Huawei Switches provide Enterprise and Carrier class solutions

Posted on 05 March 2012 by Miercom

In recent tests of seven series of Huawei switches, Miercom was impressed with the high performance, large capacity, interoperability and high availability of the Huawei products. Having resiliency, energy efficiency, and low latency, the switches met the required criteria to achieve the Miercom Performance Verified Award. Our findings and reports are given here: :

S1700 Series

• S1700-28GFR-4P-AC switch provides one-button operation for system recovery, upgrade and information collection to streamline administration
• Interoperability proven through tests with other vendor switches
• Advanced features supported include DoS attack prevention, anti-worm function, IP and MAC source guard, and VCT
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) is supported, resulting in up to 30% power savings
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S7700 Series

• Huawei S7706 core aggregation switch has high availability providing resiliency for enterprise environments
• Smart Ethernet Protection (SEP) allows optional security enhancements
• Interoperable with switches from other manufacturers
• Hot swappable power and fan modules and backup routing units
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S9300 Series

• Huawei S9306 switch supports patented Cluster Switching System (CSS) technology for high availability
• Smart Ethernet Protection (SEP) protocol is supported with highly advanced capabilities
• Low forwarding latency of 10G port at full load
• Proven interoperability in tests with other vendor switches
• Supports hot swapping for power and fan modules as well as backup routing units
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S5700-EI Series

• Huawei S5700-52C-PWR-EI enterprise switch has IPv6 migration support that includes dual-stack and IPv6 to IPv4 tunneling for increased flexibility
• Supports PoE+, supplying 30W of power to endpoint devices from multiple vendors
• Interoperable with many proprietary protocols used by multiple vendors
• Clustering supports 48Gbps throughput and nine devices in a single cluster
• Batch updating allows software upgrades en masse to switches
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S2700-EI Series

• Huawei S2700-EI is resilient and robust to meet enterprise reliability requirements
• High performing throughput capabilities
• Exceptionally large capacity for ACL, MAC address, and VLAN
• QoS capabilities allow prioritization and full functionality, even under heavy load
• Proven interoperability in tests with other vendor switches
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S5700-LI Series

• Huawei S5700-52P-LI enterprise switch has IPv6 migration support that includes dual-stack and IPv6 to IPv4 tunneling for increased flexibility
• Unique Dying Gasp feature provides immediate notification of switch failure with SNMP
• Interoperable with high granularity protocols and multiple vendors
• iStack bandwidth shows 5Gbps throughput
• Batch updating allows software upgrades en masse to switches
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S6700-EI Series

• Huawei S6700-EI switches, with up to 48 10GE ports, provide high performance for aggregation, enterprise core and data center environments
• S6700-EI supports iStack technology with bidirectional bandwidth of 160GB, for up to nine devices
• Smart Ethernet Protection (SEP) protocol delivers fault convergence in under 50ms for ring networks
• Proven interoperable with other vendor protocols
• Under heavy load, 10G port demonstrates very low latency
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