Huawei unveils 200G line card for routers

SHANGHAI, CHINA: Telecommunication networking solutions provider Huawei announced the launch of 200G line card for router.

The company says that by using its self-developed solar chipsets, including high performance forwarding engine chipset, switch fabric chipset, traffic management chipset, etc, as well as technologies such as MIP (Macro Instruction for Packet Processing), the 200G line card is able to achieve line-rate forwarding of services and also maintain minimum power consumption at lower than 2.62 W per GE.

Also Read: Huawei net up 30 p.c in 2010 at $3.64 bn

Hu Kewen, president, Carrier IP Sub-Product Line, Huawei, said, "Operators' demands for larger-capacity ultra-broadband networks to carry high-value services is the essential drive behind our development of the 200G line card."

This 200G line card, consisting of a mother card and daughter card, will be delivered in two models - 2 x 100GE and 20 x 10GE.

The mother card is backward compatible with the daughter cards of legacy 100G line cards. Moreover, the mother card supports multiple hot-swappable daughter cards for operators to choose from.