BCM5696
®
MULTILAYER 12-PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH
12-port Multilayer Gigabit Ethernet Switch
•
12 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet ports with copper or fibre
connectivity

All address tables and buffer memory fully integrated on-chip

Support for jumbo frames of up to 9 KB in size

Advanced full-duplex end-to-end flow and congestion control
with head-of-line blocking prevention

ContentAware™ packet filtering and classification per-port
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

Support for double 802.1q VLAN tagging and VLAN
translation

Hardware-based IP multicast routing and forwarding
Support for replication

Equal and weighted cost multipath routing for load balancing

Advanced diagnostic features including JTAG boundary scan
and BIST functionality

Low power consumption of 4.65W in a 480-pin PBGA package

Pin-to-pin compatible with the BCM5691
Enables modular, high-performance GbE switch designs
Facilitates seamless integration of voice, video, and data traffic
through low-latency and advanced QoS
Enables lower system design cost and board space utilization
through superior integration and compact form factor
Offers quicker time-to-market and software reuse through
backward compatibility with Broadcom switch software API
FEATURES
SUMMARY OF BENEFITS
TARGET APPLICATIONS
High-performance standalone GbE switch solutions for
distribution and wiring closet of enterprise networks and
remote branches
Embedded GbE switch solutions for blade server applications
within space-constrained data centers
Highly reliable GbE switch solutions for telecom applications
in central offices
ARL L3 Packet Buffer MMU
ContentAware
™
FFP PCI
Layer 3
On-Chip Tables
Internal Memory for
Nonblocking Performance
10/100/1000 MAC
PCI 32/66 Interface
I2C Interface
1-Gbps SerDes with
SGMII Support
12 x GbE