- Gigabit Ethernet
- Logical link control
- Flow control
- Standard Ethernet frame size
- TBI transceiver interfaces
- Layer-2 priority encoding
- High-speed on-chip RISC processor
- Adaptive interrupt frequency
- GMI/MII management interface
- PCI power management interface
- PCI hot-plug
- EM64T processor support
The Broadcom NetXtreme 5703 Gigabit Ethernet controller connects a PCI, or PCI-X, or PCI Express compliant server to a Gigabit Ethernet network. This network adapter incorporates a technology that transfers data at a maximum rate 10 times the rate of Fast Ethernet adapters.
The Broadcom NetXtreme 5703 Gigabit Ethernet controller targets the increased congestion experienced at the backbone and server in today's networks and provides a future upgrade path for servers that require more bandwidth than Fast Ethernet can provide.