Huawei Unveils CloudEngine Series Switches

Huawei launched its latest CloudEngine 12700 series what it claims as high performance core switch at the Gartner Summit ITxpo in Goa.

The CloudEngine 12700 series switches (CE12700 for short) are high-performance core switches, and agile switch designed for data center networks and high-end campus networks. Using the Huawei VRP8 software platform, the CE12700 switches provide stable, reliable, secure, and high-performance L2/L3 switching capabilities, and are designed to build a scalable, virtualized, and converged network.



The CE12700 switches use advanced hardware architecture design and have the highest performance of all current core switches. The CE12700 provides a maximum of 48 Tbps switching capacity and high-density line-speed ports. These switches use an industry-leading Clos-based architecture and a front-to-rear ventilation channel design to provide industrial-grade reliability. The switches also provide comprehensive virtualization capabilities and data center features. Moreover, the CE12700 switches use innovative energy-saving technologies to greatly reduce power consumption.

Mr Vikram Saluja – Head Enterprise Networking Solutions says, “Huawei has always been pioneer in bringing advanced solutions to bridge the technology gap and address the Enterprise requirements innovatively. In keeping with tradition, Huawei has designed yet another product that claims several of the ‘world’s first’ titles in networking products. As a platinum sponsor, Huawei brings to life its motto of “A Better Way” for enterprises. Huawei will be showcasing its comprehensive portfolio of integrated ICT products and solutions at its own booth and at first of its kind learning lab at the Gartner Symposium  ITxpo.”

With an orthogonal design, the service line cards and switch fabric units of the CE12700 constitute a multi-level, multi-plane switch fabric, which allows almost unlimited capacity expansion, helping implement the large-scale non-blocking switching required in data centers. The CE12700 also uses Variable Size Cell (VSC) for dynamic routing. A unified arbitration mechanism is used to ensure fair route selection and load balancing between switching paths so that links are used at 100%. The Virtual output Queueing mechanism adds packets with different destinations to multiple virtual output queues to prevent head of line blocking (HOL).

The CE12700 series provide industrial-grade reliability, with a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 22.5 years. The high reliability and the In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) feature meet customer requirements for service continuity. To prolong durability, the power supplies support N+N backup and have an independent heat dissipation system. Each fan tray has two counter-rotating fans working in 1+1 backup mode.

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  1. It is no doublt that it is impossible to change the market-leading position of Cisco, from our Huawei switches supplier huanetwork.com. The Huawei S3352P-PWR-EI S3352P-PWR-EI now is more popular, few requirement for 12700 maybe because these are new.

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