Device Overview; System Overview - Huawei CX600-8 Hardware Description

HUAWEI CX600-8/16/X3/X8/X16 Metro Service Platform
Hardware Description

3.1 Device Overview

This section describes the system overview, main components and slot layout, and specifications
and board lists.

3.1.1 System Overview

This section gives an overview of the system.
System Overview
The CX600 series adopt a centralized routing engine and distributed forwarding architecture.
This helps to provide rich and flexible service and to perform large-capacity forwarding.
The CX600-X16 has an integrated chassis, with main components which all support hot
swapping.
The CX600-X16 supports all the Line Processing Units (LPUs) on the former CX600, but the
Main Processing Units (MPUs) and Switch Fabric Units (SFUs) are new.
As shown in
system is 12.58 Tbit/s.
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Figure 3-1, the CX600-X16 has 16 LPU slots. The switching capacity of the entire
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