Broadcom
B CM565 40
P re m i e r Met ro Eth e r n et
Swi tch
HIGH BANDWIDTH 1 GBE/10 GBE/40 GBE MULTILAYER
ETHERNET SWITCH
Overview
The Broadcom® BCM56540 is a high-bandwidth
1 GbE/10 GbE/40 GbE multilayer Ethernet switch
designed for access and aggregation deployments.
The BCM56540 is an advanced switch that delivers
180 Gbps of line-rate performance.
Built on the proven StrataXGS® architecture, the
Highlights BCM56540 brings groundbreaking innovations into
the metro aggregation layer. With the Broadcom
• Multiprotocol Label Switching
AppAware™ engine, the BCM56540 enables ubiq-
(MPLS) and Multiprotocol Label
uitous traffic visualization and application-based
Switching-Transport Protocol
(MPLS-TP) MPLS-TP flow, QoS, and management capabilities cost-effec-
tively.
• Dynamic Load Balancing
• Complete timing solution Integrating Broadcom's industry-leading SerDes
• Traffic visualization and applica- technology, the BCM56540 provides standard-
based 40 GbE and 10 GbE support. This is ideal for
tion-based Quality of Service
(QoS) satisfying increasing bandwidth and speed
• Application-based policy and demands.
QoS
• Supports scalable, active-active Summary of Benefits
forwarding
• Proven, high-performance architecture
• Fully integrated timing recovery solution
reduces system BOM.
• Enables application-based table size customi-
zation.
• Proven, mature unified API maximizes soft-
ware reuse and shortens time-to-market.
Features
• Highly efficient policy creation and manage-
ment
• Superior burst management
BCM56540
• Comprehensive hardware OAM support
Service reduces host CPU burden
Provider
• Dedicated meters and counters provide effec-
Data Centers tive SLA guarantee
• RFC3917 IPFIX support for Enterprise flow
Enterprise management and statistics
• Unified wireless/wireline switching
Supported Best Choice
Features
• Standard-based 40 GbE and 10 GbE support
• Flexible unified forwarding table
• CAPWAP tunnel port for unified wired/wireless
switching
• Broadcom AppAware flow recognition and
QoS
• IFPIX and sFlow
• Dynamic load balancing over LAG, ECMP and
HiGig™
• Network HiGig support
• XGS™ Smart Buffer support
• Hardware OAM support for IEEE 802.1ag CFM
and Y.1731
• Dedicated hierarchical meters and counters
• Layer 1 clock recovery
• Layer 2 network time synchronization and
clock recovery
• 128-bit IPv6 LPM support
• Multistage ContentAware™ engine
• Energy Efficient Ethernet™ (IEEE 802.3az)
• Packet-based time synchronization (IEEE 1588
and IEEE 802.1AS) with one-step and two-step
timestamping support
• Synchronous Ethernet layer 1 clock recovery
• On-chip packet buffer memory with dynamic
buffer management for maximum burst
absorption
• Enhanced congestion management capabili-
ties
– Destination module VOQ
– Dynamic load balancing over HiGig and LAG
• Scheduling algorithms
– Strict Priority
– Round Robin
– Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
– Weighted Deficit Round Robin (WDRR)
• Full QoS support
– Service aware flow control (SAFC)
– Weighted RED
 BCM56540

ContentAware Dynamic MMU

Engine

L2/L3/L4 Packet Processing

Tunneling (MPLS, PBB, CAPWAP, TRILL)

Time Meters AppAware

ISM OAM
Sync Counters Engine

Frequency 1G/10G/40G Ethernet MACs

Synthesizer CPU
I/F 48 x 3G 16 x 10G
Tuned
SerDes SerDes
SyncE

PCIe +
1x SGMII
BCM56540 Block Diagram

Target Applications
• Chassis-based metro systems
• PTN nodes
• 1 GE/10 GE/40 GE line cards

Ordering Information
Part Number Application
BCM56540A0KFSB 48 x 1 GE + 1 GE + 4 x XFI + 2 x HG[42]
BCM56541A0KFSB 28 x 1 GE + 1 GE + 4 x XFI + 2 x HG[42]
BCM56542A0KFSB 28 x 1 GE +1 GE + 2 x F.XAUI + 2 x HG[42] + 2 x HG[21]
BCM56544A0KFSB 1 GE + 10 x F.XAUI + 2 x HG[42]

About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology
innovator and global leader in
semiconductors for wired and wireless
communications. Broadcom® products
enable the delivery of voice, video, data and
multimedia to and throughout the home, the
office and the mobile environment. We
provide the industry's broadest portfolio of
state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and
software solutions to manufacturers of
computing and networking equipment,
digital entertainment and broadband access
products, and mobile devices.
These solutions support our core mission: A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is
Connecting everything®. headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices
Broadcom, one of the world's largest fabless and research facilities in North America, Asia
communications semiconductor companies, and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at
with 2010 revenue of $6.82 billion, holds +1.949.926.5000 or at www.broadcom.com.
more than 4,800 U.S. and 2,000 foreign
patents, and has more than 7,800 additional
pending patent applications, and one of the
broadest intellectual property portfolios
addressing both wired and wireless
transmission of voice, video, data and
multimedia.

Broadcom, the pulse logo, Connecting everything, the Connecting everything logo, Broadcom AppAware™, HiGig™, XGS™, StrataXGS®, and ContentAware™ are among the trademarks of Broad-
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April 28, 2011 • 56540-PB01-R