BCM56502

24Port GbE MULTILAYER SWITCH WITH TWO 10 GbE/HiGig+™ PORTS

The is the fifth generation of the highly-integrated and cost effective StrataSwitch and StrataXGS product line and is a single-chip solution with 24 GbE ports and two 10 GbE/HiGig+ uplink ports.

The BCM56502 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.

FEATURES

• 24 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports supporting both copper and fiber connections

• Fifth generation of StrataSwitch® and StrataXGS® product line

• Two 12 Gbps or 10 Gbps HiGig+™ port uplink interfaces

• Two 10 GbE switching ports, CX4 support

• Line-rate switching for all packet sizes and conditions

• On-chip data packet memory and table memory

• IPv6 routing and tunneling

• Advanced Fast Filter Processor FFP ContentAware™ classification

• Advanced security features in hardware

• Port trunking and mirroring supported across stack

• Advanced packet flow control:

• Head-of-line blocking prevention

• Backpressure support

• Eight QoS queues per port with hierarchical minimum/maximum shaping per Class of Service CoS per queue per port

• Standard compliant IEEE 802.1ad provider bridging