Huawei NetEngine 8000 X-Series Router With 19.2T Line Processing Unit (LPU) Performance, Advanced Functionality and Security Feature Test
EANTC independently evaluated the performance, service scalability, and energy efficiency of the new Huawei 19.2 Terabit/s line card for the NetEngine 8000 X-series routers. We found that the 19.2T line card lives up to the expectations of its name – it supports a staggering 19.2 Terabit/second line rate throughput across its high-density configuration with 36x 400GigabitEthernet ports and 6x 800GigabitEthernet ports. It takes less than 2,200 Watt electrical energy while running at full load across all ports.
Significant energy savings were identified in crucial network infrastructure components in the test. The results showed that using SFU warm-backup achieved an energy saving of 66 W. Additionally, employing slice sleep mode on 4T LPUs achieved an additional saving of 220 W per unit. These results highlight the effectiveness of new backup and sleep configurations in optimizing energy consumption, which is essential for enhancing operational efficiency in modern telecommunications networks.
In our test, the NE8000 router and the 19.2T line card exhibited versatile feature support of Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) with compressed segment IDs (SIDs), Ethernet VPN services, interworking with legacy MPLS services, and more. We witnessed large-scale routing and forwarding database (RIB/FIB) support, and robust protection against BGP peering overload.
Finally, EANTC validated extensive security functions of the NetEngine 8000 software, protecting the router’s management interface and routing protocols (BGP, ISIS, OSPF) from intrusions and denial of service attacks.
The 19.2T line card marks another milestone in Huawei’s series of line processing units (LPUs) for the NetEngine 8000 X-series router family, well combining performance, energy efficiency, service scalability, extensive feature support and security functions.