HUAWEI NetEngine40E Universal ServiceRouter
Hardware Description
2 NE40E-X16 Chassis Overview
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2 NE40E-X16 Chassis Overview
About This Chapter
2.1 Overview
2.2 Power Supply System
This chapter describes the power supply system used by the NE40E.
2.3 Heat Dissipation System
This section describes the appearance, functions, and specifications of the heat dissipation
system.
2.4 Switching Network
This section describes the functions of the switch fabric unit.
2.5 Control Plane
This chapter describes the control plane of the NE40E-X16.
2.6 Physical Specifications
This section describes the specifications of the chassis and boards.
2.1 Overview
2.1.1 System Overview
This section gives an overview of the system.
The NE40E series adopt a centralized routing engine and distributed forwarding architecture.
This helps to provide rich and flexible service and to perform large-capacity forwarding.
The NE40E-X16 has an integrated chassis, with main components which all support hot
swapping.
The NE40E-X16 supports all the Line Processing Units (LPUs) on the former NE40E, but the
Main Processing Units (MPUs) and Switch and Fabric Units (SFUs) are new.