Huawei intros CloudEngine 12800 line

Huawei, Cisco's toughest competitor in networking, will debut its entry into enterprise data centre switching at this week's Interop 2012 conference, in Las Vegas, CIO.IN writes.

Huawei will showcase its CloudEngine 12800 line of core switches, which feature a switching capacity of up to 48Tbps and bandwidth of 2Tbps per slot, Huawei says.

The CloudEngine 12800 and the CloudEngine 5800/6800 top-of-rack switches support connectivity for Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Ethernet, and 40/100G Ethernet, as well as features for network virtualisation and computing, storage and network convergence.

According to PC Advisor, the line is based on a non-blocking CLOS fabric architecture, and features front-to-rear ventilation to improve heat dissipation.

The high-end CloudEngine 12812 will support up to 96 100G Ethernet ports, 288 40G Ethernet ports and 1 152 10G Ethernet ports.

For storage convergence, the CloudEngine series also supports Fibre Channel-over-Ethernet to tunnel Fibre Channel SAN traffic through an Ethernet network Tech World reports.

The CloudEngine series also combines priority flow control with a feature called enhanced transmission selection to help ensure non-blocking transmission.