BROADCOM Bcm957412a4120ac Dual-port 10 Gb/s Ethernet Pci-enetwork Interface Card

The Broadcom BCM957412A4120AC is a wired internal network card with a PCI Express host interface, supporting up to 10000 Mbit/s. Based on Broadcom’s scalable 10/25/50/100G NetXtreme®-E controller architecture, this NIC is designed to deliver high throughput, advanced flow processing and support for modern data center networking protocols and offloads.

Advantages

NetXtreme®-E architecture provides hardware offloads for tunneling protocols (Geneve, VXLAN, NVGRE) and features such as TruFlow™ to increase VM density and reduce CPU load. The card enables significant throughput improvements and lower CPU utilization compared with software-only solutions, and supports advanced networking technologies including RoCE, SDN and NFV for scalable enterprise and cloud environments.

Suitable for

• Enterprise servers requiring high-throughput wired connectivity
• Cloud and hyper-scale data centers with heavy VM workloads
• Telco infrastructure and network function virtualization (NFV)
• Environments using RoCE, SDN or overlay tunneling protocols (Geneve, VXLAN, NVGRE)

Key specifications

• Brand: BROADCOM
• Model / MPN: BCM957412A4120AC
• EAN: 0650861000130
• Connectivity technology: Wired
• Host interface: PCI Express
• Maximum data transfer rate: 10000 Mbit/s

How to use

Install the network card into an available PCI Express slot on a compatible server motherboard following the server vendor’s hardware installation guidelines. Ensure appropriate drivers and firmware from Broadcom are installed and updated. Configure networking settings in the operating system or hypervisor, and enable hardware offload and tunneling features where supported to take advantage of throughput and CPU utilization improvements.

Recommendations

Use in systems with adequate cooling and power capacity; keep firmware and drivers current to ensure compatibility and performance with RoCE, SDN and NFV deployments.