Product Overview; About The H3C S12500 Routing Switch Series - H3C S12500 Installation Manual

Product overview

This chapter includes these sections:

About the H3C S12500 Routing Switch Series

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Physical architecture
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Backplane
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• Fan tray
Power supply system
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About the H3C S12500 Routing Switch Series
The H3C S12500 Routing Switch Series is a line of 100G new-generation core/data center switching
platforms. You can deploy the series at the core layer and distribution layer of large-scale data centers,
enterprise networks, campus networks, large-sized clusters, and grid computing networks.
The H3C S12500 Routing Switch Series delivers the following benefits:
Advanced multi-level, multi-plane, non-blocking CLOS switching architecture.
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Ultra-high port density and a variety of interfaces, including 10-GE XFP fiber (optical) ports, 10-GE
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SFP+ fiber ports, 100/1000 Mbps SFP fiber ports, and GE RJ-45 copper (electrical) ports.
• Distributed ingress cache technology enables good accommodation of bursts in data center
networks and high-performance computing networks.
Innovative H3C Intelligent Resilient Framework 2 (IRF2) technology enables multiple connected
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S12500 switches to be managed as a single logical switch, increasing network resilience,
availability and performance while also reducing network complexity.
• Independent control engines, detection engines, and maintenance engines offer powerful control
capability and high reliability.
Support for the open application architecture (OAA) cards that provide value-added services such
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as intrusion prevention, firewall, NetStream, load balancing, and application control gateway.
Table 1 S12500 models
Model
S12508-AC
S12508-DC
S12518-AC
S12518-DC
MPU slots Line card slots
2 8
2 8
2 18
2 18
Switching fabric module slots
9
9
9
9
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