Huawei and Cisco Switches Interoperation V2.5

Huawei and Cisco Switches Interoperation
An enterprise may have many Cisco devices running on its network. An enterprise
customer's major concern in a network expansion project is how can new devices
seamlessly interoperate with Cisco devices to reduce the OPEX.
After nearly 20 years development, Huawei switches have been able to interoperate Cisco
devices on the forwarding, control, and management planes.
Interoperability on the Forwarding Plane
Huawei products are developed in strict compliance with
MAN
Core
S9700
Core
C6500E
Aggregation
S7700
Aggregation
C4500E
Access
S5700
Access
C3750X
IEEE802.3i (10BASE-T), IEEE 802.3u (100BASE-T), IEEE802.3ab

(Gigabit Ethernet), Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE802.3z), and IEEE
802.3ae (10GE) protocols, and all their interfaces are
interoperable with other devices on the forwarding plane.
Over 6.5 million Huawei switches are operating on live

VOICE
PC
IP terminal
ATM machine
Interoperability on the Control Plane
networks and their good interoperability has been verified by

many customers.
Interoperability with standard protocols on Cisco devices:

It has been verified by many authoritative certification
companies that Huawei switches are fully interoperable with
Cisco devices. Huawei switches have passed interoperability
tests conducted by Miercom, EANTC, Qihoo 360, and Tolly.
Interoperability with Cisco proprietary protocols: Huawei

switches can interoperate with Cisco proprietary protocols by
transparently transmitting Cisco protocol packets or using
standard or Huawei proprietary protocols as substitutes.
Interoperability on the Management Plane Huawei eSight provides an open platform for uniform
Multi-version
Multi-customer Custo
mer
Vendor
Device
Policy
Any policy
Smart control
Open
platform
Any vendor
Service
Simple
deployment
Visible service
Flexible
mechanisms
Any device
O&M of multi-vender devices. eSight is capable of managing

over 130 models of Cisco devices. It supports both standard
MIBs and user-defined management functions.
Huawei switches can be managed by certified third-party
network management systems.
Management Capabilities
Device management, including CPU usage, memory usage,

and temperature monitoring
Interface management and interface traffic statistics collection
Alarm management, NetStream, and topology management
Huawei Confidential
Huawei switch development and service teams have

delivered over 100 major Cisco device interoperation
or swap projects, with a success rate of 100%.
Strong guarantee for Cisco

device interoperation projects
Presale guarantee
Post-sale guarantee
Huawei experts collect network model, device

applications, functions, and configurations onsite.
Network
evaluation
1:1
mirroring
Huawei interoperability test
lab simulates device swap on a
1:1 mirror network.
Interoperation
solution
Huawei service
Huawei experts
team provides
provide guide to quick onsite
device swap and support if needed.
installation onsite Huawei
to ensure stable
maintenance team
network operating. guarantees
successful
interoperation.
Design the optimal

interoperation solution
based on networking.
Onsite
instruction
2-level
guarantee
Customize
versions for
special
requirements.
Provide patches
quickly to fix
problems.
Quick
response
Huawei &Cisco Interoperation Success Stories

Turkey AveA's campus network project: Huawei S9700 interoperated with Cisco C6509E through OSPF and
used BFD to speed up OSPF convergence. Huawei S5700 and Cisco 3560 ran VRRP to implement redundancy
protection. S5700 and Cisco 2960/3560 ran standard MSTP protocol to build a loop-free Layer 2 network and ensure
stable Layer 2 service provisioning.
Thailand Triple T's campus network project: Cisco C3750 and Huawei S5352 switches constituted a Layer 2
network. C3750 switches ran Cisco proprietary PVST protocol to implement redundancy on the Layer 2 network.
S5352 switches transparently transmitted PVST packets so that C3750 switches can calculate a spanning tree using
transparently transmitted PVST packets.
Bank of China's converged campus network project: Huawei S5700/S3700/S2700 and Cisco C3750
switches constituted a Layer 2 network. They ran standard MSTP protocol to prevent loops on the aggregation and
access layers. The loop-free Layer 2 network provided access to PCs, ATM machines, and query machines, and
simplified network topology and service deployment.
China Telcom's HQ campus network ODS upgrade project: The gateway originally deployed on Cisco
C3560 was moved to the S9300 CSS system newly deployed on the network. The S9300 switches worked as
aggregation switches and used CSS technology to improve network reliability. Cisco 3560 and Huawei S9300
switches ran standard MSTP protocol to realize redundancy protection on the Layer 2 network, ensuring fast failover
upon a link failure.
Lenovo Hong Kong's data center project: Huawei S9700 switches worked as core switches and used BGP
and MPLS to communicate with Cisco C6509 switches in autonomous systems of different regions such as HK
Lincoln office, Beijing hub, and HK old DC. This deployment provided high security and fast data switching for the
data center of Lenovo Hong Kong.
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IEEE802.3i (10BASE-T), IEEE 802.3u (100BASE-T), IEEE802.3ab

Over 6.5 million Huawei switches are operating on live

Interoperability on the Control Plane

networks and their good interoperability has been verified by

Interoperability with standard protocols on Cisco devices:

Interoperability with Cisco proprietary protocols: Huawei

O&M of multi-vender devices. eSight is capable of managing

Device management, including CPU usage, memory usage,

Huawei switch development and service teams have

Strong guarantee for Cisco

Huawei experts collect network model, device

Design the optimal

Huawei &Cisco Interoperation Success Stories

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