Showing posts with label S5700-EI Switch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label S5700-EI Switch. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

What Is the Bandwidth Limitation on Huawei Switch Subcards?

The subcards in the front slot and rear slot use the same chip that provides 4x10 Gbit/s
bandwidth. Therefore, S5700-EI Switch or S5700-SI stacks set up through stack cards have the
following limitations:
A stack card can be used with a 2 x 10G subcard. The two stack interfaces on the stack card
occupy 20 Gbit/s bandwidth, and the 2 x 10G subcard occupies 20 Gbit/s. A stack subcard
cannot be used with a 4 x GE subcard. The GE interfaces on the 4 x GE subcard are actually
10GE interfaces with their rates limited, so the actual bandwidth of the subcard is 4x10
Gbit/s. This subcard occupies all the 4x10 Gbit/s bandwidth of the chip, and thus there is no
available bandwidth for the stack card.