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Huawei S6720-EI Series Next-Generation Enhanced 10GE Switches Feature Validation and Performance Evaluation

Sponsor: Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd
Huawei S6720-EI Series 10GE Switches Feature Validation and Performance Evaluation

Abstract

The S6720-EI series switches are high performance fixed switches developed by Huawei, providing high-density 10GbE service ports and 40GbE uplink ports with line-rate forwarding. Based on next-generation high-performance hardware and Huawei Versatile Routing Platform (VRP), the S6720-EI switches provide super large table capacity and a wide variety of services, comprehensive security policies, various QoS features and easy management and maintenance. All of these features make the S6720-EI an ideal choice as access switches in data centers or core switches in campus networks.

Tolly engineers evaluated Huawei S6720-EI series switches in multiple areas including the high-density 10GbE ports hardware, forwarding capability, table capacity, long-distance and high performance stack, security, MPLS, sFlow traffic statistics monitoring, Zero Touch Provisioning and high availability.