HUAWEI NE40E Core Router NE40E-X8

Introduction

The NetEngine40E series universal service router (NE40E) is a family of high-end network products that are usually deployed at the edges of Internet Protocol (IP) backbone networks, IP Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), and other large-scale IP networks. The NE40E, NE80E, and NE5000E together provide a complete, layered IP network solution.
The NE40E can be flexibly deployed at the edge or core of IP or MPLS networks, simplifying the network structure. With its ability to provide an extensive range of services with reliable service quality, the NE40E is enabling IP and MPLS bearer networks to develop greater broadband capacity and to become more secure, intelligent, and service-oriented. Based on distributed hardware forwarding and non-blocking switching technologies, the NE40E features line-rate forwarding capability, a well designed Quality of Service (QoS) mechanism, strong service processing capability, and excellent expansibility. The NE40E is based on a 400G platform and provides 100G line cards to satisfy increased demand for bandwidth. NE40E has the ability to support virtualization, multiple devices can be virtualized into a single device. Compatible with all line cards currently in use, the NE40E minimizes the need for additional investments.
The NE40E series, including NE40E-X16, NE40E-X8 and NE40E-X3, are suitable for networks of different scales.

Product Highlights

Enhanced IPTV Service Functions

The NE40E has a built-in video caching, providing users with a smooth IPTV experience. Based on fast channel change (FCC), retransmission request (RET) and inline real-time stream monitoring, the NE40E can improve the user experience , optimize operations, administration and monitoring (OAM), save bandwidth resources, and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the entire network.

Enhanced User Management Functions

The NE40E provides Multi Service Edge (MSE) features to manage and control DHCP/IP over Ethernet (IPoE)/leased line access users. The MSE provides dynamic user access, user management, and user-based authentication, accounting, and QoS scheduling. In addition, the MSE implements Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) for enterprise services and individual DHCP users.

Future-Oriented IPv6-Compatible Solutions

The NE40E supports a variety of IPv6 features including IPv6 leased line, dual stack, tunneling, and translation. The NE40E also supports Next Hop Separation to optimize the IPv6 convergence time and larger IPv6 FIB to improve scalability. These features help provide a comprehensive IPV6 solution while ensuring a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6.

Multi-Level Reliability

The NE40E provides reliability features at the equipment network, and service levels. The NE40E can cope with various kinds of network failures to ensure service recovery and provides carrier-class system availability of 99.999%.

• Equipment-level reliability: The NE40E provides redundancy backup for key components. These components support hot swapping and hot backup. The NE40E also makes use of Non-Stop Routing (NSR), Non-Stop Forwarding (NSF), In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) and other technologies to improve services recovery and ensure uninterrupted service forwarding.

• Network-level reliability: The NE40E supports IP/Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)/ VPN/ TE Fast Reroute (FRR), hot-standby, fast convergence of Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs), BGP and multicast routing, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), Rapid Ring Protection Protocol (RRPP), trunk link backup, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), MPLS/Ethernet Operation Administration, and Maintenance (OAM), and routing protocol/port/VLAN damping technologies to ensure the stability of the whole network. The NE40E provides an end-to-end network protection solution that can guarantee service recovery within 200ms in the event of a failure.

• Service-level reliability: The VPN FRR, E-VRRP, VLL FRR, Ethernet OAM, Y.1731, PW redundancy, E-Trunk, and E-Automatic Protection Switching (APS) technologies provided by the NE40E can be applied to L3VPN and L2VPN networking solutions. These provide service-level redundancies to ensure the stable and reliable delivery of services and to ensure continuous service forwarding.

Energy Saving Design

The environmentally friendly design of the NE40E saves energy and reduces emissions. The NE40E has an industry-leading cooling and energy-saving system which includes advanced ventilation and optimal heat dissipation design, intelligent fans, and a design for power supply distribution. By automatically sensing and adjusting temperature, the NE40E improves power supply utilization, making it an outstanding energy saver.

Enhanced Metro Ethernet Features

Based on Huawei's mature Versatile Routing Platform (VRP), the NE40E excels in reliability, expansibility, and maintainability. The NE40E is an ideal platform for operators to build up carrier-class MANs. It supports various features to satisfy the requirement of carrying multi-services including Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service (HVPLS), Virtual Leased Line (VLL), Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN), Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN), multicast VPN, 802.1Q-in-802.1Q (QinQ), Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) mapping, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server/replay/snooping, IPSec, NAT and GRE. NE40E supports Protocol Independent Multicast-Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM), Internet Group Membership Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3), and MAC+IP+VLAN user binding. On the carrier-class MANs based on the NE40E, operators can provide Internet broadband access services, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services, family multi-play services, IP leased line services, enterprise interconnection services, and enterprise VPN services.

In addition, the NE40E supports comprehensive Ethernet clock synchronization, which allows for carrier-class Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) service development in the MAN.

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