Quidway NetEngine 40 Series Universal Switching Router System Architecture

Quidway NetEngine 40 Series Universal Switching Router System Architecture

Overview
The Quidway NetEngine 40 universal switching router (USR) series (abbreviated as NE40) are the fifth generation of Huawei proprietary high-end routers, which features excellent processing capability, abundant interfaces and services. This series are high-end network products oriented to large-scale enterprise networks, IP MANs and IP backbone networks. NE40-8, NE40-4 and NE40-2 comprise the NE40. Number of interface Model board slots NE40-8 NE40-4 NE40-2 8 4 2 Switching capacity 128 Gbps 128 Gbps 16 Gbps Forwarding performance 48 Mpps 24 Mpps 12 Mpps

Based on the 2.5 G NP platform, the NE40 provides high-density Ethernet interfaces, leased line interfaces and low-speed interfaces. It supports line boards and service interfaces at a rate ranging from 64 Kbps to 2.5 Gbps.

Architecture
Based on distributed forwarding architecture, the NE40 is designed with high-performance network processor in the telecom industry. NE40 is a universal switching router (USR). As an enhancement of the core router, it is packed with features of the L3 switch, powerful processing capability and L2 features. All of these add up to a product of high price-to-performance ratio.

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Quidway NetEngine 40 Series Universal Switching Router System Architecture

Hardware architecture of the NE40 The NE40 is made up of Route Switching Unit (SRU) and various types of Line Processing Units (LPUs). Key components of the NE40 include route processing system, switching fabric system, clock system, power module and management bus. They are all designed with redundancy, which contributes to high system reliability. The interface types of LPUs include Ethernet, E1/CE1, E3/T3, POS, CPOS, ATM, RPR and NAT. The entire system is divided into three logical planes of forwarding plane, control plane and monitoring plane. Forwarding is independent from control, and routing is irrelevant to switching. The data plane completes high-speed data packet processing and internal non-blocking switching, statistics. The control and management plane completes system control and management functions. It is the nerve center of the entire system. The control and management unit completes functions such as protocol and signaling processing, system status configuration and maintenance management as well as system status reporting and control. The monitoring plane independently completes system environment monitoring, including voltage detection, system power on/off control, temperature detection and fan control to ensure the safe and stable operation of the system. It isolates the fault in time when a unit is faulty, thus guaranteeing the normal operation of the other system components. including packet encapsulation/decapsulation, IPv4/MPLS forwarding processing, QoS and packet scheduling, internal high speed switching and various

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