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Abstract
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapters are high-performance 25 Gb Ethernet adapters in either standard PCIe form factor or the Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 SFF form factor.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the adapters and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about Broadcom 25 GbE network adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.
Change History
Changes in the April 17, 2025 update:
- Updated the transceiver support for the OCP adapter (Table 3) - Supported transceivers and cables section
Introduction
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapters are high-performance 25 Gb Ethernet adapters in either standard PCIe form factor or the Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 SFF form factor. They offer TruFlow™ intelligent flow processing and supports advanced networking technologies including RoCE v2, SDN, NFV and virtualization.
The following figure shows the 4-port OCP adapter.
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter
Did you know?
These adapters support 10 Gb or 25 Gb Ethernet switches, including the ThinkSystem NE2572 RackSwitch 25 Gb Ethernet switch. Alternatively, with suitable breakout cables, you can connect four 25 Gb adapters or ports to a single 100 GbE switch port such as the ThinkSystem NE10032 RackSwitch to maximize the investment of your 100Gb switch.
Part number information
The ordering information is listed in the following table.
* The V2 adapter, 4XC7A08316, offers improved electrostatic discharge (ESD) support over the existing adapter, 4XC7A08241; No functional change.
The adapters, when shipped as a stand-alone option part number, includes the following items:
- One Broadcom adapter
- PCIe adapters: Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box
- Documentation flyer
Supported transceivers and cables
The adapters have empty SFP28 cages for connectivity. The adapters either support a connection to a 10 Gb or 25 Gb switch or can share a connection to a 100 Gb switch using a 4:1 breakout cable.
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter V2 supports specific transceivers.
The following table lists the supported transceivers.
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter supports specific transceivers.
The following table lists the supported transceivers.
Configuration notes:
- It is supported to mix 10Gb and 1Gb transceivers or to mix 25Gb and 1Gb transceivers. It is not supported to mix 10Gb and 25Gb transceivers.
- Transceivers BF10, AV1B, and BYBJ are only supported at 25 Gb/s speed with the 57454 adapters.
The following table lists the supported optical cables.
The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.
Features
The adapters have the following features:
- Broadcom TruFlow technology integrates flow processing to provide hardware assisted processing of traffic flows with data path Acceleration. TruFlow enables efficient network flow processing and increases Virtual Machine density by offloading the server CPU to improve application performance.
- Broadcom adapters are the industry’s most secure Ethernet solution, leveraging Broadcom’s BroadSAFE® technology to provide unparalleled platform security via Silicon Root of Trust. Broadcom is the first Ethernet Adapter vendor to store authentication key and code in silicon to protect clients from maliciously modified firmware.
- The adapters support RoCEv2. RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) allows Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) traffic to be communicated over Converged Ethernet using Data Center Bridging (DCB). Broadcom’s Smart Congestion Control provides consistent and predictable performance for real world workloads plus scaling for heavily loaded network traffic making it ideal for clients looking for deterministic low latency.
- Support for Data Center Bridging (DCB), including IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority based Flow Control (PFC), 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), and 802.1Qau Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) capabilities. DCB technology allows the device to provide lossless data delivery, prioritize low latency traffic, and share bandwidth among data center physical links.
- Support for SR-IOV to allow I/O transactions to bypasses hypervisors, which reduces latency by removing data copies and context switches between VM address space and hypervisor address space, when transmitting or receiving data over the network. The implementation supports 802.1Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)
Specifications
The adapters have the following technical specifications:
- Based on the Broadcom BCM57454 (4-port) controller
- PCIe 3.0 x16 host interface
- OCP adapters are designed to the Open Compute Project (OCP) NIC 3.0 (version 0.85) with the primary connector (4C+ OCP)
- Supports Message Signal Interrupt (MSI-X)
- Fully compliant with the SFF-8402 standard
- Up to four SFP28 external connectors supporting a transceiver, direct-attach copper (DAC) cable or active optical cable (AOC).
- Support for PXE boot
- Support for Wake on LAN (WOL) (OCP adapter only)
- Function-Level Reset (FLR) support
- Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI)
- PCIe-based UART and KCS
- SMBus 2.0
- Networking Features
- Jumbo frames (up to 9600-Byte)
- 3x flow control
- Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
- Virtual LANs-802.1q VLAN tagging
- Configurable Flow Acceleration
- Advanced Congestion Avoidance
- IEEE 1588 and Time Sync
- Forward Error Correction Clause 74, Clause 91 support over 25 Gbps
- Performance Features
- 30M Packet Per Second
- Low latency
- Bidirectional wire speed throughput
- Stateless Offload Features
- IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
- TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6 checksum offload
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- Receive Segment Coalescing
- TCP Segmentation offload (TSO)
- Large Receive Offload (LRO)
- Generic Receive Offload
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
- Header-Payload Split
- Accelerated Received Flow Steering (RFS)
- Virtualization
- vSwitch Acceleration
- NetQueue, VMQueue, and Multiqueue
- SR-IOV with up to 1K virtual functions (VFs).
- VXLAN-aware stateless offloads
- NVGRE-aware stateless offloads
- Geneve-aware stateless offloads
- IP-in-IP-aware stateless offloads
- GRE-aware (encap/decap) stateless offloads
- Stateless Transport Tunneling
- Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)
- Per Virtual Function (VF) statistics
- VF Receive-Side Scaling (RSS)/Transmit-Side Scaling (TSS)
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- RoCEv2
- Data Center Bridging with RoCE
- Reliable Connection Queue Pair
- Unreliable Datagram Queue Pair
- Raw Ethertype Queue Pair
- Up to 1 million Queue Pairs
- Up to 64K Shared Receive Queues
- Up to 1 million Completion Queues
- Up to 1 million Memory Regions and Memory Windows
- Up to 1 million Protection Domains
- Up to 250 outstanding RDMA Reads or Atomics per Queue Pair
- Congestion Avoidance (hardware-based flows tracking and rate adjustment)
- Fast Memory Register
- Linux OFED 3.5 and later
- MS-Windows Network Direct Kernel Provider Interface and SMBDirect
- MS-Windows Network Direct Service Provider Interface
- Integrated Flow Processing
- 1 million+ Exact Match Flows
- Exact Match Flow Lookup
- Wildcard Match Flow Lookup
- VLAN insertion/deletion
- NAT/NAPT
- Tunnel Encapsulation/De-capsulation
- Flow tracking and aging
- Mirroring
- Metering
- Flow counters/statistics
- Custom tunnel header support
- Data Center Bridging
- Priority-based flow control (PFC; IEEE 802.1Qbb)
- Enhanced transmission selection (ETS; IEEE 802.1Qaz)
- Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN; IEEE 802.1Qau)
- Data Center Bridging Capability eXchange (DCBX; IEEE 802.1Qaz)
- Up to 8 traffic classes per port; fully DCB compliant per 802.1Qbb
- Manageability
- TruManage Technology based on Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standards and protocols, support for SMASH2.0, WS-Man, and IPMI2.0/DCMI1.5
- Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) - MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe VDM
- Power Saving
- ACPI compliant power management
- PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM)
- PCI Express eCLKREQ support
- PCI Express unused lane powered down
- Ultra low-power mode
- Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE Std 802.3az-2010)
- Power Management (PM) Offload
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
- In 1U servers, this adapter requires a full-height bracket and must be installed in a full-height slot. The use of a low-profile bracket and slot is not supported.
- In 1U servers, this adapter requires a full-height bracket and must be installed in a full-height slot. The use of a low-profile bracket and slot is not supported.
Operating system support
The following table indicates which operating systems can be preloaded in the Lenovo factory for CTO server orders where this adapter is included in the server configuration.
Tip: If an OS is listed as "No support" above, but it is listed in one of the support tables below, that means the OS is supported by the adapter, just not available to be preloaded in the Lenovo factory in CTO orders.
The following tables list the supported operating systems:
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08241
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter V2, 4XC7A08316
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08242
Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
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2 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
3 ISG will not sell/preload this OS, but compatibility and cert only.
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2 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
3 ISG will not sell/preload this OS, but compatibility and cert only.
Physical specifications
The PCIe adapter has the following dimensions:
- Length: 167 mm (6.6 in.)
- Height: 63 mm (2.5 in)
The OCP adapter has the following dimensions:
- Width: 76 mm (3 in.)
- Depth: 115 mm (4.5 in.)
Operating environment
The adapters are supported in the following environment:
- Temperature (operating): 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
- Temperature (storage): -40 to 65 °C (-40 to 149 °F)
- Humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing
Warranty
One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, these adapters assume the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrade.
Agency approvals
The adapters conform to the following standards:
- EN 55022:2010 + AC:2011 Class B (CE EU)
- EN 55024 Class B (EU)
- CFR47, Part 15 Class B (USA FCC)
- ICES-003 Class B (Canada)
- CNS13438 Class B (BSMI Taiwan)
- RRL KN22 Class B (S. Korea)
- KN24 (ESD) (S. Korea)
- V-3 / 2014 / 04 (VCCI Japan)
- EN 60950-1
- UL 60950-1
- CTUVus UL
- CSA 22.2 No. 950
- CNS14336 Class B
- ICES 003
- UL 1977 (connector safety)
- UL 796 (PCB wiring safety)
- UL 94 (flammability of parts)
Top-of-rack Ethernet switches
The following table lists the Ethernet LAN switches that are offered by Lenovo.
For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following switch categories:
- 1 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/1gb?rt=product-guide
- 10 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/10gb?rt=product-guide
- 25 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/25gb?rt=product-guide
- 40 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/40gb?rt=product-guide
- 100 Gb Ethernet switches: https://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/100Gb?rt=product-guide
Related publications
For more information, see the following resources:
- Networking Options for ThinkSystem Servers
https://lenovopress.com/lp0765-networking-options-for-thinksystem-servers - Lenovo ServerProven compatibility information:
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/
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Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
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Full Change History
Changes in the April 17, 2025 update:
- Updated the transceiver support for the OCP adapter (Table 3) - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the April 11, 2025 update:
- Separated the transceiver support for the PCIe and OCP adapters into two separate tables (Tables 2 and 3) - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the August 1, 2024 update:
- Added information about factory preload support for operating systems - Operating system support section
Changes in the September 17, 2023 update:
- Withdrawn cables are now hidden; click Show Withdrawn Products to view them - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the June 23, 2023 update:
- Transceivers AV1B and BF10 are only supported at 25Gb/s speed on these adapters - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the April 17, 2023 update:
- iSCSI boot is no longer supported - Specifications section
Changes in the January 12, 2023 update:
- RoCE v1 is no longer supported - Specifications section
Changes in the November 8, 2022 update:
- Added the following breakout cables - Supported transceivers and cables section:
- Lenovo 1.5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable, 4Z57A85043
- Lenovo 2m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable, 4Z57A85044
Changes in the June 1, 2022 update:
- The following adapter is withdrawn from marketing:
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08241
Changes in the December 24, 2021 update:
- Added note about mixing transceivers - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the December 14, 2021 update:
- Added support for the following transceivers - Supported transceivers and cables section:
- ThinkSystem Accelink 10G SR SFP+ Ethernet transceiver, 4TC7A78615
- Lenovo 25Gb SR SFP28 Ethernet Transceiver, 4M27A67041
Changes in the October 20, 2021 update:
- Added a note that the 25GbE transceivers can operate at 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s speeds when installed in a 25GbE adapter - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the February 15, 2021 update:
- The server support tables are now automatically updated - Server support section
Changes in the December 1, 2020 update:
- Restored support for Lenovo 25GBase-SR SFP28 Transceiver, 7G17A03537, however not supported installed in the OCP adapter - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the November 24, 2020 update:
- New transceiver added, Lenovo Dual Rate 10G/25G SFP28 85C Transceiver, 4TC7A69045
- Removed as not supported, Lenovo 25GBase-SR SFP28 Transceiver, 7G17A03537
Changes in the October 13, 2020 update:
- Added the SR850 V2 and SR860 V2 servers - Server support section
Changes in the September 8, 2020 update:
- The following adapter is now supported in the SR645 and SR665 - Server support section:
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter V2, 4XC7A08316
- Added OS support information for the V2 adapter - Operating system support section
Changes in the August 25, 2020 update:
- New adapter with enhanced environmental (ESD) support:
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter V2, 4XC7A08316
Changes in the July 31, 2020 update:
- The OCP adapter supports Wake on LAN (WOL) however the PCIe adapter does not support WOL - Specifications section
Changes in the May 5, 2020 update:
- Added SR645 and SR665 to the server support table - Server support section
Changes in the February 18, 2020 update:
- New ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
Changes in the February 5, 2020 update:
- Added operating system support information
First published: 19 December 2019
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