Features

1、Advanced system architecture

Adopting advancedCLOSA multi-level, multi-plane switching architecture provides continuous bandwidth upgrade capabilities.

Orthogonal mesh design:S10500XThe service boards and switching network boards adopt a fully orthogonal design.(90degree)Cross-line card service traffic is directly connected to the switching network board via orthogonal connectors, supporting cell switching. Backplane cabling is reduced to zero (greatly avoiding signal attenuation), significantly improving system bandwidth and evolution capabilities. The overall capacity can be smoothly expanded to hundreds of gigabytes.Tbps；

support40GEand100GEEthernet standard, fully meeting the application and future development needs of non-blocking campus networks.

Independent switching network cards, with the control engine and switching network card hardware being independent of each other, adopting...5Switchable planar design, and supports stencils.N+MRedundancy maximizes equipment reliability and ensures continuous bandwidth upgrades for future products.

The main control slot and the service line card slot have the same width, which is a full-width slot. The fan frame and power supply frame are redundantly designed to cope with emergencies and greatly improve the overall reliability of the equipment.

2、Innovative distributed multi-engine design

S10500XIt adopts an innovative hardware design, providing the system with powerful control capabilities and millisecond-level high reliability through a fully distributed independent control engine, detection engine, and maintenance engine;

The distributed control engine provides a powerful control processing system for all business boards, easily handling various protocol messages and control messages, and supporting fine-grained control of protocol messages, providing the system with a complete ability to resist protocol message attacks.

A distributed detection engine allows all business boards to operate in a distributed manner.BFD、OAMIt can quickly detect faults and link with the control plane protocol to support fast protection switching and fast convergence. It can achieve millisecond-level fault detection to ensure uninterrupted service.

Distributed maintenance engine, intelligentCPUThe system supports intelligent power management, enabling sequential power-on and power-off of individual boards (reducing power surges caused by simultaneous power-on of individual boards, improving equipment lifespan, reducing electromagnetic radiation, and lowering system power consumption), as well as online device status checks.

3、IRF2(Second-generation intelligent elastic architecture)--Horizontal virtualization

To meet the needs of horizontal business integration within the park network.S10500XsupportIRF2The (second-generation intelligent elastic architecture) technology virtualizes multiple high-end devices into a single logical device, a leading technology supported by H3C.4The core switch products of chassis virtualization have strong advantages in reliability, distribution, and ease of management, mainly reflected in three aspects:

Reliability: Through hot backup routing technology, redundant backup of all information in the control plane and data plane and uninterrupted three-layer forwarding are achieved throughout the virtual architecture, which greatly enhances the reliability and performance of the virtual architecture, eliminates single points of failure, and avoids business interruption.

Distributed nature: Through distributed cross-device link aggregation technology, load sharing and mutual backup of multiple uplinks are achieved, thereby improving the redundancy of the entire network architecture and the utilization rate of link resources.

Manageability: The entire resilient architecture shares a common...IPManagement simplifies network device management and network topology management, improves operational efficiency, and reduces maintenance costs.

IRF3.1(Third-generation intelligent elastic architecture upgrade - vertical virtualization)

S10500XThis product series can support heterogeneous virtualization in the vertical dimension, connecting core and access devices through...IRF3.1The technology forms a vertical logical virtual device that supportsAC、APUnified management and configuration are equivalent to adding a box-type device as a remote interface board to the main device system to achieve expansion.I/OThe purpose is to provide port capabilities and to enable centralized control and management.IRF3.1Technology can simplify management and significantly reduce network management nodes; simplify cabling, reducing Layer 2 to Layer 1 and saving horizontal connection cables; and ultimately achieve data forwarding plane virtualization, which facilitates simplified business deployment and automatic orchestration.

PTPclock

S10500Xsupport1588V2With synchronous Ethernet functionality, it meets the high-precision time synchronization requirements between network devices, compared to other devices with the same precision...GPSTime synchronization improves security while reducing deployment costs.

Data center virtualization and network convergence technologies

As a core device of enterprise-level cloud computing data centers.S10500XIt provides a range of technical solutions for cloud computing data center virtualization and network convergence:

TRILL/SPB：

As the scale of servers and switches increases, data center networks are increasingly inclined towards a flattened network architecture to facilitate maintenance and management, which requires the construction of a large Layer 2 network.S10500XSupport throughTRILLorSPBThis technology is used to build large-scale Layer 2 networks for data centers. Large-scale Layer 2 technology for data centers.TRILL（Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links(Multi-link transparent interconnection)SPB（Shortest Path BridgingThe Shortest Path Bridging (SBR) protocol organically combines the simplicity and flexibility of Layer 2 with the stability, scalability, and high performance of Layer 3, providing higher-density ports and a flatter network architecture to meet the access needs of large-scale servers in data centers.

4、HOME（Ethernet Virtual InterconnectionEthernet virtualization interconnection technology

HOMEIt is an advanced "MAC in IP"technology,HOMEThe solution deployment is very simple, based on existing...IPNetworks provide flexible Layer 2 interconnection capabilities for distributed physical sites.HOMEThe solution is very easy to deploy, compatible with users' existing networks, and protects users' investments.

VXLAN（Virtual eXtensible LANScalable Virtual LAN

VXLANBased onIPNetwork, using "MAC in UDP"Two-layer encapsulation"VPNtechnology.VXLANIt can be based on existing service providers or enterprisesIPThe network provides Layer 2 interconnection for distributed physical sites and enables business isolation for different tenants.

EVB（Edge Virtual Bridging(Edge Virtual Bridging)

passGIVE（Virtual Ethernet Port AggregatorThis technology uploads the network traffic generated by virtual machines to the physical switch connected to the server for processing. It not only realizes traffic forwarding between virtual machines, but also solves problems such as virtual machine traffic monitoring and access control policy deployment.

FCoE（Fibre Channel over EthernetFibre Channel (FCC) protocol based on Ethernet.

FCoEThe technology is mainly used to solve cloud computing data centersANDThe problem of heterogeneous convergence of network and storage networks. Through...FCoEandCEE（Converged Enhanced EthernetThe deployment of converged enhanced Ethernet (CE) technology can realize the convergence of the front-end and back-end network architectures of data centers, solve the technical problem of the separation of data, computing and storage networks, and thus greatly reduce the procurement and expansion costs of data centers.

5High availabilityM-LAGArchitecture

S10500XSeries switches supportM-LAG（Multichassis Link Aggregation GroupCross-device link aggregation technology(OriginalDRNItechnology)By virtualizing two physical devices into one device at the forwarding layer, cross-device link aggregation is achieved while maintaining independence at the control layer, thereby improving single-board-level reliability to device-level reliability.

6、Multi-service integration based on open architecture

S10500XThe series adheres toH3CThe company's open architecture design philosophy – Open Application Architecture (OAA), will replace the traditional campus network core switchL2toL3The simple message forwarding function has been redefined as integrated.L2toL7Deep business awareness, wired and wireless integration, active and passive integrationIPv4/IPv6An integrated, multi-service platform that combines network traffic analysis and management with other services.

S10500XThe series supports firewall modules,IPSSecurity control modules, such as modules and load balancers, can extend security protection functions to every port of the switch; they support virtual firewall functionality, which can provide...VPNUsers are provided with network firewall rental services. This achieves seamless integration of network services and security services.

S10500XThe series supports a future-oriented open service platform, integrating third-party software through switches to bring stronger service convergence capabilities to the switches.

7Superb eagle vision/SDNIntegration of business capabilities

S10500XSeries supports Eagle Vision/SDNThe Eagle Vision Control module offers a variety of business capabilities, including asset inventory and monitoring in network devices, and sensing and precise identification of IoT terminals, providing customers with a manageable, controllable, and secure network networking solution.S10500XsupportADCampusThe solution is deployed on switch equipment to enable network products,SDNIntegrated deployment functionality.

8、Next-generation wired and wireless integrated solution

S10500XThis series of switches supports next-generation wired and wireless integrated solutions. The switches natively support convergence.ACFunctionality that allows direct management of wirelessAPCompared to single wirelessACThe card insertion solution has the advantage of being more flexible and simple to deploy;S10500XThe series of switches also supports high-capacity professional wireless...ACInsert card solution, and can be integrated with switches.ACThe perfect combination of functions forms a unique layeringACThis solution addresses the complex management challenges in large-scale wireless deployment environments, making wired and wireless integrated solutions more flexible and convenient.

FusionACAs a native feature of the switch, it also supports...IRF2/IRF3.1By combining virtualization technologies, a single device can manage all wired and wireless devices on the network, greatly simplifying network operation and maintenance complexity.

9ComprehensiveIPv6Solution

S10500XThe series of switches fully supportIPv6Protocol family, supportsIPv6Static routesRIPng、OSPFv3、IS-ISv6、BGP4+waitIPv6Routing protocols that support a wide range of routing protocols.IPv4TowardsIPv6Transitional technologies, including:IPv6Hand-made tunnels6to4tunnel,ISATAPtunnel,GREtunnel,IPv4Compatible with tunneling technologies such as automatic configuration tunnels, ensuringIPv4TowardsIPv6A smooth transition.

10、Hardware-level encryption technology

S10500XSupports hardware-level encryption technologyMacsectechnology(802.1aUnlike traditional end-to-end application layer protection software encryption technology,MacsecBy using cryptographic techniques to authenticate data sources, control protocols managing bridged networks and other data are protected, ensuring information integrity and providing re-protection and confidentiality services. Protection is achieved at the source by authenticating frames sent from that station.2Layer protocols are vulnerable to attacks.

Network topology

Network Application 1:IDC Solutions

The H3C S10500X series core switches support up to 256 100GE QSFP28 optical interfaces, 512 40GE QSFP+ optical interfaces, or 768 10 Gigabit SFP+ optical interfaces per unit, meeting the performance requirements of IDC core equipment. They support virtualization technologies such as IRF2, TRILL, IRF3.1, and MDC, enabling large-scale network deployments.

Network Application 2: Multi-service Campus Network

Traditional wireless networking models are inadequate for handling service requirements such as IPv6, wireless security, user management, and wireless voice. The H3C S10500X wireless controller/converged AC+FIT AP control architecture achieves centralized management and configuration of APs, centralized user access control, automatic AP configuration file downloads and software version updates, and also implements IPv6, wireless security, RF management, and cross-layer 3 roaming functions, meeting the needs of value-added services such as voice and video. Based on a unified hardware and software platform, the H3C S10500X provides an integrated wired and wireless solution, solving the problems of separating wired and wireless devices, network management, and user management.