Cloud Fabric Data Center Network Solution
Cloud Fabric Data Center Network Solution Product and Solution Overview Huawei CloudEngine (CE) series switches are high-performance cloud switches designed for nextgeneration data centers and high-end campus networks. The series includes the CE12800 flagship core switches with the world's highest performance, and CE6800/5800 high-performance box switches (for 10GE/GE access). The CE series uses Huawei's next-generation VRP8 software platform and supports rich data center and campus network service features. Huawei has combined the CE series switches with Huawei transmission, routing, security, and network management products to create the Cloud Fabric solution for next-generation cloudcomputing data centers. This solution helps customers build a stable network architecture supporting business growth and development for the next 10 years. Cloud Applications ISP/ICP Cloud EDC Cloud Education Government Transportation Health Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Network Solutions Elastic Fabric Cloud Fabric Virtualized Fabric High-quality Fabric Integrated Fabric Disaster Recovery Security Management Network Devices CloudEngine Series Optical Transmission Security Router esight CE12816 CE12812 CE12808 CE12804 CE6800/5800 Product Series CE12800 Series The CE12800 switches are high-performance core switches designed for data center networks and high-end campus networks. They implement an advanced hardware architecture and offer the highest performance of any currently available core switches. The CE12800 provides as much as 64 Tbit/s switching capacity and high-density line-speed ports. Each switch has up to 128*100GE, 384*40GE, or 1536*10GE. The CE12800 switches use an industry-leading Clos architecture and a front-to-rear ventilation channel design to provide industrial-grade reliability. The switches also provide comprehensive virtualization capabilities and abundant data center service features. Moreover, the CE12800 switches use innovative energy-saving technologies to greatly reduce power consumption. 1
The CE12800 is available in four models: CE12816, CE12812, CE12808, and CE12804. The CE12800 series uses interchangeable components to reduce costs on spare parts. This design ensures device scalability and protects customers' investment. CE12804 CE12808 CE12812 CE12816 CE6800 Series The CE6800 switches provide high-density 10GE access in data centers and can also be used as core or aggregation switches on campus networks. The CE6800 series' advanced hardware architecture design supports the highest density of 10GE access ports in the industry and provides 40GE uplink ports. These switches support abundant data center service features and high stacking capability. In addition, air flow direction is changeable in ventilation channels (front-to-rear or rear-to-front). The CE6800 comes in two models: the 48S4Q model providing 10GE optical access ports and the 48T4Q model providing 10GE electrical access ports. Each switch has 48*10GE ports (optical or electrical) and 4*40GE QSFP+ ports. Each QSFP+ port can be used as 4*10GE ports. These ports provide L2/L3 line-speed forwarding. CE6850-48S4Q-EI CE6850-48T4Q-EI 2
CE5800 Series The CE5800 switches provide high-density GE access in data centers and can also be used as aggregation or access switches on campus networks. The CE5800 series switches were the first in the industry to provide 40GE uplink ports, and the advanced hardware architecture supports the industry's highest density of GE access ports. The CE5800 supports a wide range of data center service features and high stacking capability. In addition, air flow direction is changeable in ventilation channels (front-to-rear or rear-to-front). The CE5800 comes in three models: CE5850-48T4S2Q-EI, CE5810-48T4S-EI and CE5810-24T4S-EI. The CE5850-48T4S2Q-EI has 48 line-speed GE ports, 4*10GE SFP+ ports, and 2*40GE QSFP+ ports. These ports provide L2/L3 line-speed forwarding. CE5850-48T4S2Q-EI The CE5810-48T4S-EI has 48*GE ports and 4*10GE SFP+ ports. These ports provide L2/L3 line-speed forwarding. CE5810-48T4S-EI The CE5810-24T4S-EI has 24*GE ports and 4*10GE SFP+ ports. These ports provide L2/L3 line-speed forwarding. CE5810-24T4S-EI Product and Solution Advantages The CE series switches help enterprises and carriers build a 960 Tbit/s non-blocking switching platform that provides access to tens of thousands of 10GE/GE servers. This platform has three major advantages: elastic fabric, virtualized fabric, and high-quality fabric. Elastic Fabric Elastic network to support business growth and development for the next 10 years: CE switches can implement a 960 Tbit/s non-blocking switching network that supports data center server evolution across four generations (from GE, 10GE, 40GE, and finally to 100GE). With this nonblocking switching platform, customers do not need to frequently upgrade their networks to meet requirements for 40GE access or even 100GE access. 3
Highest-performance core switch in the world: The CE12800 provides 2 Tbit/s bandwidth (unidirectional) per slot (scalable to 4 Tbit/s) and 64 Tbit/s switching capacity (scalable to more than 128 Tbit/s). The CE12800 supports a variety of high-speed line cards including 8*100GE and 24*40GE/96*10GE line cards. Each switch can provide as many as 128*100GE, 384*40GE, or 1536*10GE line-speed ports. The high capacity and port density make the CE12800 an industry leader. Large capacity, for 10 years 4 generations severs lifecycle Flexible scalability, builds customized solution for enterprise N0.1 Core switch performance 4 Core switches 40G TOR uplink 3 Fabrics Types 18,000+ 10GE servers access 18 years stable software platform-vrp Multi TOR access 40GE uplink ports on all top-of-rack (ToR) switches: The CE6800 and CE5800 provide super-high densities of 10GE and GE access ports. The entire CE6800/5800 series provides 40GE uplink ports with the highest forwarding performance in the industry. Largest cloud-computing network platform in the industry: The CE12800 series can implement a 960 Tbit/s non-blocking switching network that uses a distributed buffering mechanism on inbound interfaces to support computing in super-large 10GE server clusters. Highest server access capability in the industry: Using a 2-layer flat network architecture consisting of core switches and ToR access switches, the CE12800 can combine with the CE6800/5800 using 40GE interfaces to build a network that provides access for up to 18,000 10GE servers or 70,000 GE servers, leading the world in server access. Core ToR Access Capability to support large scale server access: 18,000+10GE servers or 70,000+ GE servers 4
Virtualized Fabric Comprehensive network virtualization capabilities: The CE series uses Virtual System (VS) and Cluster Switch System/intelligent Stack (CSS/iStack) technologies to flexibly adjust network boundaries, meeting requirements for network virtualization. The switches use Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) and ncenter technologies to support service virtualization and server virtualization. VS for on-demand resource sharing: The CE12800 provides a virtualization capability of 1:8, so one switch can be virtualized into as many as eight logical switches. This capability allows one core switch to manage services for multiple parts of an enterprise (such as production, office, and DMZ) or for multiple tenants. VS technology improves device usage efficiency and reduces network construction costs while maintaining high security. VS (Virtual System) CSS (Cluster Switch System) Campus Office CE12800 Production DMZ Sale CE6800/5800 CE12800 CSS/iStack to simplify network management: The entire CE series supports CSS/iStack, which can virtualize multiple physical switches into one logical switch to simplify network management and improve network reliability. The CE12800 series has an industry-leading clustering capability. Four CE12800 core switches can form a cluster. The CE6800/5800 series also supports a large stack of up to 16 switches. Innovative CSS+VS synergy technology: The CE12800 combines CSS and VS technologies to turn a network into a resource pool so that network resources can be allocated on demand. This ondemand resource allocation is ideal for the cloud-computing service model. Large-scale routing bridge to support flexible service deployment: All CE series switches support TRILL, a standard IETF protocol. The TRILL protocol helps implement a large Layer 2 network with more than 500 nodes. This network allows flexible service deployment and VM migration, free from restrictions imposed by physical locations. 10GE/GE servers can be used on a TRILL network. VM VM VM VM VM VM TRILL:VMs migrate in large layer 2 network 5
ncenter to allow automatic migration of VMs: ncenter is an automated management system for virtualized data centers. It automatically delivers network configurations to devices when VMs migrate. Additionally, ncenter provides high-speed RADIUS interfaces to increase the VM migration speed to 10-20 times the industry average. ncenter: Network policy management TOR TOR Radius Auto Network deployment Open API VMs Migration VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Management High-Quality Fabric High-reliability network designed for data centers: The CE12800 provides industrial-grade reliability and uses a redundant design for both hardware and software to ensure service continuity in data centers. The CE12800's industry-leading non-blocking switching architecture has five features, which ensure non-stop services. Additionally, the CE series switches can implement a lossless, lowlatency Ethernet network, which provides unified, lossless transmission for high-value services. Non-stop Switching Core Non-blocking Switching Fabric Lossless Switching Network Full System hot backup system backup architecture Five Zero features Non-stop services during switching packet loss Switching Main Control NSR NSF Monitor Power Fan NSU NSP NSB Five hardware components hot-backup, all system buses redundancy, strictly N+N dual power input NSR: 1 million routes recovery in 5s, performance 2x industry standard Orthogonal design, improves bandwidth, scalable system Dynamic CLOS architecture, load balancing Cell exchange, improves fabric utilization VoQ scheduling, fabric schedules in order 12GB large buffer, burst traffic non-blocking forwarding DCB: storage service lossless forwarding 2us low latency: forwarding efficiency 2x industry standard 6
Non-stop switching core to support service continuity: The CE12800's five types of components (including MPUs, SFUs, CMUs, power supplies, and fans) use a hot backup design. Three types of major buses (monitoring buses, management buses, and data buses) work in redundant mode, ensuring super-high reliability of core nodes. Using Huawei's next-generation VRP8 software platform, the CE12800 supports non-stop anything (NSA) technologies, ensuring continuity of services during service switching. Non-blocking switching architecture to ensure non-stop services: The CE12800's non-blocking switching architecture features an orthogonal switch fabric design, Clos architecture, cell switching, Virtual Output Queuing (VoQ), and super-large buffer. The orthogonal switch fabric greatly improves system bandwidth and evolution capabilities and enables the switching capacity to scale to more than 100 Tbit/s. The cell-switching-based Clos architecture supports dynamic routing, implements load balancing, and allows flexible switch fabric expansion. The VoQ mechanism together with the super-large buffer on inbound interfaces (as much as 12 GB per line card) provides fine-grained QoS, ensures unified service scheduling and sequenced forwarding, and implements nonblocking switching. Lossless switching network to ensure unified service transmission: The CE series supports Data Center Bridging (DCB) to ensure low latency and zero packet loss for the fiber channel (FC) storage services and highspeed computing services. The CE12800 core switch has 2 µs latency, one third of the industry average, making the CE12800 appropriate for latency-sensitive, high-value services such as online video and games. The CE series can implement a lossless, low-latency Ethernet network to transmit storage services, computing services, and data services, reducing costs of network construction and maintenance. Why Huawei? Huawei has 20 years of experiences in the IP field and offers the largest data center product portfolio in the industry. Huawei's end-to-end data center solutions cover network infrastructure, disaster recovery, security, and network management. Huawei data center products and solutions have been widely used in large enterprises, vertical industries, Internet corporations, and carrier networks. As a world-leading network solution provider, Huawei has a long-term plan for data center network development and a firm determination to invest in the data center field for the long run. To support this determination, Huawei has extensive research capabilities, with world-class experts, rich experience in the research and development of data center standards, and broad chip development capabilities. The CE series switches and Cloud Fabric network solution are products of Huawei's deep experience in working with IP networks during the last decade. They enable customers to build next-generation data center cloud networks that support sustainable development of cloud services into the foreseeable future. Copyright Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written consent of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Trademark Notice, HUAWEI, and are trademarks or registered trademarks of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Other trademarks, product, service and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. General Disclaimer The information in this document may contain predictive statements including, without limitation, statements regarding the future financial and operating results, future product portfolio, new technology, etc. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the predictive statements. Therefore, such information is provided for reference purpose only and constitutes neither an offer nor an acceptance. Huawei may change the information at any time without notice.