- 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 NetQueue 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
- Jumbo frame support for frames larger than 1500 Bytes
- Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) management application
- iSCSI remote boot support
Leveraging long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet, Broadcom now offers the NetXtreme 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 throughput 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, highperformance, energy-efficient 1GbE connectivity solution.