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General Description

The BCM5696 is an integral component of the highly modular switch

architecture. Each port supports 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet with

copper or fibre physical interfaces. The BCM5696 has a fully integrated

SerDes with an SGMII interface on the GbE ports. The flexibility and

modularity of the BCM5696 switch architecture makes it suitable for a

wide range of applications including fixed, blade server, and metro

Ethernet switching.

Advanced QoS

The highly flexible ContentAware packet filtering and classification

engine in the BCM5696 switch family provides a common application

platform across the entire StrataXGS™ product line. It supports

ToS/DiffServ, rate limiting, policing, shaping, marking, and remarking.

These features enable cutting-edge voice and video applications based

on the Internet Protocol.

Multi-Service Intelligence

Superior scalability, high availability, and performance enable network

designers to meet the growing needs of mission-critical enterprise

applications. Support of multi-service intelligence in the form of

integrated security (IEEE 802.1x), wirespeed access control lists, policy-

based rate limiting, IP Multicast replication, IPv6 awareness, and

advanced Layer 3 functionality ensures robust network design.

New metro Ethernet features extend the security boundary beyond the

enterprise networks into service provider networks with support for

double VLAN tagging (IEEE 802.1Q) and VLAN translation.

Superior Performance

The BCM5696 delivers wirespeed switching performance across all

ports simultaneously. The BCM5696 also introduces very low switching

latency, enabling very high-quality transmission of voice, video, and

data traffic. The BCM5696 supports advanced packet flow control such

as head-of-line blocking prevention and IEEE 802.3x-compatible full-

duplex control.

Additional Information

Production-ready reference design kits enable faster time-to-market for

system vendors and come with extensive support documentation and

software. Please contact your local sales representative for more

information.

CPU

FLASH

SDRAM

BCM5696

BCM5696

BCM5464

BCM5464

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10 x GbE

PCI

Functional Design of BCM5696-Based 20-Port GbE Switch