BCM56510
®
24-PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET MULTILAYER SWITCH
FEATURES
SUMMARY OF BENEFITS
• Fifth generation of StrataSwitch® and StrataXGS® product line
• 24 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports supporting SGMII and
SerDes interfaces for both copper and fiber connections
• The BCM56510 device, is a powerful, highly-integrated member
of the scalable StrataXGS III product family
• Line-rate switching for all packet sizes and conditions
• On-chip data packet memory and table memory
• IPv6 routing and tunneling
• Advanced ContentAware™ classification Filtering Processors
(FP)
• Advanced security features in hardware
• Port-trunking and mirroring supported across stack
• Advanced packet flow control:
• Head-of-line blocking prevention
• Back pressure support
• Eight QoS queues per port with hierarchical minimum/
maximum shaping per Classes of Service (CoS) per queue
per port
• Standard compliant 802.1ad provider bridging
• Highly scalable BroadScale™ architecture evolved from five
generations of switching experience provides rich features,
scalability, and future proof solutions.
• Optimized for secure switching and convergence of wired and
wireless applications and services in networks
• System vendors can build scalable high-performance, high-port
density GbE LAN switches in several form factors.
• Multiple CoS and low latency enable the support of VoIP and
triple play services.
• Built-in high-speed serial interfaces with Broadcom-unique
SerDes technology ease and accelerate system design, while
reducing cost and conserving board space.
• Broadcom switch API compatibility enables software reuse and
faster time-to-market.
• Small package and low power enables cost-effective and high-
performance system design.
24-Port Gigabit Ethernet Multilayer Switch
L2/IPv4/IPv6
ContentAwareFP
Packet Buffer MMU
Security
PCI
10/100/1000MACs