Broadcom 5720 - Network adapter - PCIe - Gigabit Ethernet x 4 - for PowerEdge R620, R720, R720xd, R820, R920; PowerVault DL4000
- 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
The Broadcom 5720 Dual-Port Gigabit NIC from Dell is responsible for connecting your desktop and server to your network. It features dual triple-speed IEEE 802.3-compliant Media Access Controllers (MACs) with dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet transceivers (PHYs), PCI Express bus interface, and on-chip memory buffer in a single device.
