Features
• 128 Serial 10G ports, based on Broadcom's
Warpcore™ SerDes technology, for maximum
port density per RU.
• Standards-compliant 10GbE/40GbE switch
with support for up to 32 ports of 40GbE or up
to 104 logical ports of 1GbE.
• Power-efficient, fully integrated
switching architecture.
• Low pin-to-pin latency in
Cut-Through and Store-and-Forward
Modes.
• Full IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and
multicast routing support.
• Smart-NV technology featuring
support for VMware VxLAN,
Microsoft NVGRE overlays, 802.1Qbg
Edge Virtual Bridging, 802.1BR
Bridge Port extension, and
per-virtual machine traffic shaping.
• SmartTable technology to
maximize L2 and L3 forwarding
database capacities for maximum
deployment flexibility.
• Advanced SmartHash engine for
optimal and resilient load
distribution across HiGig™, LAG, and
ECMP trunk groups.
• Integrated SmartBuffer supporting
lossless performance guarantees and
high-burst absorption using innovative
traffic load awareness and
dynamic allocation schemes.
• ContentAware™ Engine for scalable,
high-density ingress and egress
packet classification.
• Data Center Bridging support: PFC,
QCN, ETS.
• Dedicated FCoE forwarding engine
enabling FC-BB-5 and FC-BB-6
deployment models.
• Tagged and tagless virtual machine
switching support for leading server
and server virtualization switching
vendors.
• Hardware-based tunneling services
including MPLS, VPLS, ISATAP,
MAC-in-MAC, TRILL, SPB, and Q-in-Q.
• Energy Efficient Ethernet support
including customizable, low-power
idle (LPI) control policies.
• Per-port configurable
oversubscription to reduce peak
power.
• Integrated 1588v2 processor for
Precision Time Protocol and IEEE
802.1AS for Timing and
Synchronization.