The Intel® Ethernet FM6000 series is a family of fully integrated wire-speed 10 Gb Ethernet switch controllers. The FM6000 supports enhanced features critical for today’s need for High Performance Switching environments: low latency, scalability, L3 routing, Priority Flow Control, Enhanced Transmission Selection, as well as support for TRILL, 802.1Qbg, 802.1Qbh, QCN, FCoE and DCBx. In addition to enhanced functionality, the FM6000 series contains up to 96 SerDes, which provides up to 72 10GbE Ethernet ports and the ability to group ports as 40 GbE MLD uplinks. The FM6000 delivers tremendous flexibility using the advanced FlexPipe™ technology, while maintaining the best-in-class latency and throughput demonstrated by the FM2000 and FM4000 families of the Intel Switch Silicon product lines.
Product Information
- Intel® Ethernet Switch FM6000 Product Brief Product Brief URL: tbd
- Product Selector Guide Item #2 URL: tbd – in development
- Additional item #3 text: Compare Products Item #3 URL: tbd - ARK
- Drivers and Software
- Technical Documentation Item #5 URL: tbd
- Community
Features and Specifications
Features and Specifications from ARK |
Intel® Ethernet Switch FM6372 |
Intel® Ethernet Switch FM6364 |
Intel® Ethernet Switch FM6348 |
Intel® Ethernet Switch FM6324 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Maximum Bandwidth |
720G |
640G |
480G |
240G |
Maximum SGMII Ports |
72 |
72 |
72 |
72 |
Maximum XAUI Ports |
24 |
24 |
24 |
24 |
Maximum 10G KR Ports |
72 |
64 |
48 |
24 |
Maximum 40G KR4 Ports |
18 |
16 |
12 |
6 |
Cut-Through Latency |
400nS |
400nS |
400nS |
400nS |
Frame Processing Rate |
1080 Mpps |
960 Mpps |
720 Mpps |
360 Mpps |
Shared Packet Memory Size |
8MB |
8MB |
8MB |
8MB |
Traffic Classes |
8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
MAC Table Size |
64K |
64K |
64K |
64K |
ACL Rules |
24K plus 64K BST |
24K plus 64K BST |
24K plus 64K BST |
24K plus 64K BST |
IPv4/IPv6 Routes |
64K/16K |
64K/16K |
64K/16K |
64K/16K |
Intel® FlexPipe™ Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Advanced Load Balancing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
CEE/DCB Features |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Server Virtualization Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Advanced Tunneling Features |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Carrier Ethernet Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
CPU Interface |
PCIe, EBI |
PCIe, EBI |
PCIe, EBI |
PCIe, EBI |
Target Applications |
Data center, FSI, HPC, ATCA, Video Distribution, Security Appliances |
Data center, FSI, HPC, ATCA, Video Distribution, Security Appliances |
Data center, FSI, HPC, ATCA, Video Distribution, Security Appliances |
Data center, FSI, HPC, ATCA, Video Distribution, Security Appliances |








