Huawei CloudEngine CE16816-AH – Data Center Switch

Product Overview

The Huawei CloudEngine CE16816-AH is a high-performance modular chassis switch belonging to the CloudEngine 16800 Series, purpose-built for data center core, cloud computing infrastructure, and large-scale enterprise backbone networks. Designed for the AI era, it features an embedded AI chip and utilizes the innovative iLossless intelligent algorithm to learn and train network-wide traffic in real time, implementing zero packet loss and end-to-end microsecond-level latency to achieve maximum throughput.

The switch chassis is 32.3U high and features a 16-slot architecture with service slots supporting flexible combinations of line processing units (LPUs). It includes 2 main processing unit (MPU) slots for 1:1 redundancy and 9 switching fabric unit (SFU) slots for N+M redundancy. The CE16816-AH supports AC and HVDC dual power input configurations with up to 20 power modules and a recommended N+1 redundant power architecture. It adopts a strict front-to-back airflow design, optimized for hot aisle/cold aisle data center layouts.

The CE16816-AH runs on the VRP8 software platform and supports high-speed Ethernet evolution including 100GE, 200GE, and 400GE, enabling flexible data center expansion and seamless network scalability. The CloudEngine 16800 series provides up to 576 × 100GE, 576 × 40GE, 2,304 × 25GE, or 2,304 × 10GE line-rate ports. It is widely deployed in spine-leaf architectures, hyperscale cloud platforms, high-performance computing environments, and telecom carrier-grade networks.

The switch is based on a backplane-free Clos switching architecture with cell switching and Virtual Output Queue (VoQ) technology. It supports M-LAG for cross-device link aggregation with active-active load sharing, VS (1:16 virtualization), and Cluster Switch System (CSS) technologies. The chassis is supplied without power modules and fan modules, which must be ordered separately.

Product Specifications

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