Broadcom® BCM957416A4160C Ethernet Network Interface Card, P210TP 10GbE Dual-port RJ45, PCIe 3.0 x 8, Tall & Short Bracket

The Broadcom® BCM957416A4160C is a dual-port 10GBASE-T, PCI-Express 3.0 x8 Network Interface Card that supports a dual-port 10GBASE-T media interface that is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.3an standard.

The card uses the Broadcom BCM57416 Ethernet controller with the integrated dual-channel 10GBASE-T transceiver. It supports RoCE, SDN, and NFV for efficient network management.

Based on Broadcom’s scalable 10/25/50/100/200G Ethernet controller architecture, the P210TP 2x10GBASE-T PCIe NIC is designed to build highly scalable, feature-rich networking solutions in servers for enterprise and cloud-scale networking and storage applications, including high-performance computing, telco, machine learning, storage disaggregation, and data analytics.

Specifications

• Ports: Dual
  
• ASIC: BCM57416
  
• Data Rate Per Port: 10/1GbE
  
• System Interface Type: PCIe 3.0 x 8
  
• Connector Type: RJ45
  
• Bracket Height: Full Height and Low Profile
  
• ROCE: Yes
  
• SR-IOV: Yes
  
• NVGER: Yes
  
• GENEVE: Yes
  
• VXLAN: Yes
  
• DPDK: Yes
  
• NPAR: Yes
  
• NVMe-oF: Yes
  
• TSO: Yes
  
• OS Support: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and so on
  
• Operating Temperature: 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
  
• Storage Temperature: -40 to 70 °C (-40 to 158 °F)

Product Highlights

• TruFlow™ Engine Boosts VM Density and Speeds up vSwitch Processing
  
• End-to-end System Anticipates and Prevents Congestion Proactively
  
• Supports RoCE, SDN, NFV, and Advanced Networking Virtualization
  
• TruManage™ Boosts Server Manageability and Security for Data Centers
  
• Secure NIC with Broadcom’s BroadSAFE® for Top Platform Security

Product Spotlights

Networking and Virtualization

• RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE Encap/Decap
• Advanced Congestion Avoidance
• Multi-Queue, NetQueue, and VMQ
• Single Root I/O Virtualization
• Network Boot-PXE, UEFI
• Wake-on-LAN

Stateless Offloads and Flow Processing

• IP/TCP/UDP Checksum Offload
• TCP Segmentation Offload
• Receive-side Scaling (RSS)
• Transmit-side Scaling (TSS)
• Large Send Offload (LSO)
• Large Receive Offload (LRO)
• PFC, ETS, QCN, DCBx

Manageability and Platform Security

• Interrupt Coalescing
• ISCSI Boot
• Tunnel-aware Stateless Offloads
• SMBus 2.0
• MCTP over SMBus
• Function Level Reset (FLR)
• MSI and MSI-X

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Broadcom BCM57416 Maximizes Network Performance
Based on the successful NetXtreme E-Series architecture, the BCM57416 combines high-bandwidth capability with optimized hardware acceleration to enhance network performance and server efficiency.

RDMA Technology Empowers Enterprise Data Centers and HPC
RDMA allows real CPU offloads and kernel bypass, and, as such, RDMA-based applications provide better utilization of network hardware resources while increasing speed and lowering link latencies.

Seamless Compatibility With Mainstream Servers
Broadcom Ethernet adapter cards are rigorously tested to ensure that support all of the mainstream devices on the market, such as Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Cisco servers, etc., which improves reliability and deployment flexibility.

Supporting All Major OS Distributions
Broadcom NICs offer comprehensive support for major operating systems like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Oracle Solaris, and so on, ensuring seamless compatibility and robust security for various applications.