BCM5698

®

12-PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET LAYER 2+ SWITCH

12-Port Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2+ Switch

connectivity

with head-of-line blocking prevention

• Wirespeed operation

• Support for 802.1p, TOS/DiffServ, policing, shaping, marking,

and remarking

• Rate control of broadcast, unknown multicast and unicast

packets

• Eight queues per port

translation

and BIST functionality

through low-latency and advanced QoS

through superior integration and compact form factor

backward compatibility with Broadcom switch software API

FE A T UR E S

SU MM AR Y O F B E N E FI TS

TA RGET A P PL ICA T IO NS

distribution and wiring closet of enterprise networks and

remote branches

within space-constrained data centers

in central offices

ARL

L2

Packet Buffer MMU

PCI

12 x GbE

Layer 2

On-Chip Tables

Internal Memory for

Nonblocking Performance

10/100/1000 MAC

PCI 32/66 Interface

I2C Interface

1-Gbps SerDes with

SGMII Support