OVERVIEW

The Broadcom® BCM56160 switch family offers industry-leading integration and low power in a small footprint. The device offers up to 24 GbE ports, four 10GE uplink ports, in addition to 50 Gb/s of stacking bandwidth in a 29 mm x 29 mm package. Offering the industry’s highest level of integration, the BCM56160 has 16 embedded copper GPHYs as well as a powerful ARM A9 processor. The BCM56160 is ideal for cost sensitive edge applications, such as light L3-managed wiring closet switches for enterprise or MTU/ MDU switch for service providers.

The BCM56160 family offers I/O configurations that address key segments of edge connectivity. A single device supports the popular 24x GbE switch with 4x 10GbE or 40GbE uplinks. Two devices can be cascaded to build nonblocking 48x GbE switch systems with 4x 10GbE uplinks and two HG[20] stacking ports, or two 40GbE uplinks.

IEEE 802.11ac Wave2 increases the data rate required by Access Points from GbE to 2.5GbE. The BCM56160 dedicates eight of the 24 ports to be multirate, enabling the development of cost effective platforms for the Enterprise that support both Gigabit connections for the desktop as well as 2.5GbE for access points.

The BCM56160 device family builds on the successful BCM56150 and features EEE for low power, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN, VLAN translation, enhanced Denial of Service (DoS) protection, IPv4 and IPv6 support, advanced ContentAware™ Engine, IEEE 802.1p Quality of Service (QoS), and HiGig stacking. New features in this generation include priority flow control, IEEE 802.1br port extender support, expanded tables, and new VLAN-based counters for traffic profiling including visibility into CAPWAP tunnels. Expanded L3 features include WRED, ECN, and uRPF.

Broadcom Enterprise Edge Switch with High Integration for 24/48 Port Systems – IC – part #BCM56160B0KFSBG

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