P73511-001 HPE Broadcom BCM57608 2-Port QSFP112 Network Adapter

Highlights of HPE P73511-001 Broadcom 2 Port Network Adapter

The HPE P73511-001 Broadcom BCM57608 Network Adapter is a cutting-edge, high-speed 100Gb Ethernet connectivity solution engineered for enterprise data centers, cloud platforms, and high-performance computing environments. Built with Broadcom BCM57608 chipset technology and PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, this OCP 3.0 adapter delivers superior bandwidth, advanced virtualization support, and enterprise-grade security features.

General Information

• Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
• Part Number: P73511-001
• Product Type: Network Adapter
• Interface Type: PCI Express 5.0 x16
• Sub Type: 2-Port Ethernet Adapter

Technical Specifications

Port and Interface Specifications

• Number of Ports: 2 × Ethernet Ports
• Form Factor: OCP 3.0
• Chipset: Broadcom BCM57608 Ethernet Controller
• Port Type: QSFP112
• Maximum Data Transfer Rate: 100Gb per port
• Supported Speed Modes: 25Gb, 50Gb, and 100Gb
• Interface Type: OCP 3.0
• Host Interface: PCI Express 5.0 x16

Chipset and Controller

• Network Controller: Broadcom BCM57608
• Controller Type: High-performance Ethernet ASIC
• Optimized For: Enterprise networking and data center environments

Power and Hardware Requirements

• Maximum Power Consumption: 11 Watts
• Form Factor: OCP 3.0 Network Adapter
• Energy Efficient Design: Yes

Network Protocol and Feature Support

• Internet Protocol Support: IPv4 and IPv6
• RDMA Support: RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet)
• Tunnel Offload Support: VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS): Supported
• DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit): Supported

Acceleration Technologies

• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV): Up to 128 Virtual Functions
• NPar Support: 8 Physical Functions per port (16 per adapter)
• VMware NetQueue Support: Yes
• Microsoft Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ): Supported
• Virtualization Optimization: Yes

Boot and Remote Management Support

• UEFI PXE Boot: Supported
• Legacy BIOS PXE Boot: Not Supported (UEFI Only)
• iSCSI Remote Boot: Supported via UEFI

Security and Hardware Protection Features

• Root of Trust: Hardware-based security
• SPDM Support: Yes
• Secure Boot: Supported
• Authenticated Firmware Updates: Yes
• Audit Log Capability: Supported
• Secure Sanitization: Yes

Additional Enterprise Features

• High-speed enterprise Ethernet connectivity
• Optimized for cloud, virtualization, and HPC workloads
• Compatible with modern enterprise server infrastructure
• Designed for scalable and secure network deployment

Overview of HPE P73511-001 Broadcom BCM57608 Adapter 

The HPE P73511-001 Broadcom BCM57608 2-Port Ethernet 100GB QSFP112 PCIe 5.0 x16 OCP3 Network Adapter is designed to deliver exceptional networking performance for enterprise, cloud, and hyperscale data center environments. With dual 100Gb Ethernet ports, this network adapter provides ultra-fast data transfer capabilities, enabling servers to handle bandwidth-intensive workloads efficiently. Modern data centers require advanced network infrastructure capable of supporting virtualization, artificial intelligence workloads, high-performance computing, and distributed storage systems. This network adapter provides the high bandwidth and low latency required to ensure consistent and reliable performance across complex server environments.

Dual-Port 100Gb Ethernet Architecture for High Bandwidth Workloads

The dual-port configuration allows servers to connect to high-speed network infrastructure using QSFP112 interfaces. Each port supports 100Gb Ethernet connectivity, providing a combined bandwidth of 200Gb per second. This capability ensures efficient communication between servers and network infrastructure. High bandwidth connectivity is essential for environments that process large volumes of data. Applications such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence training, virtualization platforms, and distributed databases require fast and reliable network communication. The HPE P73511-001 adapter ensures optimal performance for these demanding workloads.

Enhanced Network Throughput and Reduced Latency

Low latency communication ensures efficient data transfer between servers and network devices. The Broadcom BCM57608 controller is designed to minimize latency and improve network efficiency. High throughput capabilities allow servers to handle multiple high-speed connections simultaneously without performance degradation.

Broadcom BCM57608 Controller and Intelligent Acceleration

The Broadcom BCM57608 controller provides advanced network acceleration features designed to improve performance and efficiency. This controller supports hardware-based packet processing, reducing CPU utilization and improving overall system efficiency. Hardware acceleration ensures that network tasks are handled efficiently, allowing servers to focus on application processing.

Advanced Packet Processing and Traffic

The network adapter includes intelligent traffic management features that ensure efficient data transfer. These features improve network performance and reduce congestion.

Data Handling and Network Offloading

Offloading capabilities allow the network adapter to handle network processing tasks independently, reducing CPU load and improving performance.

PCI Express 5.0 x16 Interface for Data Transfer Performance

The PCIe 5.0 x16 interface provides extremely high bandwidth connectivity between the network adapter and server system. This ensures that the adapter can operate at full performance without creating bottlenecks. PCIe Gen5 provides significantly higher bandwidth compared to PCIe Gen4, allowing faster data transfer and improved overall performance.

High-Performance 100Gb Ethernet Connectivity Data Centers

The HPE P73511-001 Broadcom BCM57608 2-Port Ethernet 100GB QSFP112 PCIe 5.0 x16 OCP3 Network Adapter is purpose-built to meet the growing networking demands of enterprise data centers, hyperscale cloud environments, and high-performance computing infrastructures that require extremely fast, stable, and efficient network connectivity. As organizations continue to adopt bandwidth-intensive technologies such as artificial intelligence, real-time analytics, virtualization, and distributed storage systems, the need for high-speed Ethernet connectivity has become critical for maintaining consistent application performance and operational efficiency.

Dual-Port 100Gb Ethernet Architecture for Maximum Throughput

The dual-port architecture of the HPE P73511-001 network adapter provides exceptional networking flexibility and performance by enabling each port to operate independently at speeds of up to 100Gb per second. This allows organizations to achieve a combined throughput of up to 200Gb per second, ensuring sufficient bandwidth for even the most demanding workloads. This level of performance is essential for applications such as distributed computing, high-frequency database synchronization, enterprise storage networking, and real-time data analytics. Each port can be configured for redundancy, load balancing, or network segmentation, allowing network administrators to design highly resilient and scalable network architectures.

Ultra-Low Latency and High-Speed Packet Transmission

The Broadcom BCM57608 controller is engineered to deliver ultra-low latency communication, ensuring that data packets are transmitted quickly and efficiently across the network. Low latency is essential for mission-critical applications such as financial transactions, real-time analytics, and high-performance computing workloads where even minor delays can impact performance. The adapter minimizes latency by using advanced packet processing algorithms and hardware acceleration technologies, allowing data to move efficiently between servers and network infrastructure. This ensures faster application execution and improved overall system responsiveness.

PCI Express 5.0 x16 Interface for Server Performance

The PCI Express 5.0 x16 interface provides significantly higher bandwidth compared to previous PCIe generations, enabling faster communication between the network adapter and the server's internal architecture. PCIe Gen5 technology delivers double the bandwidth of PCIe Gen4, ensuring that the network adapter can operate at full capacity without creating bottlenecks within the server. This is particularly important for high-speed 100Gb Ethernet networking, where large volumes of data must be transferred rapidly between system memory and the network interface.

Data Transfer and Reduced System Bottlenecks

The direct connection between the network adapter and server motherboard through the PCIe Gen5 x16 interface ensures maximum data transfer efficiency and minimizes communication delays. This allows large datasets to be transmitted quickly between the network and server memory, improving overall application performance. By eliminating internal bandwidth limitations, the adapter ensures consistent high-speed communication across all connected systems.

QSFP112 Interface Technology for High-Speed Ethernet

The QSFP112 interface provides advanced high-speed connectivity designed to support modern 100Gb Ethernet networking standards. This interface enables reliable and efficient communication between servers and network switches, ensuring stable connectivity in enterprise and hyperscale environments. The QSFP112 interface supports high-speed optical transceivers and direct attach cables, providing flexible connectivity options for different network configurations. This allows organizations to deploy the adapter in a wide range of networking environments, including data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise server infrastructures.

OCP 3.0 Form Factor for Modern Data Center Integration

The OCP 3.0 form factor ensures compatibility with modern server designs and open compute platforms. This form factor is optimized for data center deployment, providing improved airflow, better thermal efficiency, and simplified cable management. The OCP 3.0 design allows the adapter to integrate seamlessly with modern server infrastructure, ensuring efficient installation and operation. The optimized physical layout of the adapter ensures efficient heat dissipation, preventing overheating and ensuring reliable long-term performance. This is essential for data center environments where servers operate continuously under heavy workloads.

Improved Thermal and Reliable Operation

The advanced thermal design ensures efficient cooling and stable operation even in high-density server environments. This improves overall system reliability and reduces the risk of hardware failure.

Advanced and Cloud Networking Acceleration

The HPE P73511-001 network adapter supports advanced virtualization technologies that improve network performance in virtualized environments. This allows virtual machines to communicate efficiently with network resources, improving overall virtualization performance. Hardware acceleration ensures efficient network communication between virtual environments, reducing latency and improving application responsiveness. This capability is essential for cloud computing platforms and enterprise virtualization deployments, where multiple virtual machines share the same physical network infrastructure. The adapter ensures consistent performance and reliable connectivity across virtual environments.

Improved Virtual Machine Performance and Resource

By offloading network processing tasks from the server CPU, the adapter improves virtual machine performance and ensures efficient resource utilization. This allows organizations to maximize the performance of their virtualization infrastructure.

Enterprise-Level Reliability and Long-Term Scalability

The HPE P73511-001 Broadcom BCM57608 network adapter is built using enterprise-grade components designed to ensure reliable and continuous operation in demanding data center environments. Its robust architecture ensures stable network connectivity, reduced downtime, and improved overall system reliability. This ensures that enterprise applications remain accessible and operational at all times.