Dell FPM6F 2-Port 100Gb/s QSFP56 PCI Express 4.0 x16 Network Adapter

Dell FPM6F Broadcom 57508 2-Port 100Gb/s QSFP56 PCI Express 4.0 x16 Network Adapter

The Dell FPM6F Broadcom 57508 Dual Port 100Gb/s QSFP56 Network Adapter is an ultra-high-speed, enterprise-grade PCIe network interface card (NIC) engineered for next-generation data throughput in high-density Dell PowerEdge servers and cloud environments.

This adapter is powered by the Broadcom BCM57508 controller (part of the NetXtreme-E Gen 4 family) and features dual QSFP56 ports capable of delivering lightning-fast 100 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity per port. It is explicitly optimized for hyper-scale virtualization, high-performance computing (HPC), flash storage arrays, and enterprise data center communication requiring maximum bandwidth and minimum latency.

Performance & Benefits

• Broadcom BCM57508 Controller ensures highly efficient packet processing, ultra-low latency, and reliable line-rate performance for high-density environments.

• PCIe 4.0 x16 Interface doubles the bandwidth compared to older generations, preventing bus bottlenecks and efficiently feeding data to high-performance CPUs.

• Advanced Virtualization & Offloads natively supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2), SR-IOV, and network virtualization offloads (like VXLAN/NVGRE) to maximize VM efficiency and reduce host CPU overhead.

• Flexible Backward Compatibility supports standard 100Gb line rates while remaining backward compatible with 50Gb, 25Gb, and 10Gb Ethernet speeds depending on the connected transceiver or DAC cable.

• Enterprise Scaling & Security features hardware-based packet acceleration and a robust architecture optimized for high-bandwidth application traffic, cloud storage pools, and secure server-to-server clustering.