The built-in LAN ports on all Huawei NetEngine AR6000/600 series routers can be used as WAN ports. According to the NetEngine AR6000 Series Enterprise Routers Product Overview, NetEngine AR6000/600 series routers support flexible WAN/LAN port configuration, which allows users to use any built-in LAN port as a WAN port.

Spine nodes are core nodes on the fabric network, but they do need to support VXLAN in some scenarios. According to the Data Center Networking: What It Is, Why It Matters, And Types article, VXLAN is a tunnel encapsulation technology that allows overlay networks to be created on top of the underlay network. Spine nodes need to support VXLAN when they act as gateways between different overlay networks or between overlay and underlay networks.

The large-packet throughput of the USG6530E is 3 Gbit/s. This is based on the performance test results of the USG6530E using 1500-byte packets

 Policy association achieves policy flexibility and network simplicity on large campus networks. With policy association, user access policies are centrally managed on the gateway devices and enforced by gateway and access devices. According to the Huawei CloudCampus Solution Description, policy association is a feature that allows user policies to be associated with user groups, service types, or service priorities, rather than IP addresses or VLANs. Policy association simplifies network configuration and management, and improves user experience.

Huawei ranked No.1 in the Wi-Fi 6 standard working group in the number of proposals. According to the Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 Solution White Paper, Huawei has submitted more than 240 proposals to the IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) standard working group, accounting for 15% of all proposals.

iMaster NCE-FabricInsight is Huawei’s intelligent O&M software that can provide network-wide visibility, intelligent analysis, and automated O&M for data center networks. iMaster NCE-FabricInsight can collect data from various sources, such as SNMP, Telemetry, Syslog, sFlow, and iFIT. It can also use AI algorithms to detect anomalies, locate faults, predict risks, and optimize performance. iMaster NCE-FabricInsight can also automate network configuration, deployment, verification, and recovery.

SDR (Software Defined Radio) is a technology that can be used to switch the number of RFs (Radio Frequencies) dynamically. According to the Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 Solution White Paper, SDR enables an AP to dynamically switch between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands based on the number of users and service requirements, improving spectrum utilization and user experience.

AirEngine 8760-Xi-PRO is Huawei’s flagship Wi-Fi 6 product that has a unique industrial design with features such as an 18-degree angle of tilt for network ports and optical ports, a shark fin bionic heat dissipation channel, and a removable cover for IoT card installation . These features are designed to improve the performance, reliability, and convenience of the product. Easy and flexible is not an industrial design feature of the AirEngine 8760-Xi-PRO, but rather a general description of its deployment and management capabilities .

The maximum single-radio rate supported by Wi-Fi 6 products is 9.6 Gbit/s. This is achieved by using 1024-QAM modulation, 160 MHz channel bandwidth, and 8 spatial streams1

The NE8000M1C supports dual AC/DC power modules. According to the NetEngine 8000 M1C Service Router Datasheet, NE8000M1C supports two power modules that can work in 1+1 redundancy mode. The power modules can be AC or DC power modules.

USG6680E, USG6712E, and USG6716E are firewalls that are recommended for data centers. They provide high-performance security protection, virtualization, and cloud management capabilities for data center networks. USG12004 and USG12008 are not firewalls, but routers that are designed for enterprise WANs.

Huawei CloudFabric solution has been awarded Gartner’s “Customer Choice” three times by March 2021. According to the Huawei CloudFabric Solution Wins Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Third Consecutive Year article, Huawei CloudFabric solution received this honor in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

The CloudEngine S5736-S is a new-generation 10GE multi-rate switch launched by Huawei. It supports native AC (Access Controller) function, which enables it to manage up to 1024 APs and provide wireless services for up to 16K users.

The free mobility function allows users to obtain the consistent network access policy regardless of their location and IP address, but it does not require the network to be made up entirely of Huawei devices. According to the Huawei CloudCampus Solution Description, free mobility is supported on a hybrid network consisting of Huawei and third-party devices, and the authentication point can be deployed on third-party devices.

BGP EVPN is a control plane protocol that can be used for VXLAN networks . VXLAN is a technology that creates overlay networks to extend Layer 2 connectivity across Layer 3 networks . BGP EVPN has the following functions as a VXLAN control plane protocol:

• It automatically establishes the VXLAN tunnel between VTEPs (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoints), which are devices that encapsulate and decapsulate VXLAN packets . You do not need to manually configure a full-mesh tunnel between all VTEPs, which reduces the configuration complexity and improves the scalability .
• It advertises host routes and MAC address entries on the control plane, which are used to learn the location of hosts and their corresponding VTEPs . This reduces the unknown traffic flooding that occurs when the destination MAC address is unknown, and optimizes the packet forwarding by using optimal paths .
• It implements Layer 2 interconnection between data centers in different networking modes, such as bridging, routing, or integrated routing and bridging (IRB) . This enables seamless communication between hosts in different subnets or VLANs across data centers .
• It advertises subnet routes to implement Layer 3 interconnection of data centers through VXLAN tunnels . This enables routing between different subnets or VLANs across data centers without requiring an external gateway device .