Abstract

Huawei CloudEngine 12800 (CE12800) series switch is the high performance
core switch developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. facing data centers
and high end campuses. The CE12800 is available in six models - CE12804S, CE12808S, CE12804, CE12808, CE12812, and CE12816.

Huawei commissioned Tolly to evaluate their CE12800 series switch’s performance, virtualization capability, data center features and open architecture.

Tolly engineers verified that the CE12800 series switch supported 1 million
FIB table entries, virtualization capability with Huawei’s Cluster Switch
System (CSS), Virtual System (VS) and “CSS+VS” technologies, numerous data
center features including TRILL, EVN, FCoE, DCB, VXLAN gateway and NVGRE
gateway as well as high availability with ISSU and NSR. Engineers also verified
that the 12*1000GbE port line card on the CE12800 series switch provided
 100% line-rate forwarding.