Huawei Cloud Fabric Solution Key Features

 Huawei cloud fabric solution helps enterprises and carriers build a 360 Tbit/s non-blocking switching platform that provides access to tens of thousands of 10GE/GE servers. This platform has three major advantages: scalable fabric, virtualized fabric, and converged fabric.

Scalable Fabric

Scalable network to support development for the next 10 years: CloudEngine switches can be used to build a 360 Tbit/s non-blocking switching network that supports the evolution of four generations of servers (from GE/10GE to 40GE/100GE). With this non-blocking switching platform, customers do not need to upgrade their networks to meet requirements for 40GE access or even 100GE access as frequently as before.

Highest performance core switch in the world: The CE12800 provides 2Tbps bandwidth(unidirectional) per slot(scalable to 4Tbps in the future) and 48 Tbps of switching capacity. It supports various high-speed line cards including 8*100GE, 24*40GE, and 96*10GE line cards. One switch can provide a maximum of 96*100GE and 288*40GE full-line-speed ports or 1152*10GE full-line-speed ports. The large capacity and high port density make the CE12800 an industry leader.

40GE uplink ports on all TOR switches in the whole series: CE6800 and CE5800 provide super high densities of 10GE and GE access ports. All of the TOR switches across the whole CE6800/5800 series provide 40GE uplink ports for the highest forwarding performance in the industry.

Non-blocking CLOS architecture: CE12800 core switches use a non-blocking CLOS architecture and dynamic distributed buffering technology (100 ms per port). These technologies can handle incast traffic resulting from cloud computing applications such as search service and parallel computing, ensuring zero packet loss during service transmission.

Highly reliable redundancy design: The CloudEngine series has a high rate of reliability to ensure nonstop service transmission. All key components of the CE12800, including the main control units, switch fabric units, power modules, and fans, work in redundancy mode. CE6800/5800 switches also have hot swappable power modules and fans working in redundancy mode.

Strict front-to-rear ventilation channel design: The whole CloudEngine series uses a front-to-rear ventilation channel design, which is the most appropriate for data center equipment rooms. This design separates cold air flows from hot air flows to improve heat dissipation efficiency.

Virtualized Fabric

Comprehensive network virtualization capabilities: 1. The CloudEngine series uses Virtual System (VS) and Cluster Switch System/intelligent Stack (CSS/iStack) technologies to flexibly adjust network boundaries, meeting requirements for network virtualization. 2. The CloudEngine series uses Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links (TRILL) and nCenter technologies to support service virtualization and server virtualization.

VS to achieve on-demand resource sharing: The CE12800 uses VS technology to provide an industry-leading virtualization capability of 1:8. One switch can be virtualized into a maximum of eight logical switches, allowing one core switch to manage services of different areas (such as production area, office area, and DMZ) or multiple tenants. VS technology improves device usage efficiency and reduces network construction costs while maintaining a high level of security.

CSS/iStack to simplify network management: The whole CloudEngine 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, wherein four CE12800 core switches can form a cluster. The CE6800/5800 series 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 on-demand resource allocation is perfect for the cloud computing service model.

Large-scale routing bridge to support flexible service deployment: All CloudEngine series switches support TRILL, a standard IETF protocol. The TRILL protocol helps build a large Layer 2 network with more than 500 nodes, which allows flexible service deployment and VM migration in a wide range. 10GE/GE servers can also be used on a TRILL network.

nCenter to allow auto 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.

Converged Fabric

Converged network to reduce TCO: The CloudEngine series supports FCoE, which enables a single network to provide storage, data, and computing services, reducing network construction and maintenance costs.

Centralized FC gateway deployment to facilitate O&M: In centralized FC gateway deployment, the Ethernet network is compatible with the FC SAN network, but Ethernet access devices do not participate in computing of the FC protocol. Centralized FC gateway deployment makes network O&M simpler.

Low latency and zero packet loss: The CloudEngine series supports Data Center Bridging (DCB) to ensure low latency and zero packet loss for the FC storage service and high-speed computing service.