FEATURES
• Fifth generation of StrataSwitch® and StrataXGS® product line
• Four 12-Gbps or 10-Gbps HiGig+ port uplink interfaces
• The BCM56511 device, is a powerful, highly-integrated member of the scalable StrataXGS III product family.
• 2.5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 10 Gbps, or 12 Gbps HiGig+ stacking ports
• Four 10-GbE switching ports with CX4 support
• Line-rate switching for all packet sizes and conditions
• On-chip data packet memory and table memory
• IPv6 routing and tunneling
• Advanced ContentAware™ classification Filtering Processors(FP)
• Advanced security features in hardware
• Port-trunking and mirroring supported across stack
• Advanced packet flow control:
• Head-of-line blocking prevention
• Back pressure support
• Eight QoS queues per port with hierarchical minimum/maximum shaping per Classes of Service (CoS) per queue per port
• Standard compliant 802.1ad provider bridging
• Compatible with BCM5708S, the industry's first 2.5-Gbps SerDes-based ToE solution.