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 The NE40E-X8A consists of the data plane, control and management plane, and
monitoring plane, as shown in the figure above. This architecture improves system
reliability and facilitates upgrades on each plane.
 The data plane is responsible for high speed processing and non-blocking switching of
data packets. It encapsulates or decapsulates packets, forwards IPv4/IPv6/MPLS packets,
performs QoS as well as scheduling and internal high-speed switching, and collects
statistics.
 The control and management plane completes all control and management functions for
the system and is the core of the entire system. Control and management units process
protocols and signals, configure and manage the system, and display the system status.
 The monitoring plane monitors the ambient environment to ensure the secure and stable
operation of the system. It detects voltage levels, controls system power-on and power-off,
monitors the temperature, and controls fan modules. If a unit fails, the monitoring plane
isolates the faulty unit promptly so the other units remain unaffected.

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 Dimensions (H x W x D)
 930 mm x 442 mm × 650 mm (chassis main body dimensions)
 (36.64 in. x 17.40 i n. x 25.59 in.) Chassis main body dimensions
 930 mm x 442 mm × 750 mm (chassis dimensions including the chassis's front
and rear assembly and cable racks)
 (36.64 in. x 17.40 i n. x 29.53 in.) Chassis dimensions including the chassis's front
and rear assembly and cable racks

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 SRUs work in 1:1 backup mode

 SFUs work in 3+1 backup mode

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 The system draws air from the front and discharges air from the back. The air intake vent
resides above the board area on the front chassis; the air exhaust vent resides above the
board area on the rear chassis.
 The air filters on the air intake vents are vertically installed and featured with the curved
face, large area, and small windage resistance, helping to improve the heat dissipation
efficiency.

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 The black sponge air filteron the air intake vent is used to prevent dust from getting into
the system.
 To ensure good heat dissipation and ventilation for the system and to prevent the
accumulation of dust on an air filter, you need to clean the air filter regularly. It is
recommended that an air filter be cleaned at least once every three months and be
replaced once every year. When an air filter is placed in the dusty environment, it needs to
be cleaned more frequently.

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 Communication between servers requires a non-blocking network

 Parallel computing, 3D rendering, and search services require collaboration
between server clusters, resulting in a large amount of east-to-west traffic.
 VMs need to synchronize a large amount of data in real time to support flexible
deployment and dynamic migration.
 Incast model requires a dynamically deployable large buffer
 In collaborative computing, multiple nodes in a cluster send TCP data to the master
node simultaneously.
 This multipoint-to-point communication causes traffic bursts and congests the
network.

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 CMU: Centralized Monitoring Unit

 MPU: Main Processing Unit
 LPU: Line Process Unit
 SFU: Switch Fabric Unit

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 On core switches, cabling between line cards and switch fabric units is an important factor
that determines per slot bandwidth. A longer backplane cable and a higher rate indicate a
greater loss.
 The CE12800 uses an orthogonal architecture, which does not require backplane cables.
This architecture greatly increases system bandwidth and improves the evolution capability.
With an orthogonal design (three-level Clos architecture), service line cards and switch
fabric units of the CE12800 constitute a multi-level multi-plane switch fabric. This switch
fabric allows for unlimited capacity expansion, helping implement large-scale non-blocking
switching in data centers.
 Clos architecture has multiple levels, at each of which a switch unit is connected to all
switch units at a lower level. Clos architecture is non-blocking, re-arrangeable, and
scalable.

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 Huawei CE6800/5800 series switches are next-generation data center switches designed
for high-performance data centers. The CE6800 series switches support 10GE access, while
the CE5800 series switches support GE access.
 The CE6800/5800 series switches function as access switches, servers connect to
CE6800/5800 switches through GE/10GE uplinks; and CE6800/5800 switches connect to
core switches CE12800 through 10GE/40GE uplinks.
 CE6800/5800 switches provide high-performance 40GE ports, which can connect to high-
density 40GE line processing units (LPUs) on CE12800 switches to construct full-40G data
center networks.

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 CE6800/5800 switches use cutting-edge hardware platforms in the industry. By using a 1

U (1 U = 44.45 mm) box, CE6800/5800 switches provide high port densities and line-rate
forwarding capabilities. Next-generation, high-performance servers in super high density
arrangements can easily connect to CE6800/5800 switches.
 CE5850-48T4S2Q-EI: Provides forty-eight 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, four 10G
SFP+ Ethernet optical ports, and two 40G QSFP+ Ethernet optical ports.

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 CE6850-48T4Q-EI: Provides forty-eight 10G BASE-T Ethernet ports and four 40G QSFP+
Ethernet optical ports
 The 1.28Tbps exchange capacity, the industry‘s highest performance; 960Mpps
forwarding performance, L2/L3 wire-speed forwarding. 64 10GE interfaces at most, the
industry’s highest density, to meet Gigabit server density access needs. Supports four 40G
high-performance QSFP + interface, and the QSFP+ can be used as four 10GE interfaces to
allows flexible networking capability; 40GE uplink and CE12800 series work together to build
a non-blocking network platform.

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 CE6850-48S4Q-EI: Provides forty-eight 10G SFP+ Ethernet optical ports and four 40G
QSFP+ Ethernet optical ports.

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 The Agile Controller-DCN is deployed at the network control layer of the Huawei
CloudFabric DCN solution. Based on the open and high reliable distributed cluster
architecture, the Agile Controller-DCN can interconnect with mainstream cloud platforms
and computing management platforms to provide capabilities such as automatic
deployment, refined O&M, and multi-DC disaster recovery (DR).

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 Distributed basic service layer

 This layer provides basic middleware services for SDN-based distributed programming, including the OSGi container, Akka cluster
management, distributed cache, distributed database cache, and distributed lock. The OSGi container is provided by the Open
Network Operating System (ONOS) platform; Akka cluster management is implemented on the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform; other
distributed services are enhanced commercial functions developed using mainstream open-source components. This layer provides
reliability, performance, and security.
 The distributed model driven framework (MDF) provides a modular service architecture based on ODL model-driven service
abstraction layer (MD-SAL) to ensure separated running and scheduling of processes and threads of various service protocols. This
framework is compatible with MD-SAL interfaces to support enhanced functions, such as synchronous/synchronous RPC
encapsulation, routed RPC performance optimization, and high-performance DOM storage. The MDF framework integrates Kafka-
based distributed messaging service bus and distributed event management capability, providing reliability and performance.
 System engineering plane: This plane provides functions such as the Agile Controller-DCN cluster installation, deployment, scale-in, scale-out,
upgrade.
 System management plane: This plane provides system management capabilities, including configuration management, security management,
AAA management, service performance monitoring, and fault management.
 System service plane: This plane is the key for Agile Controller-DCN service implementation. It collects network resources in the southbound
and abstracts them for unified display and provides open northbound interfaces to provision services to SDN networks. This plane can be
further divided into the following layers:
 Northbound layer: This layer processes access protocols, manages security of northbound interfaces, and completes automatic
service provisioning in the background.
 Service layer: Various service applications required in DCN SDN solutions are deployed in this layer to provide network-level service
capabilities, such as DCN network service provisioning, Neutron, service function chain (SFC), and DCN operation, administration,
and maintenance (OAM).
 Infrastructure layer: This layer is built based on the ONOS core to provide management and control services on standard or
abstracted SDN core resources for upper-layer apps. The resources include devices, links, topology, hosts, packet transmit and
receive.
 NE layer: This layer provides the device abstraction level (DAL) capability to the upper layer and uses the NE driver and device driver
plug-in to realize adaptation and conversion of driver models.
 Southbound layer: This layer supports comprehensive standard DCN SDN southbound protocols, including configuration
management protocols NETCONF, JSON RPC, and SNMP, the device control protocol OpenFlow, and flow data collection protocol
sFlow.

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 1. Main menu area:Function as a main entrance to different functions of the Agile

Controller-DCN.
 2. General information area: Displays the following common information about the Agile
Controller-DCN from left to right
• User Name: Indicates the user name for logging in to the Agile Controller-DCN.
• Logout: used for logging out of the Agile Controller-DCN or switching login account.
• Notification Icon: Click the notification icon to display the Agile Controller-DCN alarms.
• Others
 3. Alarm indicator area: Shows severity and entries of uncleared alarms of the Agile
Controller-DCN. They are critical alarm number, major alarm number, minor alarm number,
and warning number, from left to right.
 4. Statistics information fresh area:Displays refreshed device status and services on the
statistic graph.
 Statistics area: Shows device statuses and services, including measurement of network
device statuses and physical network device statuses.

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 Physical Resource:
 You can manage physical resources in a Fabric network. Network devices and third-party devices are
automatically discovered or manually imported to the Agile Controller-DCN and then network
devices, servers, and third-party devices are added to resource pools.
 Link Management:
 You can manage device links. Links are automatically discovered to the Agile Controller-DCN
through automatic link discovery or you can add links to the Agile Controller-DCN by manually
creating links. You can set device balancing by managing device links.
 Network Management:
 You can create and configure resource pools to manage Fabric network resources. You can add
fabric network devices to resource pools, synchronize networks, set device roles, and allocate
network resources to complete interconnection between the Agile Controller-DCN and peripheral
systems.
 TOPO:
 Network topologies are displayed, including physical topologies, logical topologies, and application
topologies.
 Resource Pool Configuration:
 You can configure network resources. When planning a network, you need to preconfigure not only
fixed resources such as egress public IP and VPC communication IP but also public resources shared
by tenants such as bridge domains (BDs), global VNI, global VLAN, interconnection VLAN, and
interconnection IP. The Agile Controller-DCN can allocate the resources to tenants.

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 Performance Monitor:
 Physical devices can be monitored. Status of fabric network devices and traffic statistics on
the entire network are displayed.
 Alarm Management:
 The Agile Controller-DCN information is displayed. Alarm information can be monitored in
real time. You can clear alarms according to the alarm information and handling
suggestions to ensure proper service running.
 Cluster:
 You can set cluster thresholds, including CPU, memory, and hard disk thresholds on the
cluster host.
 Diagnosis:
 Logical resources are monitored. You can view the port, subnet, network, and route
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 Administrator:
 An administrator manages the account list, authorization list, role list, password, account,
and users.
 Log:
 The Agile Controller-DCN records logs including the administrator operation logs on the
Agile Controller-DCN and logs generated during Agile Controller-DCN running for auditing
and fault location.
 System Settings:
 You can configure the authentication server, email server, data dumping, and logs and
alarms reporting, and set system whitelist.
 You can apply for a license or perform routine inspections on the license to ensure that the
licence meets service requirements.
 Attack Guard:
 Each OVS device can only send the packet-in packets with the maximum rate according to
packet rate limit. The OVS devices discard the excessive packets to save the Agile
Controller-DCN resources and improve performance.

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