Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57508 - Network adapter - OCP 3.0 - 100 Gigabit QSFP56 x 2 - for ThinkSystem SR630 V3; SR645 V3; SR650 V3; SR655 V3; SR665 V3; SR675 V3; SR850 V3; SR860 V3
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Robust connectivity
The Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57508 network adapter ensures high-speed wired connectivity with two 100 Gigabit QSFP56 ports, facilitating rapid data transfer rates of up to 100 Gbps. This feature is crucial for environments demanding high bandwidth and seamless data transmission.
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Enhanced performance
Featuring advanced technologies such as Accelerated Receive Flow Steering (RFS), Large Send Offload (LSO), and Receive Side Scaling (RSS), the adapter optimizes data flow across networks. This results in improved efficiency and reduced latency, enhancing overall system performance.
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Comprehensive support
Supporting a wide range of protocols and standards including IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, and UDP, along with IEEE standards like 802.1Qau and 802.3ad (LACP), the Broadcom 57508 is designed for versatile network environments. Its compliance with numerous safety and regulatory standards ensures reliability and safety in diverse operational conditions.
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Advanced networking features
The adapter offers a suite of features to enhance network virtualization and management, such as Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), and Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA). These capabilities allow for efficient network segmentation and improved data center agility.
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Reliable operation
Designed to operate within a wide range of temperatures (0°C to 55°C) and humidity (5 - 95% non-condensing), the Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57508 network adapter ensures consistent performance in various environmental conditions, making it a reliable choice for critical network infrastructure.
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57508 100GbE QSFP56 Ethernet adapters are a high-performance low-power 100 Gb Ethernet adapter with a PCIe 4.0 host interface that offers TruFlow intelligent flow processing and supports advanced networking technologies such as VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, RoCE, SDN and NFV, to facilitate the management of data networks and to enable service provider solutions.
- 2x 100GbE network connectivity for high availability features eliminating throughput bottlenecks for data-intensive applications
- Industry's best performing and longest-reach 50G PAM-4/25G NRZ SerDes dramatically lowering TCO by reducing cable costs by 50% and doubling port density
- PCIe 4.0 x16 support maximizing the full potential of servers compliant with the PCI Express 4.0 specification, providing seamless interoperability and doubling server throughput while saving PCIe lanes
- Third generation Broadcom TruFlow engine for intelligent flow processing to increase server VM density and accelerate vSwitch processing of traffic flows with data path Acceleration
- RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), allows Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) traffic to be communicated over Converged Ethernet using DCB, GPU Compute over RoCE enables scalable GPU clusters up to hundreds of nodes using Ethernet for HPC, AI, and ML applications
- Broadcom's Smart Congestion Control provides consistent and predictable performance for real world workloads plus scaling for heavily loaded network traffic making it ideal for clients looking for deterministic low latency
- Broadcom adapters are the industry's most secure PCIe Ethernet controller solution, leveraging Broadcom's BroadSAFE technology to provide unparalleled platform security via Silicon Root of Trust (RoT)
- Broadcom's TruManage enhances server manageability, network management, and security for data center deployments, TruManage supports widely deployed management standards including DMTF NC-SI, MCTP, PLDM, and SPDM specifications
- Support for SR-IOV which bypasses the hypervisor, reducing the latency by removing data copies and context switches between VM address space and hypervisor address space, when transmitting or receiving data over the network
- Support for Data Center Bridging (DCB), including IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority based Flow Control (PFC) and 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), DCB technology allows the device to provide lossless data delivery, prioritize low latency traffic, and share bandwidth among data center physical links
- In-band Network Telemetry features provide end-to-end real-time monitoring capability, enabling data center operators to fine tune their networks for maximum performance
