Huawei Technologies engaged Miercom to evaluate several series of enterprise routers for performance and reliability. Continue Reading

• 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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• 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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• 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 Cisco switches

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor 7L-E offers high performance, consistently low latency, Flexible NetFlow and Wireshark capabilities along with UPOE, making it an ideal platform for campus access networks.

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Maintaining high voice and video capacity without loss of QoS, Avaya WLAN 8100 supports 26% more 802.11a voice calls, 20% more 802.11g voice calls, and 31% more 802.11n unicast video streams than the competitive average.

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