Product Information
Broadcom's NetXtreme E-Series N2100G (BCM957508-N2100G) is a two port 100 Gigabit adapter with QSFP56 cages, built on the BCM57508 controller, and it accepts QSFP56, QSFP28 or QSFP+ optics and direct attach copper cables. It supports DCB, iSCSI boot, LRO and LSO, GRE offloads and 9,000 byte jumbo frames, drawing about 19.3 W. The spec lists a low profile PCIe 4.0 x16 card while the description calls it an OCP 3.0 adapter, so please confirm the form factor.
Key Features
- 2 x 100GbE QSFP56 ports
- Broadcom BCM57508
- Optics or DAC cables
- DCB and iSCSI boot
- About 19.3 W power draw
- Confirm OCP or PCIe
Product Information
Brand: Broadcom
Manufacturer: BROADCOM
Product Line: Broadcom NetXtreme E-Series
Model: N2100G
Product Type: Network adapter
Packaged Quantity: 1
Network and Communication
Connectivity Technology: Wired
Data Link Protocols: 100 Gigabit Ethernet
Features: Data Center Bridging (DCB), Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) support, Enhanced transmission selection (ETS), Extended Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X), Function Level Reset (FLR), Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), Interrupt coalescing, iSCSI boot, Jumbo Frames support (up to 9000 bytes), Large Receive Offload (LRO), Large Send Offload (LSO), MCTP over SMBus, Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI), Multi-Host technology, Mware NetQueue and Microsoft Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ), NetQueue, Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI), Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 support, Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC), PXE support, Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), Receive Side Scaling (RSS), Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), SMBus 2.0, TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), TCP/IP checksum offload, Transmit Side Scaling (TSS), TruFlow, Tunnel-aware stateless offloads, UDP/IP checksum offload, UEFI support, Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), vSwitch Acceleration, Wake On LAN (WOL)
Connectivity
PCI Specification Revision: PCIe 4.0
Port Quantity: 2
Interface Provided: 2 x 100Gb Ethernet - QSFP56
Network & Adapter Ports: 100 Gigabit QSFP56
Host Interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
Power
Power Consumption Operational: 19.3 watt
Memory and Processor
Processor Brand: Broadcom
Processor Number: BCM57508
Physical Characteristics
Form Factor: Plug-In Card
Low Profile: Low profile
Status Indicators: Link/activity
Certifications and Listing
Compliant Standards: MSA SFF-8402
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