FS Introduces High-Performance Broadcom® NICs for Advanced Data Centers and Enterprise Networks

FS has recently announced its latest portfolio of highly-scalable, high-performance original Broadcom Ethernet adapters. These latest products including 7 Broadcom® NICs supporting the full range of speeds and feeds, from 10G to 400G in the standard half-height half-length form factor, offer an enhanced, open, standards-based Ethernet NIC and switching solution to resolve connectivity bottlenecks as bandwidth and cluster sizes grow rapidly in data centers.

Broadcom’s Ethernet network controller delivers best-in-class performance and hardware acceleration and offload capabilities that result in higher throughput, higher CPU efficiency, and lower workload latency for TCP/IP as well as RoCE traffic. Broadcom PCIe Ethernet NIC adapters utilize market-leading 50/100G PAM-4, 10/25G NRZ, and PCIe 5.0/4.0 SerDes technology, ensuring seamless interoperability with Broadcom’s market-leading Top-of-Rack switch and PCIe Express switch solutions which also use the same SerDes technology.

Broadcom® NICs are supported with a full suite of drivers for all major operating system distributions and versions, build upon the success of the widely deployed Broadcom architecture by combining a high-bandwidth Ethernet controller with a unique set of highly optimized hardware acceleration engines to enhance network performance and improve server efficiency.

10G/25G/100G NICs for Enterprise Networks, Data Centers

Driven by the growing need for higher server bandwidth and storage capacity to support new and emerging applications, enterprises, telcos and cloud providers are modernizing their data centers by adopting latest networking technologies, such as server virtualization and NVMe-oF™. The resulting expansion in data volumes increases server-to-server traffic and CPU loads for networking tasks, this series of Broadcom® network cards offers multiple speed options including 10G, 25G, and 100G.

Key Features:

• NIC partitioning supporting 16 physical functions (PFs)

• TruFlow™ engine for intelligent flow processing to increase server VM density and accelerate vSwitch processing

• Industry’s most secure PCIe NIC solution leveraging Broadcom’s BroadSAFE® technology to provide unparalleled platform security via Silicon Root of Trust

• New end-to-end congestion avoidance and management to anticipate and eliminate congestion before it happens

• Support for advanced networking technologies including RoCE, SDN, NFV and virtualization

• TruManage™ enhances server manageability and security for data center deployments

Applications

• NIC partitioning supporting 16 physical functions (PFs)

• Cloud and Web2.0 data center servers

• Enterprise data center servers

• Private Cloud

• Multi-node container platforms

• NVMe storage disaggregation (NVMe-oF)

• Database servers

200G/400G NICs for ML, HPC, Hyperscale Data Centers

Broadcom® 200G and 400G NICs support fourth-generation, standards-based RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) with hardware-based congestion control. Broadcom’s RoCE congestion control delivers the lowest latency in real-life scenarios and dramatically reduces RoCE complexity deployment at scale.

Key Features:

• High-speed SerDes capable of 100/50G PAM4 and 25G NRZ

• Large-scale RoCE deployment is easily enabled with Switch Aware Rate Adjustment (SARA) and Drop Congestion Notification (DCN)

• Inline encryption engine enables CPU offload and improves application performance

• Peer memory direct for low-latency inter-GPU communication

• On-chip tunneling protocol processing for Geneve, VXLAN, and NVGRE

• Industry's most secure PCIe NIC solution provides unparalleled platform security via silicon Root-of-Trust

• TruFlow™ engine line-rate offload for virtual switch processing

• TruManage™ enhances server manageability and security for data center deployments

• NIC partitioning supporting 16 physical functions (PFs)

• Seamless integration with Broadcom's PCIe Gen 5 PCIe switches for GPU-based ML servers

Applications

• GPU scale-out networking

• Machine Learning (ML)

• High-Performance Computing (HPC)

• Cloud and enterprise data center servers

• Network Function Virtualization

• NVMe storage disaggregation

• Storage servers

Product List

All the Broadcom® NICs have been available at FS.com. For more information, please check out Broadcom® Ethernet NICs.