Ethernet Switch 48-Port 180Gbps

The Broadcom BCM56540 is a high-bandwidth 1 GbE/10 GbE/40 GbE multilayer Ethernet switch designed for access and aggregation deployments. The BCM56540 is an advanced switch that delivers 180 Gbps of line-rate performance.Built on the proven StrataXGS architecture, the BCM56540 brings groundbreaking innovations into the metro aggregation layer. With the Broadcom AppAware engine, the BCM56540 enables ubiquitous traffic visualization and application-based flow, QoS, and management capabilities cost-effectively. Integrating Broadcom"s industry-leading SerDes technology, the BCM56540 provides standardbased 40 GbE and 10 GbE support. This is ideal for satisfying increasing bandwidth and speed demands.

• Highly efficient policy creation and management
• Superior burst management
• Comprehensive hardware OAM support reduces host CPU burden
• Dedicated meters and counters provide effective SLA guarantee
• RFC3917 IPFIX support for Enterprise flow management and statistics
• Unified wireless/wireline switching
• Standard-based 40 GbE and 10 GbE support
• Flexible unified forwarding table
• CAPWAP tunnel port for unified wired/wireless switching
• Broadcom AppAware flow recognition and QoS
• IFPIX and sFlow
• Dynamic load balancing over LAG, ECMP and HiGig™
• Network HiGig support
• XGS™ Smart Buffer support
• Hardware OAM support for IEEE 802.1ag CFM and Y.1731
• Dedicated hierarchical meters and counters
• Layer 1 clock recovery
• Layer 2 network time synchronization and clock recovery
• 128-bit IPv6 LPM support
• Multistage ContentAware™ engine
• Energy Efficient Ethernet™ (IEEE 802.3az)
• Packet-based time synchronization (IEEE 1588 and IEEE 802.1AS) with one-step and two-step timestamping support
• Synchronous Ethernet layer 1 clock recovery
• On-chip packet buffer memory with dynamic buffer management for maximum burst absorption
• Enhanced congestion management capabilities
  • Destination module VOQ
  • Dynamic load balancing over HiGig and LAG
• Scheduling algorithms
  • Strict Priority
  • Round Robin
  • Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
  • Weighted Deficit Round Robin (WDRR)
• Full QoS support
  • Service aware flow control (SAFC)
  • Weighted RED