Broadcom BCM957414M4143C - Network adapter - PCIe 3.0 x8 Mezzanine - 50 Gigabit QSFP28 x 1
- Single-port pluggable media interface, which may be equipped with 50 Gb/s QSFP28 optical transceiver or with copper direct-attach cable
- Fully compliant with the SFF-8665 standard
- X8 PCI Express 3.0 compliant
- SR-IOV with up to 128 virtual functions (VFs)
- Function-Level Reset (FLR) support
- TruFlow flow processing engine
- Virtual Network Termination - VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, GRE encap/decap
- VSwitch acceleration
- Tunnel-aware stateless offloads
- DCB support: PFC, ETS, QCN, DCBx
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI)
- SMBus 2.0
- MCTP over SMBus
- PCIe-based UART and KCS
- Jumbo frames up to 9 KB
- Advanced Congestion Avoidance
- Multiqueue, NetQueue, and VMQ
- IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
- TCP, UDP, and IP checksum offloads
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- Large Receive Offload (LRO)
- TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
- Receive-side Scaling (RSS)
- Transmit-side Scaling (TSS)
- VLAN insertion/removal
- Interrupt coalescing
- Network boot - PXE, UEFI
- ISCSI boot
- Wake-on-LAN (WOL)
- MSI and MSI.X
The Broadcom BCM957414M4143C is a single-port 50 Gb/s, PCI Express 3.0 x8 Mezzanine Card, designed to the Open Compute Project (OCP) Mezzanine Card 2.0 Design Specification with a QSFP28 network connector as a Type 1 adapter with the board outline adhering to the original v0.5 dimensions. The adapter supports both QSFP28 optical modules and copper direct-attach cables. The card uses the Broadcom BCM57414 50GbE MAC controller with an integrated single-channel 50GbE SFI transceiver.
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Enhanced connectivity
The Broadcom BCM957414M4143C network adapter offers a QSFP28 connector, providing a robust 50 Gb Ethernet connection that ensures high-speed data transfer and reliable connectivity for demanding data center environments.
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Advanced networking features
This adapter is equipped with a suite of advanced features including Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) support, Enhanced transmission selection (ETS), and Receive Side Scaling (RSS), enhancing the efficiency and scalability of network infrastructures.
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Comprehensive virtualization support
Support for technologies such as Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) makes this adapter ideal for virtualized environments, offering improved data segregation and mobility.
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Efficient network management
Features like Wake On LAN (WOL), Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC), and Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) provide enhanced network management capabilities, allowing for improved traffic prioritization and congestion avoidance.
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Environmental resilience
Designed to operate in a wide range of environmental conditions, the BCM957414M4143C can function in temperatures from -40°C to 70°C and humidity levels from 5 to 95% (non-condensing), ensuring reliability in various operational scenarios.
