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BCM56503 Brief ® 24-PORT GbE MULTILAYER SWITCH WITH THREE 10-GbE/ HiGig+™ PORTS SUMMARY OF BENEFITS FEATURES • 24 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports supporting both copper and fiber connections • Fifth generation of StrataSwitch® and StrataXGS® product line • Highly scalable BroadScale™ processor evolved from five generations of switching experience provides rich features, scalability, and future-proof solutions. • Optimized for secure switching and convergence of applications • Three 12 Gbps or 10 Gbps HiGig+™ port uplink interfaces and services in the networks • Three 10-GbE switching ports, CX4 support • System vendors can build scalable high-performance, high-port density GbE LAN switches in several form factors. • Line-rate switching for all packet sizes and conditions • On-chip data packet memory and table memory • Multiple CoS and low latency enable the support of VoIP and other voice, video, and data applications. • IPv6 routing and tunneling • Advanced Fast Filter Processor (FFP) ContentAware™ classification • Advanced security features in hardware • 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 • Port-trunking and mirroring supported across stack faster time-to-market. • Advanced packet flow control • Small package and low power enable cost-effective and high- • Head-of-line blocking prevention • Backpressure support performance system design. • Eight Quality of Service (QoS) queues per port with hierarchical minimum/maximum shaping per Class of Service (CoS) per queue per port • Standard compliant 802.1ad provider bridging 24-Port GbE Multilayer Switch HiGig+/10 GbE HiGig+/10 GbE L2/IPv4/IPv6 ContentAware FFP HiGig+/10 GbE Packet Buffer MMU Security PCI 10/100/1000 MACs 24 x GbE OVERVIEW BCM56503 BCM56503 BCM5836P BCM56503 BCM56503 BCM5836P BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R BCM5464R 48 10/100/1000 + Two 10 GbE Stand-Alone 48 10/100/1000 + Two HiGig+ Stackable The BCM56503 is the fifth generation of the highly integrated and costeffective StrataSwitch and StrataXGS product line. The BCM56503 is a single-chip solution with 24 GbE ports and three 10-GbE/HiGig+ uplink ports. The ContentAware classification feature of the StrataSwitch and StrataXGS has been further enhanced in the BCM56503 with unmatched flexibility and programmability. The ContentAware engine can be used for applications such as policy-based routing, access control list, dynamic adaptation to changes in virus threats, and so on. The BCM56503 incorporates 24 GbE ports that can operate at 10/100/1000 Mbps. The uplink ports can operate in two modes: 10-GbE switching mode and HiGig+ uplink mode. The integrated 10-GbE switching ports are CX-4-compliant XAUI interfaces. The HiGig+ uplink interface is used to connect to other StrataXGS devices in a larger stacking system or to the BCM5675/BCM5676 Switch Fabric via a backplane in a multislot redundant chassis system. The BCM56503 has built-in security functions for highly secure enterprise networks including BroadSAFETM. Utilizing hardware-based identity management and authentication coupled with key management software that directs and manages clients, BroadSAFE Security provides exceptionally strong network security without affecting network performance. With high integration and high port density, the BCM56503 family is ideal for enterprise applications in stand-alone, stackable, and chassis configurations applicable in the edge, aggregation, and core areas of the enterprise. The BCM56503 is also ideal for embedded switch applications such as the blade server switch, ATCA chassis, IPDSLAM, 3G wireless base station, and others. The BCM56503 integrates sophisticated metering, statistics, and traffic management features, optimizing the QoS in the Enterprise networks for voice, video, and data convergence. The BCM56503 also provides rateadjustable, hardware-based sFlow® implementation and flexible multiple-session remote port-mirroring functionality for efficient network management. The BCM56503 integrates sophisticated advanced L3 switching features for cost-effective highly manageable enterprise networks. The BCM56503 performs IPv6 routing and transition services in hardware, allowing IT managers to deploy L3 switches that are future-proof, highly manageable L3 networks that enable cost-effective transition from IPv4 to IPv6. The BCM56503 switch supports a Broadcom Serial Control (BSC) controller for communicating with external devices such as serial EEPROM, flash PROM memories, and parallel port devices. The BCM56503 also supports a serial interface for the MII management of physical layer devices. The BCM56503 switch interfaces to a host CPU via a 32-bit PCI bus running at up to 66 MHz. Bus mastering and advanced DMA are supported for efficient exchange of packet data between CPU memory and the BCM56503 switch. Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, the Connecting everything logo, StrataSwitch®, StrataXGS®, ContentAware™, HiGig+™, BroadScale™, and BroadSAFE™ are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. ® BROADCOM CORPORATION 5300 California Avenue Irvine, California 92617 © 2009 by BROADCOM CORPORATION. All rights reserved. 56503-PB03-R 09/23/09 Phone: 949-926-5000 Fax: 949-926-5203 E-mail: info@broadcom.com Web: www.broadcom.com