |
| Component for | Server |
| Product colour | Green |
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| Logistics data |
| Harmonized System (HS) code | 85176990 |
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