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Quidway S9300 Series

Terabit Routing Switch

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Advanced Switching Architecture to Improve Network Expansibility

The S9300 adopts advanced switching technologies to provide the highest switching capacity per chassis and

largest bandwidth per slot in the industry.

The S9300 adopts an innovative switching rate auto sensing technology and enables port rate to be upgraded

Product Overview

The S9300 is a high-end terabit routing switch developed by Huawei for the service-focused network. It is designed

based on the intelligent multilayer switching technology of Huawei to provide intelligent service optimization

methods such as traffic analysis, comprehensive QoS policies, controllable multicast, integrated security guarantee in

addition to stable, reliable, secure, and high performance L2/L3 switching services. In addition, it features super high

extensibility and reliability.

The S9300 is applicable to WANs, MANs, campus networks, as well as the core layer and aggregation layer of data

centers to help enterprises build an application-oriented network. It integrates the switching and routing functions

to build an end-to-end integrated network.

The S9300 has three models: S9303, S9306, and S9312. Their switching capacity and port density can be expanded

continuously. The three models use universal modules and components. This not only ensures the extensibility of the

equipment, but also protects the investments of carriers. In addition, the S9300 adopts various innovative energy

saving technologies, which greatly reduce the energy consumption and noise of the equipment without affecting

the performance and stability of the system. By developing the S9300, Huawei can provide solutions for sustainable

development of networks.

Appearance of the S9300

S9303 S9306 S9312

Product Characteristics

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Carrier-Level High Availability Design to Ensure Service Consistency

The availability of the S9300 is 99.999%, which meets the requirement of carrier-class operation. The key components of the

S9300, including the switch routing unit, power supplies, and fans, support hot swapping. The S9300 adopts a distributed

hardware-based forwarding architecture that separates the routing plane from the data forwarding plane. This architecture

ensures service consistency.

The S9300 provides 3.3 ms hardware-based Ethernet OAM function, which can quickly detect and locate faults. By using the

Ethernet OAM technology and switchover technologies, the S9300 provides millisecond protection for networks.

to 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s. It is completely compatible with line cards used on incumbent networks, which

protects investments of carriers.

The current carrying ability of the backplane allows for increasing power and heat dissipation requirement

brought by bandwidth upgrade in the future. Certain data buses are reserved for high-speed switching fabrics.

Each S9300 supports 576 10GE ports. The high density of 10GE ports brings enterprise campus networks and

data centers into an era of all-10GE core network.

Innovative Triple-Plane Design

The S9300 adds an independent environment monitoring plane to the traditional data forwarding plane and

control plane, thus realizing a triple-plane design. It adopts an innovative environment monitoring board to

manage and monitor the line cards, fans, and power modules.

The environment monitoring board uses an independent central control chip to implement hardware-based

power-saving functions such as dynamic power adjustment by traffic, separate fan control, intelligent fan speed

adjustment, and port hibernation. The system performance is greatly improved and the power consumption of

the entire equipment is reduced.

The environment monitoring board can work with the network management system to provide a visual

management environment for maintaining the S9300.

Innovative triple-plane design

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The S9300 implements seamless switchover between active components and standby components and graceful restart. In

later versions, the S9300 will support the in-service software upgrade (ISSU), which can minimize disruption of mission-critical

data and services.

The S9300 supports Enhanced-Trunk (E-Trunk) feature, which can ensure multi-chassis link aggregation. With E-Trunk S9300

need not use MSTP, in L2 network, which improves equipment utilization efficiency for the link while avoiding a single point

of failure.

The S9300 supports the link aggregation feature defined in IEEE 802.3ad, the IEEE 802.1s/w standard, and the Virtual Router

Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). In addition, it supports various millisecond switchover technologies, such as RRPP, Smart Link, IP

FRR, TE FRR, and VPN FRR. These technologies implement carrier-level high availability.

Cluster Switching System (CSS)

The CSS technology virtualizes multiple switches into a logical device. The switches in the cluster share the control information

and synchronize their routing tables and multicast forwarding tables.

The CSS technology improves the bandwidth a single device can provide and enables core switches to provide high

bandwidth and throughput required by the high-density 10GE core layer of campus networks and large-capacity data

centers.

The CSS technology improves the system reliability. Most switches implement the CSS function through line cards. This

method requires multiple switching processes cross chassises and therefore reduces the switching efficiency. The S9300

implements the CSS function through switching fabrics to solve this problem. In this way, switching fabrics of the switches

in a cluster are connected. This method saves line card slots and provides 256 Gbit/s bandwidth, which is the highest in the

industry. In addition, inter-chassis link aggregation can be used to improve link usage and eliminate single-point faults.

The CSS technology facilitates management of the core layer. The cluster uses a virtual IP address and is managed as one

network element, which reduces network elements on the network. Thus the network topology is simplified, the operation

efficiency is improved, and the OPEX is reduced.

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ISSU Function to Ensure Non-interruptive Network Running

The ISSU function reduces service interruption during software upgrade and improves the system reliability. The

ISSU function enables enterprise networks to provide services 24 hours a day. With this function, device software

can be upgraded without interrupting services and applications.

The S9300 provides three ISSU upgrade modes: lossless upgrade, lossy upgrade, and immediate restart. The

system can automatically find differences of modules in the new version and old version and provide a suggested

upgrade mode.

The S9300 supports auto-rollback of the system software when ISSU upgrade fails. The line cards can back up

processes of the new version and old version to reduce service interruption caused by the upgrade.

Improved QoS Mechanism

The S9300 provides excellent Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee. S9300 supports for Layer2 ~ Layer7 flow

classification technology. It adopts various queue scheduling algorithms and congestion control algorithms to

control data traffic accurately and hierarchically, providing differentiated services for different users.

The S9300 provides a hierarchical QoS (H-QoS) mechanism. It sets a scheduler for each service class to refine QoS

attributes of traffic so that QoS of key services can be better guaranteed. The H-QoS mechanism can be applied

to the access network to meet service requirements on different layers of a large enterprise campus network.

Full-Service Ethernet Switching Platform

The S9300 supports distributed L2/L3 MPLS VPN functions, including MPLS, VPLS, HVPLS, and VLL, to provide

access for various VPN users.

The S9300 provides WAN daughter-cards of different rates to support access to the WAN.

The S9300 has a capability to copy multicast packets between VLANs at the line speed on a full-load interface.

This meets the requirements of multi-terminal video monitoring and video conferencing. Through L2 and L3

multicast protocols, the S9300 can function as the multicast replication point and control point to provide IP

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multicast video and audio services.

VRP software platform provides multiple routing protocols to meet the requirements in enterprise networking,

support level from small-middle business (SMB) to large multinational large-scale routing. The S9300 supports

IPv6 and provides smooth migration solution from IPv4 to IPv6 on the enterprise networks.

The system can be expanded to support various clock solutions, including the synchronization Ethernet clock and

clock synchronization defined in IEEE 1588.

The S9300 supports the standard PoE function to provide power for powered devices. Each port provides a

maximum power of 15.4 W (complying with IEEE 802.3af) or 30 W (complying with IEEE 802.3at).

Virtual Data Center Switching Platform

The S9300 supports the CSS technology, which enables core switches and aggregation switches of a data

center to provide large capacity, high reliability, and mass throughput. The S9300 innovatively implements the

CSS function through switching fabrics. Inter-device link aggregation can be implemented to improve usage

of bandwidth resources in the data center. This technology hides physical links from data switching in the data

center.

The S9300 provides line cards with large caches specific to the service model of large distributed data centers.

Each port of such a line card provides 200 ms caching of data flows. This prevents packet loss caused by high

burst traffic on the distributed computing network.

The S9300 supports refined QoS guarantee and traffic management. It uses various queue scheduling algorithms

and congestion control algorithms to control data traffic accurately and hierarchically. In this way, the S9300 can

assign different priorities and queues to flows of different users and services according to their QoS requirements

and provides different bandwidth, delay, and jitter for them.

High IPv6 Service Capability

Both the hardware platform and software platform of the S9300 support IPv6. The S9300 has gained IPv6 Ready

Phase 2 (Gold) designation.

The S9300 supports IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, various tunneling technologies, IPv6 static routes, RIPng, OSPFv3,

BGP+, IS-ISv6, and IPv6 multicast to meet the requirements of independent IP networks and IPv4/IPv6 integrated

networks.

Intelligent Load Balancing

The load balancer of the S9300 can ensure service availability, improve service response speed, and facilitate

service expansion.

The load balancer of the S9300 supports multiple load balancing algorithms to meet all requirements for load

balancing, such as weighted round robin (WRR), connection count-based hash, weighted IP-based hash, and

HTTP URL-based hash.

Web portal servers often receive requests for the same web page or service at the same time, and the servers

need to set up and close TCP connections frequently. This consumes many CPU resources and reduces the

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response speed of servers. The load balancer of the S9300 supports reuse of TCP and HTTP connections to

reduce the work load of setting up and closing TCP connections, thus increasing the access rate of Web portal

servers.

The load balancer of the S9300 supports dynamic traffic locking to implement load balancing for online shopping

on ecommerce websites.

Powerful Netstream Function

The S9300 supports distributed Netstream through line cards and integrated Netstream through a dedicated

processing line card. The Netstream function helps to collect and analyze network traffic in real time.

The S9300 supports Netstream packets of v5, v8, and v9 and provides aggregation traffic template to reduce

the workload of the traffic collector. It can collect traffic in real time, generate reports dynamically, analyze traffic

attributes, and generate alarms for abnormal traffic.

The Netstream function helps to monitor network traffic in real time and analyze throughput of network devices.

The traffic analysis results are basis of network optimization and expansion.

Excellent Security Design

Built-in firewall can support virtual firewalls and multiple instances of NAT, which helps multiple customers

sharing the same firewall. Dynamic blacklist active defense technology to achieve worm prevention, resist

topology detection, IP and port sniff attack protection for enterprises to build secure Intranet. Application

Specific Packet Filter (ASPF) technology can detect for application layer packet based on complex rules, ASPF

supports for SIP, QQ, MSN, H.323, SMTP, RTSP, FTP, HTTP and variety of application layer protocols. Hot-backup

firewall enhances network reliability and anti-attack capability.

The S9300 supports Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA). It performs AAA for access users

according to policies. In addition, the S9300 supports 802.1x, portal, and Guest VLAN. S9300 supports

dynamical access authentication, thus it can work with the NAC products of mainstream manufacturers.

The S9300 supports the routing protocol encryption, MAC address filtering, dynamic ARP detection, and ACLs to

protect data of service providers and end users. Hardware-based packet filtering and sampling guarantee high

performance and high scalability of the system.

The S9300 uses a 2-level CPU protection mechanism and supports 1K hardware queues for CPU protection. It

separates the data plane and the control plane and prevents DoS attacks, unauthorized access, and overload of

the control plane. With these features, the S9300 provides industry-leading integrated security solutions.

Six Innovations to Save Power by 30%

Environment-friendly design: The S9300 uses an intelligent chip to adjust the equipment power according to the

traffic, which can reduce equipment power 8%.

Revolving air flow: Revolving air flow of the S9300 not only improves heat dissipation of the equipment, which

can reduce equipment power 3%, but also facilitates six times cable-layout than traditional switch in one cabinet.

On-demand configuration of the power supply: The power supply can be configured on demand to reduce the

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investment in the early stage and lower the power consumption 10%.

Fan flexible controlling by position: Fans of high-power line cards and low-power line cards are controlled

separately, which can reduce noise 10% and save power.

Intelligent fuzzy fan speed-adaptation: The rotation speed of fans can be adjusted flexibly according to the

temperature of key components free from temperature disturbance. This technology reduces equipment power

3% and extends the lifetime of fans.

Port hibernation: The port hibernation technology enables the S9300 to adjust the output power according to

the traffic on a port, thus saving power 6% without packet loss.

Universal Components to Reduce Costs of Spare Parts

The S9300 adopts the industry-leading heat dissipation design, which solves the problem of heat dissipation on

large-capacity equipment. This design enables the S9300 to provide the highest port density per cabinet in the

industry.

All models of the S9300 series use the power supplies, fans, environment monitoring units of the same type. The

highly uniform design reduces models of components, and thus saves the customer's investment.

The S9300 adopts energy saving chips and a high-efficient energy saving management platform. Its energy-

efficiency ratio is higher than counterpart products.

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Product Specifications

Item S9303 S9306 S9312

Backplane capacity 3Tbps 6Tbps 12Tbps

Switching capacity 720G/1.92T 2T/5.12T 2T/5.12T

Throughput 540Mpps/1440Mpps 1080Mpps/2880Mpps 1320Mpps/3360Mpps

LPU slots 3 6 12

GE port density 144 288 576

10GE port density 144 288 576

VLAN

Supports access, trunk, and hybrid VLAN.

Supports the default VLAN.

Supports VLAN switching.

Supports QinQ and selective QinQ.

Supports dynamic VLAN allocation based on MAC

MAC address

Supports dynamic learning and aging of MAC addresses.

Supports static, dynamic, and blackhole MAC address entries.

Filters packets based on source MAC addresses.

Restricts MAC address learning based on ports and VLANs.

STP

Supports STP, RSTP, and MSTP.

Supports BPDU protection, root protection, and loop protection.

Supports BPDU tunnels.

IP routingSupports IPv4 routing protocols, such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS.

Supports IPv6 routing protocols, such as, RIPng, OSPFv3, ISISv6, and BGPv4.

Multicast

Supports IGMP v1/v2/v3 and IGMP v1/v2/v3 snooping.

Supports PIM DM, PIM SM and PIM SSM

Supports MSDP and MBGP

Supports prompt leave of multicast members.

Supports multicast traffic control.

Supports the multicast querier.

Supports suppression on multicast packets.

Supports multicast CAC.

MPLS

Supports basic MPLS functions.

Supports MPLS OAM.

Supports MPLS TE.

Supports MPLS VPN/VLL/VPLS.

Reliability

Supports LACP and Enhanced-Trunk.

Supports VRRP and BFD for VRRP.

Supports BFD for BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, and Static routing.

Supports NSF and GR for BGP, IS-IS, OSPF and LDP.

Supports TE FRR and IP FRR.

Supports Ethernet OAM (802.3ah and 802.1ag).

Supports DLDP.

Supports ISSU.

Supports CSS.

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Chassis dimensions (width x depth x height) (mm)

442×476×175 442×476×442 442×476×664

Chassis weight (empty) <15Kg <30Kg <45Kg

Working voltageDC：–38.4V～–72VAC：90V～290V

Chassis power supply capability(without PoE power supply)

800W 1600W 1600W

Item S9303 S9306 S9312

QoS

Supports traffic classification based on the Layer-2 header, Layer-3 information, Layer-4 information, and 802.1p priority.

Supports the actions of ACL, CAR, re-mark, and schedule.

Supports the queue scheduling algorithms of PQ, WRR, DRR, PQ+WRR, and PQ+DRR.

Supports the congestion avoidance mechanisms such as WRED and tail drop.

Supports H-QoS.

Supports traffic shaping.

EPON OLT

Supports IEEE 802.3ah.

Supports DBA.

Limit of ONU both downstream and upstream bandwidth.

Loopback test of ONU.

Configuration and Maintenance

Supports Console, Telnet, and SSH terminals.

Supports the network management protocols, such as SNMPv1/v2/v3.

Supports file uploading and downloading through FTP and TFTP.

Supports BootROM upgrade and remote upgrade.

Supports hot patches.

Supports user operation logs.

Security and Management

Supports 802.1x authentication and portal authentication.

Supports NAC.

Supports RADIUS and HWTACACS authentication for login users.

Provides hierarchical protection for commands to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the equipment.

Defends against DoS attack, TCP SYN Flood attack, UDP Flood attack, broadcast storm, and heavy traffic attack.

Provides 1K CPU queues for CPU protection.

Supports the ping and tracert functions based on ICMP packets.

Supports RMON.

Service Function

Supports Firewall.

Supports NAT.

Supports Netstream.

Supports IPSec.

Supports Load Balance.

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Typical Applications

1 Large Enterprise Campus

Quidway S9300 core switches help users to construct enterprise campus network with high reliability, high

performance, and business easy to expand and manage. S9300 has distributed IPv4/IPv6/MPLS wire speed

switching capacity to meet the enterprise campus core node and aggregation node, which has high-density

10-Gigabit massive data throughput. S9300 can provide CPU queue based on hardware, which can protect

network against DDOS attacks and a variety of security threats.

Configuration Guide

S9300 is modular configuration. Product configuration includes basic configuration, software License, Line

Processing Units (LPU), Service Processing Unit (SPU), daughter units, and other types of units (CSS Service Unit,

Clock Pinch Card), transceiver and fiber connectors.

Product configuration must include the basic configuration, for the first time purchase. Basic configuration

includes Assembly Chassis, Switch Routing Unit (SRU) and power module. SRU must configure at least one unit,

but we recommend configure 2 units in order to improve equipment reliability. Power module must configure at

least one module, but we recommend configure 2 or 4 modules for 1 +1 or 2 + 2 redundant in order to improve

equipment reliability, flexibility to choose according to machine power.DC power module and AC power module

does not support mixed-configuration. Then, based on actual requirement you can configure software license,

LPUs, SPUs and daughter units. These units may choose from the ordering information table as followed. Finally,

you can select the transceivers and fiber connectors, which can refer to the list of common quotes.

If there already has been a basic configuration, only on this basis, you can add LPUs and upgrade software from

the ordering information table as followed, according to the actual demand.

CSS Clustering

Web & Email

DNS EMAIL Portal

S9300

Internet WANManagementIDC

Access Access Fit AP

Aggregation

S9300 S9300 S9300 S9300

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3 Metropolitan Area Network

Quidway S9300 series switches aggregate DSLAM, LAN switches and enterprise customers, providing high switching

capabilities and high-density 10G interfaces. Aggregation layer can be smoothly upgraded from 10G to 40G/100G,

to meet the growing carrier demand for network bandwidth. S9300 supports RRPP, Ethernet OAM, VRRP, MPLS L2/

L3VPN and other features, to meet the IPTV, HSI and business lease-line applications to meet carrier-class reliability,

security, and manageability requirements.

2 Large Information Data Center

S9300 series switches can be used as a large data center core of high density 10-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit

aggregation node help enterprises to build highly reliable, non-blocking, virtualization, high security data center

network. Core equipments provide firewall, CSS, load balance and centralized Netstream integrated solutions to

reduce overall TCO (Total Cost Ownership) of data center network. S9300 supports ISSU, IP FRR, hardware-level

BFD, NSF, VRRP, E-Trunk high reliability technology, sustainable operation of data center operations.

Web & Email

DNS EMAIL Portal

Application

APP APP Middle Ware

Application

APP APP Middle Ware

Database

DB DB DB

S9300 CSS Clustering

Campus Core

S9300 CSS Clustering S9300 CSS Clustering

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Product Description

S9306/S9312 Switch Routing Unit-SRUA

S9306/S9312 Switch Routing Unit-SRUB

S9303 Switch Routing Unit

Flexible Service Unit

CSS Service Unit

Clock Pinch Card-1588v2

Order Information

1. Quidway S9300 models

Product Description

S9303 Assembly Chassis

S9306 Assembly Chassis

S9306 Assembly Chassis-POE

S9312 Assembly Chassis

S9312 Assembly Chassis-POE

2. SRUs of the Quidway S9300s

ME Access ME Aggregation ME Core

DSLAM

Access Switch

CPE

DSLAM

Access Switch

CPE

S9303/06

S9303

S9303

S9303

S9306/S9312

S9306/S9312

IPTV Server

VOD Server

AG

SoftX

SR

SR

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Product Description

48-Port 100BASE-FX Interface Card

48-Port 10/100BASE-T Interface Card

48-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card

48-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Interface Card

48-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Interface Card with PoE

24-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card

24-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX and 8-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Combo Interface Card

36-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T and 12-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card

24-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX and 2-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card

24-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T and 2-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card

48-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card

12-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card

4-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card

2-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card

Mother Card of WAN Interface Cards

4-Port 155M POS Interface Card

4-Port 622M POS Interface Card

1-Port 2.5G POS Interface Card

12-Port 1000BASE-PX Passive Optical Line Terminal and 12-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card

Service Processing Unit*

Product Description

S9300 DC Power Supply Module, 800W

S9300 AC Power Supply Module, 800W

3. Power Modules of the Quidway S9300s

4. LPUs of the Quidway S9300s

* Service Processing Unit supports Firewall, IPSec, Load Balance, Netstream functions.

For more information, visit www.huawei.com or contact the Huawei local sale office.

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Huawei Industrial Base

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Shenzhen 518129, P.R. China

Tel: +86-755-28780808

www.huawei.com

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