NE9000 Product and

Hardware Features
Introduction

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 Foreword

In April 2015, Huawei HQ hold the Huawei Global Analyst Summit and launched the new-generation
NE9000 core router, with the following highlights:
 Industry's Highest Capacity Backbone Router
 Industry's first cable backplane, breaking the bottleneck of the rate
 Innovative, Green, and Energy-saving Technologies Build a Low-Carbon Dioxide Network
 Key component redundancy, improving reliability
 Intelligent O&M Building a Security and Robust Network
 IP + Optical Synergy Reduce TCO
 Traffic On Demand, 50% BW Utilization Improved

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 Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

 Describe NE9000 Product Position in operator network
 Describe NE9000 Hardware Features
 Understand NE9000 Boards and its Features
 Describe NE9000 Product Features

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 Contents
1. NE9000 Product Overview
2. NE9000 Product Introduction
2.1 Hardware Introduction
2.2 Product Introduction
3. List of Software Features

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 Contents
1. NE9000 Product Overview
2. NE9000 Product Introduction
2.1 Hardware Introduction
2.2 Product Introduction
3. List of Software Features

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NE9000 Converged Core Router Highlight

Flexibility ： Four times higher capacity than the Convergence ： Support for all services and
industry average, supporting growth over the all scenarios
next 5 to 10 years

Intelligence ： Intelligent SDN architecture High quality ： Secure, reliable, and green
featuring three programmable planes and real-
time adjustment and delivery

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Industry's Highest Capacity Industry's first cable backplane,
Backbone Router breaking the bottleneck of the rate
Backplane PCB Cable
Signal
VS<1/4 Loss of PCB
loss
PCB
~60 No limited
layer
Length ~1.2m No limited

Huawei has developed 28G backplanes and started pre- product NE9000-20
NE9000-20 NE9000-8 researching 56G.
Slot number 20 slots
NE9000 Series Routers
Max capacity
40*100GE 20/16/8*100GE 4Tbps(8T)
Slot capacity @ backplane rate 8T@56G per slot
50
Max Capacity
4T@28G 80Tbps(160T)
per chassis
25
LPUF480GE +sub-card:
60*10GE 24*GE/10G+12*10OTN/ETH+2*100G OTN/ETH [email protected]
400G/1T @10G

2012 2015 2017 **

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Innovative, Green, and Energy-saving Technologies Build a Low-Carbon
Dioxide Network
1.27 W/G Energy-saving and cooling technologies

0.9 W/G >0.9 W/G Innovative I-shaped air duct

• Prioritize heat-sensitive
Air Air out optical modules.
Air-in out VS

chassis
0.4 W/G 0.4 W/G Air-in • Minimal wind resistance for
rapid heat removal.
Traditional Z- Innovative I- • Cooling capability of the
shaped air duct shaped air duct device improves by 40%.
Huawei 400G 1T 4T Others Huawei Industry-first floating cooling technology
Huawei NE9000 LPU + Carbon fiber thermally conductive materials
Compare with Industry : 50% less power consumption Cooling board • Efficient cooling over the entire board;
Thermal pipe
cooling efficiency up 30%

Card
• Carbon fiber thermal materials, increasing
Power per chassis in 10 years Chip card
heat conductivity efficiency 10 times
Saving
4.6M KWH ≈ 1M €
ATOM Group ATOM Group
Chipset

Dynamic frequency modulation, multi-

0.23 Euro per kilowatt-hour as a average core enabling or disabling

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Key component redundancy, improving reliability
Chassis system backup design Intra-system backup design Board internal backup design

Power
Power module
modules: Upper half Backup
LPU Power supply
#1 Chip #1
Master fan
N+M MPU
chassis LPU area monitoring monitoring
SFU external setting Chip #2
backup Fan assembly Power module
Chip #N
3+1 backup #N

Monitoring Dual monitoring planes, 1+1 backup Power modules, DC ： N+1

modules backup, AC/HVDC:N+N backup
1:1 backup

Master Slave LPU Clock A Chip #1

Monitoring
MPU MPU SFU
SFU/MPU area Chip #2
Clock B
MPUs Fan assembly Chip #N
1:1 backup 3+1 backup
Dual management planes, 1+1 backup Clock modules, 1:1 backup

SFU SFU Chip A1 Chip B1

SFUs LPU
#1 #8
N+1 Lower half chassis
backup Chip An Chip Bn
LPU area
Fan assembly
3+1 backup Inter-board high-speed data bus, N+M backup Inter-chip high-speed data bus,
N+M backup

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Intelligent O&M Building a Security and Robust Network
Self-check-based precaution Immunity and healing Fast recovery
Prevention before occurrence Defense upon symptom Healing after occurrence

Neural network algorithm Automatic fault identification Fast information collection

Big data-based risk identification Self-diagnosis and immunity Fault mode library for intelligent robot learning
Dynamic comparison and rapid precaution Point of failure location and isolation Quick troubleshooting and solution providing

Static data
collection and analysis Single NE

Down 30 minutes x3
Device faults
50%
Dynamic comparison
Network system
trend analysis and
prediction Fault rectification Efficiency
duration improvement

Health
Immunity Treatment
Check

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IP + Optical Synergy Reduce TCO
Traditional Solution SDN IP + Optical Solution
Supper Controller

Domain Controller Domain Controller Shared Interface

-Optical -IP
Shared λ

PCEP/OSPF-TE PCEP/BGP-LS

IP
Device Quantity 100GE 100G λ Device Quantity 100GE 100G λ
Interface Interface

Router 8 40 NA Router 8 28 NA

Optical 8 24 12 Optical 8 20 6+3

Optical

• Multi-layer planning ： share protection resources ， saving ports 25%

• Multi-layer restoration: recover from multiple faults, improve reliability
IP + Optical Synergy

>25% CAPEX Saving 30% OPEX Saving Weeks Minutes

Improve Network Utilization Easy OAM, Planning Efficiency Automation, Provisioning Time

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Traffic On Demand, 50% BW Utilization Improved
Traditional Routing Path Traffic Optimization

Tianjin
30% DC • Centralized calculation
Xi'an BW, Latency…
Shanghai PCEP
DC 10% DC Tianjin Huawei ROAM Algorithm
60% DC
• Real-time
Xi'an Shanghai Traffic perception & adjustment
90% DC
Shenzhen DC DC • Visualization
40%
E2E traffic path Visualization
Low Bandwidth Utilization
• Shortest Path First 60% DC
Shenzhen
• Unbalanced traffic leads to congestion

30%  80% Manual configuration 

BW Utilization Service Provisioning
Tencent
Improved Saving 30% TCO Automation & Real-time

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NE9000 Application Scenarios in the Cloud Era

BGP-LS/NETCONF/PCEP/CLI/BGP/IGP/SNMP

 P2MP/NGMVPN Data center

 VPN
 PCE+
 On-demand bandwidth
 PE+P integration
allocation
 L3/L2 VPN

Backbone  RR+
Metro edge  AntiDDoS
network
network  OTN/ETH

IGW
DC Gateway
DC Gateway  VXLAN
 EVPN
 Segment Routing
Cloud  DCI cloud-and- Cloud
center network synergy center
 Seamless MPLS

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 Contents
1. NE9000 Product Overview
2. NE9000 Product Introduction
2.1 Hardware Introduction
2.2 Product Introduction
3. List of Software Features

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Comprehensive NE9000-20/NE9000-8 Overview
NE9000-8 NE9000-20
Height 23RU 49.5RU
Size (W x D x H) 442mm x 945mm x 1016mm 600mm x 1000mm x 2200mm
Capacity 32T 80T
Slot Capacity 4T, 8T evolution 4T, 8T evolution
Service slots 8 20
SFU 8 （ N+1 backup ） 8 （ N+1 backup ）
GE, GE electric, 10GE, 10GE DWDM/CWDM, 10GE OTN, 40GE,
Interface type
100GE, 100GE DWDM, 100G OTN
Number of 100GE
interface 320 800
49.5U
Typical energy
efficiency(W/G) 0.4 0.4

Empty Power
consumption (W) 1895 3400

Power supply DC: 11+1 DC:23+1

23U
AC/HVDC: 6+6 AC/HVDC:12+12
DC air switch(60A) 2*12 2*24
Switching Capacity 83.782Tbps 209.455Tbps
Supporting LPU* • 4T 40*100G
• 2T 20*100G, 16*100G
• 1T 8*100G, 60*10G
• 480G LPUF-480G, 24*1000M/10GE, 12*10G, 2*100G
NE9000-20 NE9000-8

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NE9000-20 Chassis Overview

Flexible power distribution

 24 power modules Control & monitoring unit
 DC: N+1 backup (CMU) Efficient fan trays (line cards)
 AC/ HVDC: N+N backup  2 CMU slots
 1:1 backup  8 fan trays, 6 fans/tray
Most line card slots in the  System monitoring & power  N+1 backup
industry management  Efficient straight duct
 Front-to-back airflow
 20 LPU slots
 Supports 4T/slot
 Expandable to 8T/slot Efficient fan trays (MPUs + SFUs)
Flexible SFU architecture
 4 fan trays, 2 fans/tray
High-performance MPUs  8 SFU slots
 N+1 backup Industry's highest-capacity cable
 2 MPU slots
 1:1 backup backplane
 X86 multi-core processors  Link rate > 56Gbps
 Ensures reliable transmission of
high-frequency signals

Front Back

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NE9000-20 Chassis Specification
PM PM PM PM PEM Item NE9000-20
PM PM PM PM PEM
PM PM PM PM PEM Size (W x D x H) 600mm x 1000mm x 2200mm
PM PM PM PM PEM
PM PM PM PM PEM Max. Switching Capacity 209.455Tbps
PM PM PM PM PEM
Max. Slot Packet Forwarding Rate 1,808Mpps (256 byte)
CMU1 CMU2
Max. Chassis Packet Forwarding
36,160Mpps(256 byte)
FAN 1 FAN 2 FAN 3 FAN 4
Rate
Slot Capacity 4Tbps
10(LPU)
1(LPU)
2(LPU)
3(LPU)
4(LPU)
5(LPU)
6(LPU)
7(LPU)
8(LPU)
9(LPU)

Port Density 800*100GE; 3200*10GE

Weight (empty) 231 kg (509.3 lb)
Integrated chassis weight(cabinet + 410 kg (903.9 lb)
power supply + fan)
21( MPU) MTBF 14.88 years
23(SFU)
MTTR 0.5 hours
24(SFU) FAN FAN
25(SFU) 9 10
Redundant MPUs 1: 1
26(SFU) Redundant Switch fabrics 7+1
27(SFU) Typical power consumption 30400 W (with 20 40*100G line
28(SFU) cards)
FAN FAN
29(SFU)
11 12
17600 W (with 20 20*100G line
30(SFU) cards)
22( MPU) 19600 W (with 20 8x100G line Cards)
Typical heat dissipation 98630 BTu/hr (with 20 40*100G line
cards)
57101 BTu/hr (with 20 20*100G line
11(LPU)
12(LPU)
13(LPU)
14(LPU)
15(LPU)
16(LPU)
17(LPU)
18(LPU)
19(LPU)
20(LPU)

cards)
FAN 5 FAN 6 FAN 7 FAN 8 63590 BTu/hr (with 20 8x100G line
Cards)

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NE9000-8 Chassis Overview

Flexible power distribution

 12 power modules Efficient fan trays (line cards)
 DC: N+1 backup
 AC/ HVDC: N+N backup  3 fan trays, 6 fans/tray
line card slots  N+1 backup
 Efficient straight duct
 8 LPU slots  Front-to-back airflow
High-performance MPUs  Supports 4T/slot
 Expandable to 8T/slot
 2 MPU slots
 1:1 backup Industry's highest-capacity
 X86 multi-core processors cable backplane
 Link rate>56Gbps
 Ensures reliable transmission of
Control & monitoring unit (CMU) high-frequency signals

 2 CMU modules (embedded in Flexible SFU architecture

the MPU)
 1:1 backup  8 SFU slots Efficient fan trays (SFUs)
 System monitoring & power  N+1 backup
management  2 fan trays, 3 fans/tray
Front Back

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NE9000-20 Chassis Specification
Item NE9000-20
PM PM PM PM PEM
Size (W x D x H) 442mm x 945mm x 1016mm
PM PM PM PM PEM
PM PM PM PM PEM Max. Switching Capacity 83.782Tbps
Max. Slot Packet Forwarding 1,808Mpps (256 byte)
Rate
Max. Chassis Packet
FAN 1 FAN 2 FAN 3 14,464Mpps
Forwarding Rate

10(MPU)
9(MPU)
1(LPU)
2(LPU)
3(LPU)
4(LPU)
5(LPU)
6(LPU)
7(LPU)
8(LPU) Slot Capacity 4Tbps
Port Density 320*100GE; 1280*10GE
Weight (empty) 159 kg
Integrated chassis (cabinet + 181 kg
power supply + fan)
MTBF 14.96 years
MTTR 0.5 hours
Redundant MPUs 1: 1
Redundant Switch fabrics 7+1
Typical power consumption 12695 W (with 20 40*100G line
11(SFU)
12(SFU)
13(SFU)
14(SFU)
15(SFU)
16(SFU)
17(SFU)
18(SFU)

cards)
FAN4 7575 W (with 20 20*100G line
cards)
FAN5 Typical heat dissipation 41187 BTu/hr (with 20 40*100G
line cards)
24576 BTu/hr (with 20 20*100G
line cards)

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NE9000 Logical Architecture
Separation of Control plane, forwarding plane, and control plane

MPUA MPUB

CMUA CMUB

LPU_1 SFU_1

Backplane

LPU_20 SFU_8

Data link
PM PM
Control link
FAN FAN
#1 #12 Monitoring link
PEM PEM Power

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NE9000 Power System for On-demand Deployment

On-Demand Deployment NE9000 Logic power supply

diagram
Support DC/AC/HVDC
• Conventional DC power supply ， N+1 backup
• Conventional AC power supply ， N+N backup
• HVDC power supply, prioritized DC rooms ， N+N backup

Energy Efficient
• E2E energy saving 8%
• Power conversion efficiency is higher than other
vendors(Vendor average value is 91% ~ 93%)
DC: 95% ； AC: 94%; HVDC up to 96%

Reliable Design
• Black box records dying gasp to quickly locate faults
• Black box 8~20ms operation time after power-down,
resistant to sudden power fluctuations

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NE9000-20 Chassis: Power Supply System

Item Parameter
Rated input voltage -48 V/-60 V
PEM Input voltage range -40 VDC to -72 VDC
Maximum input current 63 A
PM Maximum output power 2200 W

Rear view Typical power 148.5 W

Front view
consumption
Typical heat dissipation 481.8 BTU/hour
Mappings between PEMs and PMs （ DC ） Rated input voltage -48 V/-60 V
Input voltage range -40 VDC to -72 VDC

 NE9000 also support 240V and 380V High Voltage

DC and 176V AC to 290V AC power supply.
 DC PMs work in N+1 backup mode; AC&HVDC
PMs work in N+N backup mode. The number of
PMs can be configured based on the board power
consumption.

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NE9000-8 Chassis: Power Supply System
Item Parameter
Rated input voltage -48 V/-60 V
PEM Input voltage range -40 VDC to -72 VDC
PM
Maximum input current 63 A
Maximum output power 2200 W
Front view Rear view Typical power consumption 148.5 W
Typical heat dissipation 481.8 BTU/hour
Rated input voltage -48 V/-60 V
Mappings between PEMs and PMs （ DC ） Input voltage range -40 VDC to -72 VDC

PEM PM
 PMs work in N+1 backup mode; The number of PMs can be
A1, B1 1
configured based on the board power consumption.
A2, B2 2  NE9000 also support 240V and 380V High Voltage DC and 176V
A3, B3 3 AC to 290V AC power supply.
...... ......
A8, B8 8

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NE9000-20 MPU
Higher frequency, more cores, and stronger processing power

• Reliable design, 1:1 backup

• Intel X86 CPU ： 10-Core @ 2.4GHz
• 32GB SSD large-capacity storage
• 32GB DRAM, expand to 64GB
• bypass NP for attack defense
• System clock: BIST, IEEE 1588V2
Southbridge System
NP
chip Clock
Device CPU
NE9000-20 2.4GHz ， 10 core
DDR RAM
NE9000-8 2.3GHz ， 8 core
LAN Switch
NCS6008 1.8GHz ， 8 core FLASH
ASR9922 2.0GHz ， 8 core [email protected]
CPLD
MX2020 2.3GHz ， 8 core GE/10GE X86 CPU
7950 XRS 1.5GHz ， 10 core

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NE9000-8 MPU

Southbridge System
NP chip Clock
• Reliable design, 1:1 backup
X86 CPU
DDR RAM
• Intel X86 CPU: [email protected] LAN
FLASH
switch
• 32GB SSD large-capacity storage [email protected]
CPLD

CMU
• 32GB DRAM, expand to 128GB
• bypass NP for attack defense
GE/10GE RS485 CAN ALM
• System clock: BIST, IEEE 1588V2

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 SFU & Logical Architecture

Larger capacity and unlimited expansion capabilities

• Multi-plane non-blocking Clos architecture

NE9000-20 SFUI-F （ 1T capacity ）
• 8 SFU slots and N+1 backup

• Upcoming 4T SFU supports 4T LPUs

• Upcoming support for BTB/clustering

NE9000-8 SFU4T-A （ 4T NE9000-20 SFU4T-B （ 4T capacity ）

LPU1 8xSFU(7+1) capacity ） LPUn(N=8/20)

OPTICAL OPTICAL

OPTICAL OPTICAL

OPTICAL OPTICAL

OPTICAL OPTICAL

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 Line Cards
Line Process Unit
4T
16*100GE
20*100GE 40*100GE
Items LPUF-480G ETH/DWDM LPUF-2T
QSFP28 QSFP28
40*100GE QSFP28 CFP2
Line card capacity 480G 2T 2T 2T 4T
2T 1000M, GE
electric,
10G 100G 10GE,
LPUF-2T+8*100GE ETHDWDM- 100G 10GE, 40GE,
20*100GE QSFP28 Interface type ETH/OTN/DW ETH/DWDM, 40GE,
ETH/DWDM 100GE
CFP2 sub-card DM/CWDM, 40GE 100GE
100G
ETH/OTN
Maximum number
16*100GE ETHDWDM-CFP2 48 16 20 16 40
of Interface
Typical power
517 910 710 960 1350
consumption(w)
480G FIB V4 4.5M 5M 5M 5M 5M
FIB V6 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M
2*100G MAC 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M
12*10G 24*1000M/
LPUF-480G ETH/OTN- ACL V4 256K 256K 512K 256K 512K
ETH/OTN- 10G SFP+
CFP2 ACL V6 128K 128K 128K 128K 128K
SFP+

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 Line Cards Signal Flow Overview
LPU MPU

Uplink of LPU
NP
TM&FIC
Fiber CAR traffic policing
Frames Traffic shaping SFU cell
Route-based forwarding
PIC Congestion management
...

Traffic classification
Congestion avoidance
Inbound interface
Fragmentation
processing

SFU
TM&FIC
Fiber NP
Frames Multicast replication
Data link layer information
Congestion avoidance
SFU cell
PIC
...

Traffic classification
Congestion management
CAR traffic policing
Traffic shaping
Outbond interface processing
Packet processing

Downlink of LPU

PIC: physical interface controller

NP: network processor
TM&FIC: traffic manager& fabric interface controller

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUI-4T Line Card

40*100G
Data Buffer Data Buffer
CPU
10*100GE 8*2GB HMC 8*2GB HMC
QSFP28

...
NP0 iTM&FIC0

Back Plane
(1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)
10*100GE
LPUI-40*100G-QSFP28 Line Card QSFP28
NP1 iTM&FIC1
Support 40GE and Break out to 10GE

...
(1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)
10*100GE
• 5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6 QSFP28 NP2 iTM&FIC2
• 2M MAC (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)

• 512K ACL or 128K ACLv6

...
10*100GE
NP3 iTM&FIC3
QSFP28
• Power Consumption: 1350W (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)
• Buffer size: 2GB*8 （ iTM ） +
2GB*8 （ NP ）
• Buffer time: 25 ~ 30ms

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUI-2T Line Card

20*100G
Data Buffer Data Buffer
CPU
5*100GE 4*2GB HMC 4*2GB HMC
QSFP28

...

Back Plane
5*100GE NP0 iTM&FIC0
LPUI-20*100G-QSFP28 Line Card QSFP28 (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)
Support 40GE and Break out to 10GE

...
5*100GE
• 5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6
QSFP28
• 2M MAC
NP1 iTM&FIC1
• 256K ACL or 128K ACLv6 (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)

...
5*100GE
• Power Consumption: 710W QSFP28
• Buffer size: 2GB*4 （ iTM ） + 2GB*4 （ NP ）
• Buffer time: 35~40ms

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUF-2T Line Card

LPUF-2T
Data Buffer Data Buffer
CPU
4*100GE 8*2GB HMC 8*2GB HMC
CFP2

...
NP0 iTM&FIC0
Sub-card

Back Plane
LPUF-2T (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)
8*100G ETH/DWDM-CFP2 4*100GE
CFP2
• 5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6 NP1 iTM&FIC1
(1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)
• 2M MAC
4*100GE
• 256K ACL or 128K ACLv6 CFP2 NP2 iTM&FIC2
• Power Consumption: 1250W （ include 2 16*100G (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)

CFP2 ）

...
4*100GE NP3 iTM&FIC3
• Buffer size: 2GB*8 （ iTM ） + 2GB*8 （ NP ） CFP2 (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)
• Buffer time: 25~30ms

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUI-1.6T ETH/DWDM Line Card

16*100G
Data Buffer Data Buffer
CPU
4*100GE 4*2GB HMC 4*2GB HMC
CFP2

...

Back Plane
LPUI-16*100G-ETH/DWDM-CFP2 Line Card 4*100GE NP0 iTM&FIC0
• 5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6 CFP2 (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)

...
• 2M MAC
• 256K ACL or 128K ACLv6 4*100GE
CFP2
• Power Consumptions: 910W
NP1 iTM&FIC1
• Buffer size: 2GB*4 （ iTM ） + (1T Duplex) (1T Duplex)

...
4*100GE
2GB*4 （ NP ） CFP2
• Buffer time: 35~40ms

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUI-1.6T Line Card

20*100G
Data Buffer Data Buffer
CPU 8*8GB DDR3 8*2GB HMC
4*100GE
QSFP28 NP0

...
(200G Duplex)
TM&FIC0

Back Plane
NP1 (500G Duplex)
(200G Duplex)
LPUI-16*100G-QSFP28 Line Card 4*100GE
QSFP28 NP2

...
Support 40GE and Break out to 10GE (200G Duplex)
TM&FIC1
• 5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6 NP3 (500G Duplex)
(200G Duplex)
• 2M MAC 4*100GE NP4
QSFP28

...
• 256K ACL or 128K ACLv6 (200G Duplex) TM&FIC1
• Power Consumption: 1200W NP5 (500G Duplex)
(200G Duplex)
• Buffer size: 2GB*8 （ TM ） + NP6
4*100GE
8GB*8 （ NP ） (200G Duplex) TM&FIC1

...
QSFP28 NP7 (500G Duplex)
• Buffer time: 30ms (200G Duplex)

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUI-1T ETH/DWDM Line Card

40*100G
Data Buffer Data Buffer Data Buffer
2*100GE 4*4GB DDR3 4*8GB DDR3 4*5GB DDR3
CFP2

...
NP0 iTM&FIC0
eTM0

Back Plane
(200G Duplex) (200G Duplex)
2*100GE
LPUI-8*100G-ETH/DWDM-CFP2 Line Card CFP2
• 4.5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6 NP1 iTM&FIC1
eTM1

...
(200G Duplex) (200G Duplex)
• 2M MAC
2*100GE
• 512K ACL or 128K ACLv6 CFP2 NP2 iTM&FIC2
eTM2 (200G Duplex) (200G Duplex)
• Power Consumptions: 800W
• Buffer size: 5GB*4 （ iTM ） +

...
2*100GE
NP3 iTM&FIC3
4GB*4 （ eTM ） + 8GB*4 （ NP ） CFP2 eTM3 (200G Duplex) (200G Duplex)
• Buffer time: 100ms

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUI-1T SFP+ Line Card

60*10G
Data Buffer Data Buffer Data Buffer
20*10GE 3*4GB DDR3 3*8GB DDR3 3*5GB DDR3
SFP+

...
NP0 iTM&FIC0
eTM0

Back Plane
(200G Duplex) (200G Duplex)
LPUI-60*10G-SFP+ Line Card
20*10GE
• 4.5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6

...
SFP+
• 2M MAC NP1 iTM&FIC1
eTM1
(200G Duplex) (200G Duplex)
• 384K ACL or 128K ACLv6
• Power Consumption: 620W
Buffer size: 5GB*3 （ iTM ） +

...
•
20*10GE NP2 iTM&FIC2
eTM2
4GB*3 （ eTM ） + 8GB*3 （ NP ） SFP+ (200G Duplex) (200G Duplex)
• Buffer time: 100ms

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 LPUF-480G Line Card

LPUF-480G
Data Buffer Data Buffer Data Buffer
2*5GB DDR3 2*8GB DDR3 2*2GB HMC
6*10GE
SFP+

...
LPUF-480 NP0
eTM0

Back Plane
6*10GE (200G Duplex)
SFP+
Sub-card Sub-card Sub-card
2*100G OTN/ETH

...
24*1000M/10G SFP+ 12*10G OTN/ETH
SFP+ SFP+ iTM&FIC1
• 4.5M FIBv4 or 2M FIBv6 (200G Duplex)
6*10GE
• 2M MAC SFP+

• 256K ACL or 128K ACLv6

...
6*10GE
eTM2 NP1
• Power Consumption: 517W SFP+
(200G Duplex)
• Buffer size: 2GB*2 （ iTM ） + 5GB*2 （ eTM ） + 8GB*2
（ NP ）
• Buffer time: 100ms

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Breakout 100GE Interface Meet High Density 10G Port Demands
1 to 4 Breakout Cable （ 1*40GE to 4*10GE ） Breakout Box(1*40GE to 4*10GE)

QSFP28 Line Card QSFP28 Line Card

40Gbps optical module(10km) 40Gbps optical module(10km)

10m Single Module Fiber

Breakout Fiber
width*depth*height=442mm*164mm*43.6mm

• 15m single module fiber

• 15m multi module fiber
• 25m multi module fiber
• 100m multi module fiber

Normal LC Fiber
Normal LC Fiber

ODF or Network Equipment ODF or Network Equipment

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NE9000-20/NE9000-8 Optical Module List

LPUI-40*100G LPUI-16*100G
LPUI- subCard:24*1
LPUI-20*100G subCard-8*100G SubCard:12*10G SubCard:2*100G
60*10G 000M/10G
LPUI-16*100G LPUI-8*100G

100GE QSFP28 • 10km, 0.07km, 2km √

100GE CFP2 DWDM • 1200km √

CFP2 • √ √
100GE 10km, 40km, 0.1km
40GE QSFP+ • 10km, 0.1km, 10km,40km √
SFP+ OTN • 10km, 40km, 80km √
100GE
100GE SFP+ DWDM • 80km √ √ √
SFP+ BIDI • 10km, 40km √ √ √
100GE
SFP+ CWDM • 70km, difference nm
√ √ √
100GE
100GE SFP+ • 0.3km, 10km, 40km,80km √ √ √
eSFP • √
100GE 500m,
10km,40km,80km,100km √
100GE 1Gbps • 100m

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NE9000 Fan N + 1 Backup to Ensure High Reliable Equipment Operation
NE9000-20/NE9000-8

NE9000-20 advance air channel MPU/SFU/LPU board

• Independent cooling for each board, to prevent the board

Air out
Air-in overheating, high reliability

• Independent air duct for each

board(SFU/LPU)

Frontward Chassis
maintenance
• Independent maintenance and non-intervene for each
LPU component
FAN
SFU • Replacement board do not affect the machine cooling
Backward
LPU maintenance

• NE9000-20: SFUs has 4 Fan modules ,

• FAN N + 1 backup, fan short-term failure does not affect
LPUs has 8 Fan modules to cool
• NE9000-8: SFUs has 2 Fan modules , the cool
LPUs has 3 Fan modules to cool

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Low-Power Design in Solar Architecture
Highly integrated & low chip count - ↓30% Algorithmic Search Engine -↓10%
Multi-voltage threshold

2.0 1.8 Leading Chipset Technology 25.0

1.8

1.6
1.5
20.0 NP
1.4
20
1.2
1.2 15.0

Unit power consumption

1
1.0 0.9

0.8 Industry: high-

Supply voltage

10.0
0.6

0.4
9
power TCAM
5.0

TCAM
6
4.5
0.2 2.6

0.0 0.0
180 130 90 65 40

Voltage (V)
Power consumption (nW/Mhz/gate)

Industry ： TM and FIC NP+ ASE

Huawei ：
Huawei: low-power
TM FIC TM/FIC Integrated ASE+DDR
TM/FIC DDR

Industry Huawei • In-house NP with ASE

RL • Use DDR to replace high-power TCAM
DDR
DRAM

Use lower power DDR instead of RLRAM)

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3-level Frequency Scaling

Dynamic frequency & resource management in response to Processor NP

Complex Load
traffic load Free Threads Status
in ATOM0
• NP self-adjusting Power Dynamic
Traffic Free Threads Manager Frequency
• Freq down/up causes no packet loss & no backpressure in ATOM1 Unit Scaling
... (PMU) (DFS)
Free Threads
in ATOM10

To processor complex blocks

PMU
Heavy Load
12
Heavy Load Immediately
9 3 Immediately
6

Light Load Eg. 50% load

12
for specific time
9 3

Light Load
Full 2/3 Full for specific time 1/2 Full
Clock Clock Clock
Each slow down step can save ~6W

Normal Load Normal Load Normal Load

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Auto Activate/Deactivate ATOMs

Smart core disabling

ATOM Group ATOM Group ATOM Group

G0 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G0 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G0 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5

Full • Automatically adjusted

Threshold
• Deactivate 1 ATOM Group can save ~1.2W
Starve • No packet loss & no backpressure
Threshold

Load monitoring and decision making

Load redistribution ATOM disabling

Smart core enabling

ATOM Group ATOM Group

G0 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G0 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5

Together with the freq scaling mechanism, when load is

Full low the power of each NP is recued by 12W, and power
Threshold
of LPU is saved by 5% to 7%

Starve
Threshold
Load monitoring and decision making
Activating ATOM

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 Contents

2. NE9000 Product Introduction

2.1 Hardware Introduction
2.2 Product Features

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SR: Unified High-Performance Tunneling Protocol
SR: Segment Routing, floods label information using the extended IGP protocol

Simplified O&M
 Fewer protocols for deployment and unified label planning for
network-wide devices
 Fast and easy fault locating

Strong Evolution Capability

 Smooth capacity expansion of live networks
 Collaborative deployment between legacy networks and SDN
networks, accelerating smooth evolution of live networks

More Reliable
Traditional tunneling SR
 Full-scenario fast protection technologies supported
RSVP label distribution
LDP label distribution IGP route, label Deployment Scenarios
IGP route MPLS stack forwarding  Scenario where traditional TE is deployed
MPLS forwarding

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VXLAN: Overlay Tunneling Technology
Virtualized cloud DCs require networks capable of massive user access and isolation. Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) technology was
developed to address this requirement.
• 24-bit VNIs for user identification, supporting 16M
VM VM tenant/application access

Eth Hdr Payload Eth Hdr Payload

• Standard MAC over UDP packet encapsulation, without the
requirement of protocol stack upgrade.
L2/L3
NVE NVE
Benefits:
ETH Hdr IP Hdr UDPHdr VXLAN ID ETH Hdr Payload • Capable of bearing more tenant users
Outer Header (network) Inner Header (VM) VXLAN VNIs can identify up to 16M virtual networks, which allow
data centers to accommodate more tenant users.

DCN/DCI CloudVPN WAN access

• Simplified network management
Virtual networks and physical networks are decoupled and can be
planned independently. In addition, tenant users can plan virtual
SDN controller
networks based on their own requirements, without the need to
consider physical networks.
DC DCI DC
WAN DC • Improved forwarding
Only VXLAN edge devices need to learn MAC addresses,
VXLAN VXLAN VXLAN VXLAN reducing the network burden brought about by MAC address
learning.

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EVPN: Next-Gen Unified VPN Bearer Technology
Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN)
Layer 2 P2P leased line Layer 2 P2MP leased
line
RR
VLL VPLS PE
2

T-LDP BGP-AD&LDP VS BGP MAC

learning
Forwarding plane: MAC learning PE1
(Full-network flooding)
PE3

 BGP control plane-based learning of MAC, supports flexible

 Unable to handle the MAC learning of massive policy control, reduces unknown unicast traffic, prevents MAC
virtual machines/tenants of the cloud era storm, and supports massive MAC learning.
 Layer 2 loop prevention requires congestion of  Unified L2VPN/L3VPN control plane protocol, reducing
some links, wasting bandwidth network complexity
 Massive full-mesh connections involve  Uses RR to solve the full connection problem, simplifying
 complex configuration. O&M management
 Multi-homing supports Active-Active and load balancing. No
link resources
are wasted.

Flexible and Easy Deployment Efficient Bandwidth Utilization Easy Maintenance

 Reduces unknown traffic and  Fewer protocols to be
 Applies to more usage scenarios.
improves forwarding maintained
 Reduces network deployment
 Load balancing improves bandwidth  Fast fault locating
complexity.
utilization.

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PBB-EVPN
PBB-EVPN consumes less system resources
1
(CPU and memory) than EVPN.
Ethernet i-evpn1 EVPN Forwarder
Access
b-evpn1
User MAC Next Hop
i-evpn2 Address
MAC 1 PE3
Core MPLS
i-evpn3 MAC 2 PE4 Public MAC Next Hop
The control plane
b-evpn2 MAC 1 PE1
The control plane only needs to store
MAC 2 PE2 a small number of
i-evpn4 must store a
large number of MAC 3 PE3 public MAC
MPLS Label MAC N PEN addresses of PEs.
user MAC MAC 4 PE4
EVPN Label EVPN Label
B-DMAC B-DMAC
addresses.
B-DMAC
B-SMAC B-SMAC B-SMAC EVPN PBB-EVPN
PBB Header I-SID I-SID I-SID
C-DMAC C-DMAC C-DMAC C-DMAC Number of user MAC
C-SMAC C-SMAC C-SMAC C-SMAC EVPN PE addresses stored on a PE PBB-EVPN PE
Data Data Data Data

Traffic Direction

PBB-EVPN does not need a large number of

PBB-EVPN benefits: 2 C-MAC updates in All-Active multi-homing
scenarios.
 User MAC addresses are stored only on the data
plane, saving system resources (CPU and Withdraw MAC 1 W i t
hd
Wi
th
Withdraw MAC 2 ra dr
memory). …
Withdraw MAC N
w
on
eb
aw
on
Withdraw B-MAC 1 e
y
 If an AC interface fails in multi-homing scenarios, MAC 1
on
e C-MAC 1
MAC 2 C-MAC 2 B-MAC1 B-MAC2
only one B-MAC must be withdrawn, reducing … …
C-MAC
MAC
network resource consumption. N N
PE1 PE3
PE1 PE3
 User MAC addresses are learned on the data EVPN
PE2
PBB-EVPN
PE2 PE4
PE4
plane, with high efficiency. CE1 CE2 CE1 CE2

 MAC migration is implemented on the data plane, B-MAC1 B-MAC2

which is unaware to the control plane, and

therefore is quickly responded.

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NG MVPN: Improved Multicast VPN Technology
NG MVPN is a next-generation framework for IP multicast traffic traversing BGP/MPLS VPN. In this framework, a variety of
multicast service-carrying tunnel types, MVPN member discovery modes, and private network multicast signaling transmission
modes are defined. Users can flexibly choose the most suitable mode based on their actual needs.

Conventional Rosen MVPN Next-Gen Multicast VPN NG MVPN

Server
Server

PE-1
PE-1

PIM GRE

P2MP MPLS

PE-3
PE-2
PE-3
PE-2

Supported
Deployment O&M Protection
Tunnels
Convention Unicast and multicast
al  PIM full-mesh use different forwarding
IP tunnel --
Rosen  Large amounts of PIM packets planes, and the O&M is
MVPN complex.
 Full-mesh not required Uses MPLS protection
Uniform O&M of unicast
 Multicast packets are transmitted technology.
Next-Gen IP Tunnel and multicast forwarding
through BGP and are updated Packets are forwarded
NG MVPN MPLS Tunnel incrementally and are not sent
planes, using MPLS
by labels without
forwarding
periodically. exposing the PEs.

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Port expansion ， Satellite with Small Box
Provide higher density GE interfaces to connect legacy network, easy to deployment!

Fixed Port Flexible Port

58 GE Ports per Box

NE9000 series M2E/F/H

NE9000

Master
Chassis Line Cards support function
8*100GBase LAN-CFP2 Line Card
NE9000 60*10GBase LAN/WAN-SFP+ Line
Card
AP0:M2E AP1:M2E AP2:M2E

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BFD for Fast Fault Detection
Static/Dynamic BFD Single-hop/multi-hop BFD
Single-hop BFD link detection
Dynamic BFD link detection
BFD packets
Dynamic negotiation

Multi-hop BFD link detection

Static BFD link detection
BFD packets
Static configuration

Huawei has extended the IETF standard and developed innovative Single-hop BFD for fault detection on direct links between routers
static BFD, allowing standard dynamic BFD and static BFD on the same network segment
configuration through statically specified local and remote Multi-hop BFD for fault detection on indirect links between routers
discriminators. on different network segments

Multicast BFD Future-oriented BFDv6

Association between multicast BFD and unicast BFD
Unicast BFD for detecting Eth-Trunk status
BFD for OSPFv3 BFD for VRRPv6

BFD for ISISv6 BFD for BGP4+

Multicast BFD for detecting member interface status

BFD for NGN …

When BFD is used to detect the physical status of a link, specifying
the peer IP address may fail. (In some cases, for example, Eth- As the network scale increases, the NGN is inevitable. BFD
Trunk member links are used, the peer end does not have any IP support for IPv6 is being improved along with the transition to IPv6
address.) If this is the case, the BFD session must be bound to a networks.
multicast address to send BFD control packets to this address.

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FRR Enhance robustness
IP FRR LDP FRR
Ra R2
Interface 1 Network L52
IP: 1.1.1.1 10.10.10.1
Interface 2 R5
IP: 2.1.1.2 Loo1:5.5.5.5
Rc L21
Interface 1 L32
IP: 2.1.1.1 Interface 0 R1
IP: 1.1.1.2
R4
Rb R3

When the primary link is available, IP FRR route-policies can be set to send
forwarding information of the backup route to the forwarding engine. If the Master and backup labels can be used to complete Huawei
primary link becomes unavailable and the forwarding engine detects the fault, switching in 50 ms upon network faults.
it uses the backup route to forward traffic before the routes on the control
patent
plane converge.

VPN FRR MPLS TE FRR

BFD for LSP failure detection
P P
NE40E Master LSP NE40E
PE PE

IP/MPLS Backbone MPLS Core

NE40E Backup LSP NE40E

Multi-service P P

 If BFD detects a fault, it triggers VPN FRR, allowing fast convergence

of faults on tunnel endpoints.
 Flexible deployment, partial protection of core links, link switching in 50 ms,
 The fault rectification time is irrelevant to the number of Huawei unaware to users
private network routes.
 Core devices may be connected through transmission devices, such as
patent
 It is simple, reliable, and easy to deploy. MSTPs. BFD can detect transmission device faults and trigger TE switching,
 Except for fast fault detection between PEs, BFD implementation ensuring service continuity.
is independent of other devices.
 Huawei was first in the industry to provide BFD for TE FRR.

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NSR Enhance robustness

NSR enables the system to restore services immediately after a master/slave switchover occurs on the control plane.
This prevents the control plane on a neighbor device from detecting the fault and being affected.

NSR provided by the NE9000

supports up to 10 types of services.
Non-Stop Routing OSPF PIM
(NSR)
If the backup control plane fails: ISIS L3VPN
 Services carried on the device are
not affected. BGP L2VPN
 Master/backup switching does not
involve neighbors. LDP ARP
 Control flows are not interrupted
during switching. TE VRRP

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 Contents
1. NE9000 Product Overview
2. NE9000 Product Introduction
2.1 Hardware Introduction
2.2 Product Introduction
3. NE9000 Network Scenario

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Usage Scenarios

 National Backbone Network Solution

 Provincial Backbone Network Solution
 IP Bearer Network Solution
 IPv6 Backbone Network Solution

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National Backbone Network Solution

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Provincial Backbone Network Solution

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IP Bearer Network Solution

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IPv6 Backbone Network Solution

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 Summary

Through this communication, we can see that the NE9000 has the following features:
 Powerful Forwarding Capability
 Robust Security Design
 Carrier-class Reliability and Manageability
 Well-Designed QoS Mechanism
 Comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 Features
 Ideal L2VPN Solution
 Flexible VS Functions

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