ODS010001 Quidway

S8500 Series Routing

Switch System
Overview
ISSUE 1.3

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Foreword

Huawei S8500 Series Routing Switches are

orientated to operate at the convergence layer of
large MAN, or at the core layer of the small MANs, or
at the backbone of large enterprise network and
campus network.

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References

S8500 Installation Manual

S8500 Operation Manual

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Objectives

Upon completion this course, you will be able to:

Know about the hardware structure of S8500

Know about the software structure of S8500

Know about the Characteristics of S8500

Know about the typical application of S8500

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Contents
1.

S8500 Product Specification

2.

Hardware Structure

3.

Software Structure & Characteristics

4.

Typical Application

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The Evolution of S8500

Step 1

Step 2

S8505T

S8505

S8512

Step 4

Step 3

Step 5

S8505E

S8508E

S8512E

S8508V

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S8502

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S8505 Appearance

1. Chassis

2. Board Area

3. Fan Area
3

4. Power Supply Area

6

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5. POE Entry
6. becket

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The Board Area of S8505

0

SRPU

SRPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

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S8508 Appearance

1. Chassis

2. Board Area

3. Fan Area
3

4. Power Supply Area

6

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5. POE Entry
6. becket

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The Board Area of S8508

0

LPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

SRPU

SRPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

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S8512 Appearance

1. Chassis

2. Board Area

3. Fan Area

4. Power Supply Area

5. POE Entry
6

6. becket

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The Board Area of S8512

0

LPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

LPU

SRPU

SRPU

LPU

LPU

10

LPU

11

LPU

12

LPU

13

LPU

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S8500 Specification
Attributes

S8505

S8508

S8512

Switching
capacity

300Gbps

480Gbps

720Gbps

Backplane
capacity
Packet
forwarding
speed
Number of
slots

750Gbps

1.2Tbps

1.8Tbps

178Mpps

285Mpps

428Mpps

10

14

Number of
LPU

12

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Contents
1.

S8500 Product Specification

2.

Hardware Structure

3.

Software Structure & Characteristics

4.

Typical Application

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The Introduction to S8500

Boards
S8500 totally has three types of Boards

SRPU

LPU

L3+ Board

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S8500 SRPU(1)

SRPA has no crossbar and CF card. It can only be used for S8505

SRPB is used for S8512 and SRPC is used for S8505 and S8505T

SRP1N/SRP2N/SRP2E series is used for

S8505E/S8508/S8508V/S8512E and supports PoE

SRP1N0/SRP2N0/SRP2E0 used for S8512E

SRP1N1/SRP2N1/SRP2E1 used for S8508 and S8508V

SRP1N2/SRP2N2/SRP2E2 used for S8505E

SRP1N3/SRP2N3/SRP2E3 has a clock pinch and is special and

needed for system clock synchronization

SRP1M used for S8502

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S8500 SRPU(2)

Taking SRP1N1 for Example

SRP1N1

CF card

RS232/485

LPU status

AUX

RUN

LED

interface

SFS

CF status

10/100

LED

Base-Tx

Console

Reset Key

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ACT ALM

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S8500 SRPU(3)

SRPU board provides the following functions:

Implement such functions as switching, route protocol

processing, equipment management control and
monitor, and clock processing
Use 1+1 backup and 1:1 load sharing design, realize
auto protection switchover and ensure the
uninterrupted system running
Monitor the environment and state, including the state
of temperature, fan and power, and controls the
rotation speed of each fan

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S8500 SRPU(4)

Provide a standard IDE interface, which can be inserted into

CF card (Compact Flash Card) to provide data storage
capability for system (the capacity of CF card is 256 Mbytes
by default, which can be expanded as required)
Back up the CF card and FAT table through NVRAM to save
the configuration data of user
Provide the running indicator for Line Processing Units (LPUs)
for the front panel
Provide multiple management interfaces such as 10/100M
Ethernet port and RS232 serial port, have an independent
management channel for each LPU board and provide
uniform management and maintenance for system

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S8500 LPU(1)

There are four types of LPU: B/C/CA/DB

Type B LPU can not support MPLS

Type C/CA LPU can support MPLS, the difference of

CA and C is : type CA LPU support 256k routes and
support MPLS VLL, but type C LPU only support
128k routes, and can not support MPLS VLL

Type DB LPU can support IPv6 on the hardware, can

not support MPLS

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LPU Board
Type

Type B

Type C

Type CA

Type DB

FE

GE

LSB2FT48C0
LSB1FP20C0

LSB1GP12B0
LSB1GP24B0
LSB1GT12B0
LSB1GT24B0
LSB1GP12C0
LSB1GT12C0

LSB2FT48CA
0
LSB1FP20CA
0

LSB1GP12CA0
LSB1GP24CA0
LSB1GT12CA0
LSB1GT24CA0

LSB2FT48B0
LSB1FP20B0

Mixed

WAN

10GE
LSB1XK1B0

LSB1F32GB0
LSB1P4G8B0

LSB1XP2B0
LSB1XP4B0

LSB1F32GA0
LSB1P4G8C0
LSB1F32GCA0
LSB1P4G8CA0

LSB1GP24DB0
LSB1GT24DB0
LSB1GV48DB0

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LSB1XK1CA0
LSB1SP4CA0

LSB1XP2CA0

LSB1UP1CA0

LSB1XP4CA0
LSB1XK1DB0
LSB1XP2DB0
LSB1XP4DB0

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S8500 L3+ LPU Board

NAT: LSB1NATB0

VPLS : LSB1VPNB0

FW: LSB1FW8DB0

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S8500 Hardware Sructure(1)

Full mesh and Crossbar

Full mesh: each of the two LPUs are connected by

4*3.125G SERDES link

44

4 4

FA
FX910

1 PP LPU

4 4 4

FA
FX910

4 4 4 4

FA
FX910

4 4 4 4

FA
FX910

4 4 4 4

FA
FX910

1 PP LPU 1 PP LPU 1 PP LPU 1 PP LPU

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S8500 Hardware Sructure(2)

Full mesh and Crossbar

Crossbar: each LPU is connected to Crossbar by

6*3.125G SERDES link
Switch Fabric (Crossbar)
(Active)

Switch Fabric (Crossbar)

(Standby)

FA
FX910

FA
FX910

2 PP LPU

FA
FX910

1 PP LPU

FA
FX910

FA
FX910

1 PP LPU 1 PP LPU

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Power Supply

AC

Rated voltage 100V 240V

50 60Hz

SRPU

Max. power output

SRPU

1200W 8505/8508/8512

DC

LPU
LPU

Rated voltage 48V

LPU

Max. power output 1200W

8505 2000W 8508/8512

LPU

1 1 backup

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Fan frame

Air filter

2000W 8508/8512

LPU

AC or DC power

PoE
entry

S8505E

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AC or DC power

Fan Area

Directly connected to the backboard

Fault signals are collected and sent to SRPU

for processing

Supporting hot plugging.

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Contents
1.

S8500 Product Specification

2.

Hardware Structure

3.

Software Structure & Characteristics

4.

Typical Application

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S8500 Forwarding flow

backplane

LPU

FE/GE/10GE

PHY

PP
PP

FA
FA

CPU
CPU

FE/GE/10GE

PHY

PP
PP

SRPU

Crossbar
Crossbar

CPU
CPU

FA
FA

CPU
CPU

Switch
Switch

BUS
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PP Intraboard forwarding Flow

Cells
Buffer
SDRAM

Buffer
SDRAM

FA1

Buffer
SDRAM

FA2

PP1

Buffer
SDRAM

PP2

Source
Packet
Port
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Destination
Port

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PP Interboard forwarding Flow

Cells
Data
Buffer
SDRAM

Buffer
SDRAM

FA1

Buffer
SDRAM

FA2

PP1

Buffer
SDRAM

PP2

Source
Packet
Port
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Destination
Packet
Port

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Forwarding Characteristics Of
S8505

Powerful forwarding Characteristics of S8505

Conversion capacity: 300Gbit/s

Packet switching rate: 180Mpps

Max configuration of 10GE ports under the wire speed mode: 10

Max configuration of GE ports under the wire speed mode: 120

Max configuration of FE ports under the wire speed mode: 240

Number of VLAN: 4K

MAC address table: 32K

IP routing table: 128K

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Forwarding Characteristics Of
S8508

Powerful forwarding Characteristics of S8508

Conversion capacity: 480Gbit/s

Packet switching rate: 288Mpps

Max configuration of 10GE ports under the wire speed mode: 16

Max configuration of GE ports under the wire speed mode: 192

Max configuration of FE ports under the wire speed mode: 384

Number of VLAN: 4K

MAC address table: 64K

IP routing table: 128K

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Forwarding Characteristics Of
S8512

Powerful forwarding Characteristics of S8512

Conversion capacity: 720Gbit/s

Packet Switching Rate: 432Mpps

Max configuration of 10GE ports under the wire speed mode:

24

Max configuration of GE ports under the wire speed mode: 288

Max configuration of FE ports under the wire speed mode: 576

Number of VLAN: 4K

MAC address table: 64K

IP routing table: 128K

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Service Characteristics Of
S8500
(I)
Abundant service characteristics (refers to manuals)

VLAN characteristics

802.1Q

GVRP GARP VLAN Registration Protocol

STP characteristics

STP RSTP

MSTP max to 256 instances

Flow control characteristics

IEEE 802.3x full duplex

backpressure half duplex

Broadcast storm suppression characteristics

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Service Characteristics of
S8500
(II)
Multi-cast functions

GMRP GARP Multicast Registration Protocol

IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

PIM-DM Protocol-Independent Multicast-Dense Mode

PIM-SM Protocol-Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode

Route functions

Static route

RIP Routing Information Protocol v1/v2

OSPF Open Shortest Path First

BGP Border Gateway Protocol

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Relay

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Service Characteristics of
S8500
(III)
Supporting port aggregation

Security characteristics

Supporting VRRP (Virtual Redundancy Routing

Protocol)

QoS function

Management characteristics

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Contents
1.

S8500 Product Specification

2.

Hardware Structure

3.

Software Structure & Characteristics

4.

Typical Application

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L2/L3 Forwarding

S8500

Branch A

S8500

VLAN
TRUNK

IP MAN

S8500

Branch B

S8500
rt g
Po orin
irr
M

S8500

Layer3
Interworking
between VLANs

VLAN1
0
User A
MAC_A

Ports
Binding

VLAN20

...

VLAN Aggregation;
ARP PROXY
interworking
between subVLANs

VLAN 2

VLAN
9

User B
MAC_B

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MPLS BGP VPN

PE

CE

CE

S8500
P
CE

P
PE
S8500

S8500

S8500
MPLS
CORE

CE

P
S8500

PE
S8500
CE

CE

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Embedded VPN

Public VPN1

Public VPN1

Private VPN1
Sub-PE

PE

Private VPN2
MBGP

S8500

PE

MPLS Core

S8500

Sub-PE

Private VPN2

MBGP

Private VPN3

Enterprise

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Private VPN1

Private VPN3

Enterprise

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VLL
L2 MPLS VPN VLL Virtual Leased Lines
IP/MPLS Network

LINK Table

IN

OUT

LSP 1

VLAN 10

S8500

CE
VLAN 10

CE
source

LSP 1

S8500

[Link]

VLAN 10

S8500
VLAN 20

LSP 2

CE
[Link]

Route Table

IN

OUT

[Link]/16

VLAN 10

[Link]/16

VLAN 20

VLAN 20

LINK Table

IN

OUT

VLAN 10

LSP 1

VLAN 20

LSP 2

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LINK Table

IN

OUT

LSP 2

VLAN 20

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VPLS
MAC
S8500
4.4.4
VLAN100

S8500
LSP5

LSP4

PE

MAC
3.3.3
VLAN100

PE
LSP3

LSP6

MPLS Network
LSP1

S8500
LSP2

PE

VLAN

MAC

Port

LSP

100

1.1.1

3/1/1

VLAN100

100

VLAN100

2/1/1

100
MAC 1.1.1

2.2.2

MAC 2.2.2

3.3.3

LSP2

100

4.4.4

LSP1

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QinQ

CE1

Config Trunk VLAN

200-300 for ports of CE

PE1
Unsymmetrical Connection

User Network 1

Service Provider Network

Symmetrical
Connection

Config QinQ for the

input port of PE, and
belongs to VLAN3

PE2
Symmetrical
Connection

Configure QinQ
for the input port
of PE, and
belongs to VLAN3

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Unsymmetrical Connection

CE2

User Network 2
Configure Trunk VLAN
200-300 for ports of CE

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Comprehensive QoS
Token barrel

discard

Queue0

discard

Entrance

Receiving
datagram

source add
destination add
ACL source port
destination portCAR
protocol type
TOS

FIFO
PQ
RED
WRED CQ
WFQ
CBWFQ

Queue2

QueueN
classify

output

Queue1

Congestion
inspecting/avoiding

Into Queue
queue

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CAR
GTS

Traffic
monitor/shaping Keep sending

Out
queue

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Multicast
Multicast flows in a network
Multicast flows sent to
users

Multicast Source

...

L2
PIM

Internet

S8500

S8500
PIM
S8500

IGMP
IGM

L2

Receiver

P
g
M
IG opin
o
Sn
Receiver

L2

...
...

IGMP

L2

g
opin
o
n
PS

L2

...

IGMP

Receiver

Receiver

Receiver

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NAT
[Link]

S8500

N
A
T

IP MAN

[Link]

[Link]

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RPR

Student
Zone A

West Section
S8500

Student
Zone B

S8500

Teaching
Zone A

RPR 10G

CERNE
T

S8500
Network
Centre

ChinaNe
t

Teachin
g Zone
B

Teachers
Dormitory Zone

Servers Cluster
(Network
Centre)

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MSTP+VRRP

Root Bridge

MSTI 2

Department 1

VRRP Group

Root Bridge

MSTI 1

Department 2 Department 3 Department 4 Department 5

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Low Cost, High Bandwidth FullEthernet MAN

Internet

Core Layer

10GE

Convergence Layer

Ethernet Access Gateway

Access Layer

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S8500

S6500

MA5200

S3500/S3000/S2000

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Alteration of MANCore Layer

For small or medium scale
MAN, S8500s are adopted
to upgrade the existing
switch nodes in core layer.

Internet

NMP
SMP

S8505

S
Core Layer

Convergence
Layer

S8505

S6506

S8505

S6506

S6506

S3026/3050 S3026/3050 S3026/3050MA5200

Access
Layer

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L&M Routers

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IP Telecom Network
Data

Signal
Voice

10GE

Video

Core Layer

Data

S8500
RM9000
S8500

10GE

10GE
S8500

10GE

Convergence
Layer

10GE

S8500

MA5200
GE

Access
Layer

GE

MA5100
IAD

xDSL

MA5200

S8500

E1/E3/ATM

Big Account
IAD

L2

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L2

NE16/08
IAD

L2

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L2

Optical MAN
10GE
10GE
S8500

OC-192 SONET/DWDM

S8500

10GE
S8500

Realizes long distance Ethernet transmission by

using 10GE ports to connect SONET access
equipment directly

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Data Center
S8500 is applied in core layer of data

center/capacity building

Internet

S8500

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Campus and Enterprise

S8500 is applied in core layer of
Network

large enterprise network/campus

network

Internet

S8500

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