Broadcom 5720 - Network adapter - LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) - Gigabit Ethernet x 2 - for PowerEdge R540
- Dual-port GbE NIC for Dell PowerEdge 12G rack and tower servers
- X1 PCI Express (PCIe) v2.0 (5 GT/s) support
- Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
- Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
- Full line-rate performance across all ports
- Broad OS and hypervisor support
- ISCSI remote boot support
- Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
- Support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ
- Link aggregation and automatic load-balancing
- Wake-on-LAN support
- MSI and MSI-X support
- IPv4 and v6 offloads
- Stateless offload
- TCP, UDP, and IP checksum
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
- VLAN support with VLAN tagging
- Jumbo frame support for frames larger than 1500 Bytes
Broadcom offers a dual-port 1 Gb Ethernet (GbE) Network Interface Card (NIC) for Dell PowerEdge 12G rack and tower servers. It leverages Broadcom's long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet, providing the highest levels of performance, efficiency, and scalability for the enterprise data center. Designed for today's enterprise, the Broadcom 5720-based NIC adapter is the ideal solution for multicore servers, delivering full line-rate throughput across all ports. The adapter utilizes Broadcom's dual-port BCM5720 integrated controller to deliver lower power consumption and Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), reducing IT operation costs. Increasing application workloads are placing greater demands on enterprise networks, and the Broadcom 5720-based dual-port 1GbE NIC is the solution of choice for such environments, providing a reliable, high-performance, energy-efficient 1GbE connectivity solution.
