48-Port GbE + 10-Port 10-GbE L2/L3 Switch with BCM56801, BCM56701, and BCM56502

The BCM56801 network switch is a high-density, 10-Gigabit Ethernet switching chip solution with 18 ports. Ten ports can support 10-GbE or 1-GbE. The other eight ports can flexibly support HiGig2/HiGig+/HiGig/10-GbE/1-GbE. Additionally, the BCM56801 integrates all the SerDes required to interface to applicable copper and fiber physical interfaces.

FEATURES
• Ten 10-GbE/1-GbE ports and eight HiGig2™/HiGig™+/HiGig™/ 10-GbE/1-GbE ports
• Based on StrataXGS™ field-proven, robust architecture
• Integrated high-performance SerDes
    • Integrated XAUI™ SerDes for all 18 ports
    • Uses single SerDes lane per port at GbE speeds
• 196 Gbps switching capacity at line rate
• Support for eight classes of service (CoS) plus two additional classes for Flow Control and system management per port
• Support for deficit round robin, weighted round robin and strict priority scheduling
• Support for a cut-through switching mode
• Port trunking and remote mirroring support
• Fully integrated data and address memory on a single chip
• Advanced packet flow control
    • Head of line blocking prevention
    • Full-duplex flow control (802.3x)
• ContentAware™ network processing per port
    • Line rate multifield packet classification
    • Supports IEEE 802.1p, TOS/DiffServ, rate limiting, policing, priority tagging, and remapping
    • Extended security and ACL filtering
• Full IPv6 routing support
• Enhanced security and management capabilities
• Low power consumption

APPLICATIONS
• Embedded switch in next-generation 10 GbE Blade Servers
• 10GbE/1GbE switching engine in Advanced TCA Chassis platforms
• Multilayer switch in high-density 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches