BCM56304

24Port GbE MULTILAYER SWITCH

The is the fifth generation of the highly-integrated and cost effective StrataSwitch and StrataXGS product line in a single chip solution with 24 GbE ports and four 10-GbE/HiGig+ uplink ports. The BCM56304 is a member of the value GbE product line, with a corresponding pin-compatible member in the feature GbE product line—BCM56504. The BCM56304 incorporates 24 GbE ports that can operate 10/100/1000 Mbps. The uplink ports can operate in two modes:

• 10 GbE switching mode

• HiGig+ uplink mode

FEATURES

• 24 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports supporting both copper and fiber connections

• Fifth generation of StrataSwitch® and StrataXGS® product line

• High-density value Gigabit Ethernet GbE product line, pin compatible to feature GbE BCM56504

• Four 12-Gbps or 10-Gbps HiGig+™ port uplink interfaces

• Four 10-GbE switching ports, CX4 support

• Line-rate switching for all packet sizes and conditions

• On-chip data packet memory and table memory

• IPv6 routing and tunneling

• Advanced Fast Filter Processor FFP ContentAware™ classification

• 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