Overview; System Overview - Huawei ME60 Hardware Description

HUAWEI ME60 Multiservice Control Gateway
Hardware Description

2.1 Overview

This section describes the system architecture, system features, components, slot layout and
system configurations.

2.1.1 System Overview

This section gives an overview of the system.
The ME60 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 ME60-X16 has an integrated chassis, with main components which all support hot
swapping.
The ME60-X16 supports all the Line Processing Units (LPUs) on the former ME60, but the
Main Processing Units (MPUs) and Switch and Fabric Units (SFUs) are new.
As shown in
system is 12.58 Tbit/s.
Figure 2-1 Appearance of the ME60-X16
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Figure 2-1, the ME60-X16 has 16 LPU slots.The switching capacity of the entire
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