Broadcom® FS-BCM957412A4120AC Ethernet Network Interface Card, P210P 10GbE Dual-port SFP+, PCIe 3.0 x 8, Tall & Short Bracket

The Broadcom® FS-BCM957412A4120AC is a dual-port 10 Gb/s, PCI-Express 3.0 x8 Network Interface Card that supports SFP+ optical modules and copper direct-attach cable.

The card uses the Broadcom FS-BCM57412 10GbE MAC controller with the integrated dual-channel 10GbE SFI transceiver. It supports RoCE, SDN, and NFV for efficient network management.

Based on Broadcom's scalable FS-BCM57412 10GbE MAC controller architecture, the P210P 2x10G 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: BCM57412
  
• Data Rate Per Port: 10/1GbE
  
• System Interface Type: PCIe 3.0 x 8
  
• Connector Type: SFP+
  
• Bracket Height: Full Height and Low Profile
  
• RoCE: Yes
  
• SR-IOV: Yes
  
• TSO: Yes
  
• NVGRE: Yes
  
• VXLAN: Yes
  
• DPDK: Yes
  
• NPAR: Yes
  
• NVMe-oF: Yes
  
• Geneve: 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
• Controller: BCM57412
• Ports: Dual-Port SFP+
• Supported Ethernet Speeds: 10/1GbE
• Systems Interface Type: PCIe 3.0x 8(8.0 GT/s)
• RoCEv2: YES
• TruFlow™: YES
• TruManage™: YES
• SR-IOV: YES

Product Spotlights

Networking and Virtualization

• RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE Encap/Decap
• Advanced Congestion
• AvoidanceMulti-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)

Manageability and Platform Security

• Interrupt Coalescing
• ISCSI Boot
• Tunnel-aware Stateless Offloads
• SMBus 2.0
• MCTP over SMBus
• PCle-based UART and KCS

Connectivity Solutions

Broadcom BCM57412 Maximizes Network Performance
Based on the successful NetXtreme E-Series architecture, the BCM57412 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.