H3C S6550X-HI series multi-channel Ethernet optical switch
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch is a high bandwidth Ethernet switch product independently developed by H3C. It supports H3C's multi-channel Ethernet optical solution, provides ultra large switching capacity, high-density 40GE/100GE forwarding ports, supports pluggable power supplies and fans, and has rich three-layer features.
The H3C S6550X-HI series is positioned as the next generation of core/aggregation high-density high bandwidth switches, providing 40G/100G interconnect interfaces and using multi-channel transparent aggregation devices to achieve 10G/25G to the terminal, with dedicated bandwidth and passive aggregation.
The H3C S6550X-HI series multi-channel switch currently includes the following models:
H3C S6550X-32H-HI: 32 40G/100G QSFP28 ports, 1 expansion slot, 2 power slots, 4 fan slots
H3C S6550X-32Q-HI: 28 40G QSFP+ports, 4 40G/100G QSFP28 ports, 1 expansion slot, 2 power slots, 4 fan slots
Product Features
Comware V9
Comware is a network operating system independently developed by H3C for network devices, which includes rich network functions and supports a full range of network devices from parks to data centers, from enterprise level to operator level. Comware not only breaks the monopoly of multinational corporations and open source communities, but also drives the rapid development of national infrastructure networks, with broad application prospects and important strategic significance.
On the basis of Comware V7, Comware V9 has upgraded and adjusted its architecture to better adapt to the current development trend of network operating systems, targeting requirements such as openness, containerization, programmability, and visualization.
Comware V9 has the following advantages:
Using the native Linux kernel, the functionality of Comware V9 is fully implemented in user mode, making it easy to upgrade the kernel version.
• Support containerization, publish Comware in the form of containers, and deploy containers to run third-party applications on devices running Comware V9 to enhance the openness of Comware.
Deepen the modular design concept, so that businesses are independent of each other and can be deployed independently, or a certain software function of Comware can be released in the form of independent software.
Fully consider the requirements of virtualization products in terms of architecture, achieve lightweight support architecture, and make the deployment of virtualization products more flexible and efficient.
Multi channel Ethernet optical scheme
Multi channel Ethernet optical technology is a technology based on the standard Ethernet protocol that improves the transmission speed of optical modules through parallel transmission of multiple channels. It is widely used in standard optical modules such as 40G and 100G. New H3C adopts this standard technology to construct a multi-channel Ethernet optical solution through single fiber optic, multi-channel parallel, and 1:1 lossless transmission.
• Passive convergence: using passive splitters, no power supply required, more flexible deployment location
Ultra high density access: The high-speed 40G/100G interface can support 4 10G/25G terminal access, and the whole machine can support up to 120 terminal access
Single fiber deployment: Both the central optical module and the access optical module use single fiber access, reducing wiring complexity and saving construction costs
Port blind insertion: The access optical module supports blind insertion of ports within the group, without the need for one-to-one correspondence
VxLAN features
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch supports VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN). VXLAN encapsulates data packets sent by virtual machines in UDP and uses the IP/MAC of the physical network as the outer header for transmission over the physical IP network. Upon arrival at the destination, the packet is unblocked by the tunnel endpoint and sent to the target virtual machine, solving the problem of long-distance virtual machine migration between geographically dispersed data centers. It supports EVPN mode. The H3C S6550X-HI series switches are compatible with H3C AD Ampus solutions.
IRF2 (Second Generation Intelligent Elastic Architecture)
The S6550X-HI series switch supports IRF2 (second-generation intelligent resilient architecture) technology, virtualizing multiple devices (up to 4) into one logical device. It has strong advantages in scalability, reliability, overall architecture, and availability, mainly reflected in four aspects:
Scalability: IRF2 technology allows switches to expand multiple devices using interconnect cables; It has the advantages of plug and play, single IP management, and synchronous upgrading, while greatly reducing the cost of system expansion.
Reliability: Through routing hot backup technology, redundant backup and uninterrupted three-layer forwarding of all information in the control plane and data plane are achieved throughout the entire IRF group, greatly enhancing the reliability and high performance of the IRF group, while eliminating single points of failure and avoiding business interruption.
Distributed: By using distributed link aggregation technology, multiple uplink links can share the load and backup each other, thereby improving the redundancy of the entire network architecture and the utilization of link resources.
• Availability: The intelligent elastic architecture is implemented through a standard 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface, which can allocate business bandwidth and system connection bandwidth according to demand, and allocate local and upstream traffic reasonably; Not only can it achieve intelligent and elastic architecture within racks, across racks, and even across regions over long distances.
SmartMC (Intelligent Management Center)
With the increase of network scale, a large number of access devices are required at the network edge, which makes the management of these devices very cumbersome. The main purpose of SmartMC is to solve the centralized management problem of a large number of dispersed network devices. Intended to solve the operation and maintenance tasks of small businesses mainly focused on switches. SmartMC achieves unified operation, maintenance, and management of networks through built-in devices and graphical operations
SmartMC simplifies the operation, maintenance, and management of small and medium-sized industrial parks through its four major business segments:
• Intelligent management:
Mainly includes device role selection, FTP server configuration, global configuration, and network management port configuration, etc
Intelligent operation and maintenance:
Mainly includes group management, device or group upgrade backup, monitoring, and device failure replacement, etc
• Visualization:
Mainly includes network topology visualization and management, device list display, etc
Intelligent business:
Mainly including user management: After creating network access users and successfully activating them, these users can access the internal SmartMC network through a one click armed port.
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch is equipped with SmartMC, which enables vertical virtualization and unified management.
Multi business integration
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch is based on H3C's Open Service Architecture (OAA), which not only provides the functions of traditional switches, but also integrates security module cards such as FW, IPS, load balancing, Eagle Vision scanner cards, mini iMC cards, etc., making the S6550X-HI series switch a converged multi service carrier platform.
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch supports high-performance converged AC functionality, which can manage a large number of wireless APs, saving users the cost of additional AC equipment and achieving integrated wired and wireless management.
Highly available M-LAG architecture
The H3C S6550X-HI series switches support M-LAG (MultichassisLinkAggregationGroup) cross device link aggregation technology (formerly DRNI technology), which achieves cross device link aggregation by virtualizing two physical devices as one device at the forwarding layer, maintaining control layer independence and improving device level reliability.
M-LAG decouples the control plane from the data plane, and each node device can be independently upgraded to ensure zero interruption of user business.
The dual active access of the device provides device level redundancy protection and traffic load sharing, while improving system reliability.
Suitable for overlay and traditional underlay scenarios, with flexible networking.
A comprehensive security control strategy
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch supports AAA, Radius authentication, and supports user accounts IP、MAC、VLAN、 Dynamic or static binding of user identification elements such as ports; Support real-time management of online users in collaboration with H3C's iMC platform, enabling timely diagnosis and dismantling of illegal online activities.
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch provides enhanced ACL control logic, supports large capacity inbound and outbound port ACLs, and supports VLAN based ACL issuance, simplifying the user configuration process while avoiding wastage of ACL resources.
H3C S6550X-HI series switches support secure boot, performing security checks on system components during the boot process to prevent system data and signatures from being counterfeited and tampered with, ensuring the correctness and completeness of system data, and achieving secure and trustworthy device boot.
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch is equipped with a TPM chip, which supports trusted computing function and ensures that the device software runs as expected during operation, avoiding intrusion and tampering.
Multiple reliability protection
The H3C S6550X-HI series switches also have multiple reliability protections at the device level and link level. Adopting overcurrent protection, overvoltage protection, and overheat protection technologies.
Plug in power supplies and fans improve the hardware reliability of the device. H3C S6550X-HI series supports modular power supply and fan components; The interface board and power module of all models can be hot plugged without affecting the normal operation of the equipment. In addition, the whole machine also supports fault detection and alarm of power supply and fan, and can automatically adjust the fan speed according to temperature changes.
Support hardware level dual boot, using two FLASH chips to store boot software (system boot program), achieving hardware level boot redundancy backup, avoiding switch failure caused by FLASH chip failure.
• Supports ERPS Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (G.8032) protocol, which is a highly reliable and stable link layer technology for Ethernet ring networks, capable of achieving millisecond level fast protection switching.
Excellent management skills
The H3C S6550X-HI series switch supports a variety of management interfaces, such as Console, external network ports, USB ports, supports SNMP v1/V2/v3, and supports iMC intelligent management center. Support CLI command line, TELNET and FTP configuration, support OAM for easier device management, and support SSH 2.0, SSL and other encryption methods for more secure management.
Green and energy-saving design
The H3C S6550X-HI series switches adopt new energy-saving chips and innovative architecture design solutions to reduce switch power consumption and respond to the "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" strategic call.
The H3C S6550X-HI series switches meet the EU RoHS standards for material environmental protection and safety.