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1. Product Overview

Based on distributed hardware forwarding and nonblocking switching technologies, the NE80E features
carrier-class reliability, line-rate forwarding capability, a
well-designed Quality of Service (QoS) mechanism, strong
service-processing capability, and excellent expansibility.
The NE80E has the strong IP service processing
capabilities that are required by core routers and supports
Layer 2 Ethernet switching. It supports extensive IP edge
services and features, including Ethernet switching and
processing, Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual
Private Network (VPN), tunneling, and ow queues. The
NE80E also supports abundant clock technologies and
smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6. The NE80E is driving
IP backbone networks and MANs to develop greater
broadband capacity, and to become more secure and
more service-oriented.

2. Product Highlights
Fifth-Generation Distributed Router
The NE80E is a fth generation router that has
the following advantages:
Uses industry-leading high-performance
network processor technology.
Inherits fourth-generation distributed
hardware processing architecture.
Integrates software exibility and hardware
high performance.
Provides line-rate forwarding capability, fast
service upgrade capability, and excellent
scalability.
Helps carriers obtain a top return on
investment.
Acts as an important driving force for IP
networks to develop greater broadband
capacity, and become more secure, more
intelligent, and more service-oriented.
Powerful Routing and Forwarding
Capabilities

The NE80E supports IP/MPLS distributed

forwarding and has powerful routing
capabilities. It supports super large routing
tables and provides Routing Information
Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First
(OSPF), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate
System (IS-IS), Border Gateway Protocol 4
(BGP-4), and multicast routing protocols. The
NE80E supports plain text authentication and
encrypted text authentication, as well as fast
convergence. These NE80E features ensure
network stability and security in complicated
routing environments. Therefore, the NE80E is
applicable to IP backbone networks.
The NE80E supports full-duplex line-rate
forwarding on all interfaces and provides IP/
MPLS packet forwarding performance of 1600
Mpps. It satises the requirements for core
nodes with a high volume of trafc and a large
number of routes on bearer networks.
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NE80E

NetEngine 40E Universal Service Router

The NetEngine 80E core router (NE80E) is a high-end

network product provided by Huawei Technologies Co.,
Ltd.. NE80Es are usually used as core routers on Internet
Protocol (IP) backbone networks, IP Metropolitan Area
Networks (MANs), and other large-scale IP networks.

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Extensive Services
The NE80E provides various features and
powerful service processing capabilities, thus
satisfying the service deployment requirements
of IP or MPLS core backbone networks and
backbone networks.
The NE80E supports VPN services. The Layer
2 VPN (L2VPN), Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN), and
multicast VPN (MVPN) can be all deployed
on the NE80E depending on networking
requirements. Trafc engineering (TE) can also
be congured at the same time. The NE80E
supports multiple access modes, including
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Inverse
Multiplexing over ATM (IMA) E1, Time-Division
Multiplexing (TDM), Packet over SONET (POS),
and Ethernet. It supports selective 802.1Q-in802.1Q (QinQ), Dynamic Host Conguration
Protocol (DHCP), and IP over Ethernet (IPoE).
Because the NE80E is suitable to access both
traditional services and newly emerging
services, it satises the needs of rich multiple
service environments.
The NE80E has powerful expandable
multicast capabilities with support for IPv4/
IPv6 multicast protocols such as Protocol
Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIMSM), PIM - Dense Mode (PIM-DM), PIM Source Specic Multicast (PIM-SSM), Multicast
Listener Discovery Version 1 (MLDv1)/v2,
Embedded Rendezvous Point (RP), Internet
Group Membership Protocol Version 3
(IGMPv3), multicast Call Admission Control
(CAC), and IGMP snooping. The NE80E has
the exibility to carry video services such as
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services and
satisfy the requirements for multicast services
on networks of any scale.
The NE80E supports carrier-class Wireless
Local Area Network (WLAN) services. With
a built-in Access Controller (AC), the NE80E
can manage Access Points (APs) and perform
carrier-class authentication and accounting on
users that log in through WLAN. This greatly
enriches the variety of wireless service delivery
modes available to operators, reduces the
cost of operating wireless services, and helps
operators improve the quality of services. This
makes WLAN an important supplement to
2G/3G network access modes.

The NE80E also provides enhanced Network

Address Translation (NAT), including Port
Address Translation (PAT), NoPAT, internal
server NAT, NAT Application Level Gateway
(ALG), destination address translation of
service packets, and NAT E-Log.
Enhanced Video Functions
The NE80E has a built-in video caching
function, providing users with a smooth IPTV
user experience. With the Versatile Service
Unit (VSU-10), the NE80E caches the most
important I-frames within the video frames,
and reduces switchover time between High
Denition Television (HDTV) channels to less
than 0.5 second. Retransmission (RET) ensures
smooth playing of programs even in the case
of 10% packet loss. With video caching, the
NE80E can save bandwidth resources and
reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) over
the entire network. Working with the NMS,
inline Real-time Stream Monitoring (iRSM) can
provide real-time video monitoring for fast,
accurate fault location.
Well-designed QoS Mechanism
The NE80E provides high-quality QoS. With
an advanced queue scheduling algorithm and
congestion control algorithm, the NE80E can
carry out accurate multi-level scheduling for
data ows. This meets the quality needs of
users and the differing quality requirements of
different levels of services.
The NE80E provides a comprehensive QoS
scheduling mechanism and supports the
following functions to ensure QoS:
Five-level Hierarchical QoS (HQoS) access
side scheduling to satisfy the access needs
of different levels of users for differentiated
and diversied services
MPLS HQoS for the network side to support
QoS deployment on the network side and
QoS for MPLS VPN, Virtual Leased Line (VLL),
and Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge
(PWE3)
TE-based MPLS DiffServ Aware (DS)-TE
to combine the use of MPLS TE and the
DiffServ model
Eight class types (CTs)

Future-Oriented IPv6-Compatible Solutions

The NE80E supports a variety of features that
allow it to provide comprehensive solutions for
transition from IPv4 to IPv6:
IPv6 routing protocols including the static
routing protocol, OSPF Version 3 (OSPFv3),
IS-IS Version 6 (IS-ISv6), and BGP4+
Various user access modes including IPv6based Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
(PPPoE) and IPoE
Technologies such as IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels
Interconnection between IPv6 networks
and IPv4 networks
Access of IPv6 PCs, IPv6 Access Control Lists
(ACLs), and IPv6-based policy-based routing

3. Product Specications
Attribute

NE80E

Switching capacity

2.56 Tbit/s

Forwarding performance

1600 Mpps

Number of slots

22 slots, including 2 MPUs (1:1 backup), 4 SFUs (1+3 backup), and 16 LPUs

Dimensions(WDH)

442 mm 669 mm 1600 mm

Height (U)

36U

Maximum power consumption

6000W

Weight in full conguration

294kg

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All-round Reliability Solution

Providing reliability protection at different
levels, including the equipment level, network
level, and service level, the NE80E can cope
with various kinds of bearer network failures
and ensure service recovery.
Equipment-level reliability: The NE80E
provides redundancy backup for key
components. These components support
hot swapping and hot backup. The NE80E
also makes use of In-Service Software
Upgrade (ISSU), Non-Stop Routing (NSR),
and Non-Stop Forwarding (NSF) and other
technologies to improve services recovery
capability and ensure continuous service
interruption.
Network-level reliability: The NE80E 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 NE80E provides an
end-to-end network protection solution
that can, in the event of a failure, guarantee
service recovery within 200 ms.
Service-level reliability: The VPN FRR, E-VRRP,
VLL FRR, Ethernet OAM, PW redundancy,
E-Trunk, and E-Automatic Protection
Switching (APS) technologies provided by
the NE80E 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.
The NE80E provides a multi-level solution
that can meet the requirements of the whole
network and completely satisfy carrier-class
reliability requirements. The NE80E acts as
a foundation on which to build carrier-class
services with system availability at 99.999%.

NetEngine 40E Universal Service Router

Bandwidth constraint models: Maximum

Allocation Model (MAM) and Russian Dolls
Model (RDM)
With its well-designed QoS mechanism, the
NE80E excels in the allocation of network
resources. It provides a whole network solution
to service quality, meeting the requirements of
carrier-class services on operator networks.

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NetEngine 40E Universal Service Router

Interface type

OC-192c/STM-64c POS
OC-12c/STM-4c POS
OC-3c/STM-1c POS
Channelized OC-3/STM-1
GE/FE
E3/CT3
E1/T1

IPv4

Supports the static routing protocol and dynamic routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, IS-IS,
and BGP-4.
Supports line-rate forwarding on all interfaces in complicated routing environments, for
example, when route apping occurs.

IPv6

Supports the IPv4/IPv6 dual-protocol stack.

Supports various technologies for transition from IPv4 to IPv6: manual tunnel
congurations, automatic tunnel congurations, IPv6-to-IPv4 (6-to-4) tunneling, Generic
Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunneling, and Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing
Protocol (ISATAP) tunneling.
Supports IPv4 over IPv6 tunneling and IPv6 Provider Edge Router (6PE).
Supports the IPv6 static routing protocol.
Supports the IPv6 static routing protocol, and IPv6 dynamic routing protocols such as RIP
Next Generation (RIPng), OSPFv3, IS-ISv6, and BGP4+.
Supports IPv6 neighbor discovery and path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) discovery.
Supports Transmission Control Protocol Version 6 (TCP6), ping IPv6, tracert IPv6, socket
IPv6, static IPv6 Domain Name System (DNS), specifying the IPv6 DNS server, Trivial File
Transfer Protocol (TFTP) IPv6 client, and IPv6 policy-based routing.
Supports Internet Control Message Protocol Version 6 (ICMPv6) Management Information
Base (MIB), User Datagram Protocol Version 6 (UDP6) MIB, TCP6 MIB, and IPv6 MIB.

MPLS/MPLS VPN

Supports MPLS-TE.
Supports MPLS/BGP VPN that is dened in RFC 2547bis.
Supports three inter-Autonomous System (AS) VPN implementation modes.
Supports integration with Internet services.
Supports MPLS L2VPNs in either Martini or Kompella mode.
Supports L2VPN technologies such as VLL and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS).
Supports heterogeneous interworking.
Supports MVPN.

Layer 2 feature

Supports IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE802.1ad, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1w, and IEEE 802.1s.
Supports VLAN aggregation (supper VLAN).
Supports the ltering list based on MAC addresses and ports.
Supports 1483B.

Reliability

QoS

OC-48c/STM-16c POS
OC-12c/STM-4c ATM
OC-3c/STM-1c ATM
10GE-WAN/LAN
2.5GE/10GE RPR
CE1/CT1

Supports IP/LDP/VPN/TE/VLL FRR.

Supports protection mechanisms such as IP/TE automatic FRR, fast convergence of IGP/
BGP/multicast routing, Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), RRPP, IP-Trunk link backup, BFD, MPLS/
Ethernet OAM, and routing protocol/port/VLAN damping.
Supports PW redundancy, E-Trunk, E-APS, and E-STP.
Provides in-service patching for smooth software upgrade.
Adopts the passive backplane.
Provides redundancy backup for key components such as route processing modules, SFUs,
and power supply modules to guard against single-point faults.
Supports status-based hot backup and switching between hot backed up components.
Supports graceful restart (GR), NSF, NSR, ISSU, and hot swapping of all components.
Provides the well-designed HQoS mechanism.
Provides advanced queue scheduling and congestion avoidance technologies on each LPU.
Provides accurate trafc policing and trafc shaping.
Provides the function of dening complex rules and can identify ne granularity ows.
Supports MPLS HQoS and ensures QoS for MPLS VPN, VLL, and PWE3 services.
Provides DiffServ-based DS-TE and TE-based MPLS DS-TE.
Supports eight CTs.
Supports TE-tunnel-oriented QoS.

User management

Supports management over access users such as Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
access users, Point-to-Point Protocol over X (PPPoX) access users, and IP over X
(IPoX) access users.Supports user authentication protocols, such as Password
Authentication Protocol (PAP), Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP),
Microsoft CHAP (MSCHAP), Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS),
and Huawei Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (HWTACACS).
Supports user accounting protocols, such as RADIUS, HWTACACS, and Common
Open Policy Service (COPS).
Supports user authorization protocols, such as RADIUS, HWTACACS, and COPS.
Supports protocols such as COPS and Change of Authorization (CoA).

iVSE
(integrated Video
Service Enhancement)

Supports Fast Channel Change (FCC) and RET of Broadcast TV Video (BTV) channels.
Supports quality monitoring for BTV/video on demand (VoD) programs.

NAT

Supports symmetric NAT and cone NAT.

Supports the IPv4 NAT-address pool.
Supports PAT and NoPAT.
Supports VPN multi-instance.
Supports NAT ALG.
Supports master/slave status and load balancing of NAT servers.

Clock

Supports 1588v2, Adaptive Clock Recovery (ACR), Differential Clock Recovery (DCR),
and Ethernet clock synchronization.

Mobile backhaul

Supports TDM PWE3, ATM PWE3, and ATM IMA.

Environmental
requirements

Long-term ambient temperature: 0oC to 45oC

Short-term ambient temperature: -5oC to +55oC
Long-term relative humidity: 5% to 85%
Short-term relative humidity: 0% to 100%
Working altitude: lower than 3000 meters

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Security

Supports ACL-based packet ltering.

Supports Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (URPF).
Supports the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).
Supports DHCP snooping.
Supports Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) attack defense and Denial of Service
(DoS) attack defense.
Supports the MAC address learning limit and binding of MAC addresses and IP
addresses.
Supports Secure Shell (SSH) and SSH Version 2 (SSHv2).
Supports NetStream.

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Multicast

Supports IGMPv1, IGMPv2, and IGMPv3.

Supports the conguration of static multicast groups.
Supports multicast routing protocols: PIM-DM, PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, Multicast Source
Discovery Protocol (MSDP), and Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP).
Supports multicast CAC.
Supports interoperability between multicast protocols.
Supports the congurations of multicast policies, including policies based on
multicast routing protocols and multicast forwarding.
Supports multicast QoS.
Supports multicast replication of IPoE/PPPoE access users.
Provides two-level multicast replication on the SFU and LPU to achieve the optimal
multicast effect.

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