HUAWEI NetEngine40E Universal ServiceRouter
Hardware Description
3 NE40E-X8 Chassis Overview
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3 NE40E-X8 Chassis Overview
About This Chapter
This chapter describes the device structure, power supply and heat dissipation system.
3.1 Overview
3.2 Power Supply System
3.3 Heat Dissipation System
This section describes the appearance, functions, and specifications of the heat dissipation
system.
3.4 Switching Network
This section describes the functions of the switch fabric unit.
3.5 Control Plane
3.6 Physical Specifications
3.1 Overview
This section gives an overview of the NE40E-X8 hardware.
3.1.1 System Overview
This section gives an overview of the system.
The NE40E series adopt a centralized routing engine and a distributed forwarding architecture.
This helps to provide rich and flexible services and to perform large-capacity forwarding.
The NE40E-X8 has an integrated chassis, with main components which all support hot
swapping.
The NE40E-X8 supports all the Line Processing Units (LPUs) on the former NE40E, but the
Switch and Route Processing Units (SRUs) and Switch and Fabric Units (SFUs) are new.
As shown in Figure 3-1, the NE40E-X8 has eight LPU slots.The switching capacity of the
entire system is 7.08 Tbit/s.