Thursday, April 23, 2015

The selection of interface card for your S5700 Switch

Huawei S5700 switches is good at high-bandwidth access and Ethernet aggregation, Which can be used in various campus network scenarios: aggregation switch, gigabit access switch in Internet data center, access switch, or desktop switch to provide 1000 Mbps access for terminals.


The interface cards which Huawei S5700 can support are:
·                          2/4-Port 10GE SFP+ Front Optical Interface Card
·                          4-Port GE SFP Front Optical Interface Card
·                          2/4-Port GE SFP/10GE SFP+ Front Optical Interface Card
·                          4-Port GE SFP Front Optical Interface Card
·                          8-Port GE SFP Rear Optical Interface Card
·                          8-Port GE Rear Electrical Interface Card
·                          2-Port GE SFP/10GE SFP+ Rear Optical Interface Card
·                          16-Port GE SFP Front Optical Interface Card
·                          16-Port GE Front Electrical Interface Card
·                          4-Port 40GE QSFP+ Optical Interface Card
·                          4-Port 10GE SFP+ Rear Optical Interface Card
·                          4-Port 10 GE SFP+ Rear Interface Card, Used in S5720-HI Series
·                          Stack Rear Card
·                          Extended Rear Card



A network interface card provides the computer with a dedicated, full-time connection to a network. Personal computers and workstations on a local area network (LAN) typically contain a network interface card specifically designed for the LAN transmission technology 

A WAN interface card, or WIC, is a specialized network interface card (NIC) that allows devices to connect to a wide area network. (A NIC provides the interface between a device and a local area network.) A WIC has a built-in Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit (CSU/DSU) interface that allows the card to communicate with a router that is connected to a WAN. The term is especially used in conjunction with hardware manufactured by Cisco Systems.

A network interface unit (NIU) (sometimes called a network interface device) is a device that serves as a common interface for various other devices within a local area network (LAN), or as an interface to allow networked computers to connect to an outside network. The NIU enables communication between devices that use different protocols by supplying a common transmission protocol, which may be used instead of the devices' own protocols, or may be used to convert the specific device protocol to the common one. To enable an interface between a LAN and another network, the NIU converts protocols and associated code and acts as abuffer between the connected hardware. A network interface card (NIC) is a type of NIU. 


During choosing maybe you need several NOTE:
Different cards provide different indicators and ports. For details, see the description of specific cards.
·                          Front panel, consisting of the captive screws, ejector levers, and plate
1.                                       Captive screws: fix the card into the chassis.
2.                                       Ejector lever: allows you to insert and remove the card.
3.                                       Plate: joins the ejector levers and the PCB.

Card Classification

The below table lists the cards supported by the S5700.
Card Type
Card Name
Card Description
Hot swap
Front card
ES5D000X2S00
2-port 10GE SFP+ front optical interface card
Not supported
ES5D000X4S01
4-port 10GE SFP+ front optical interface card
ES5D000G4S01
4-port GE front optical interface card
ES5D00G4SA01
4-port GE front optical interface card
ES5D00X2SA00
2-port GE SFP or 10GE SFP+ front optical interface card
Supported
ES5D00X4SA00
4-port GE SFP or 10GE SFP+ front optical interface card
ES5D00G4SC00
4-port GE SFP front optical interface card
ES5D21G16S00
16-port GE SFP front optical interface card
Supported
ES5D21G16T00
16-port GE front electrical interface card
Rear card
ES5D21G08S00
8-port GE SFP rear optical interface card
Supported
ES5D21G08T00
8-port GE rear electrical interface card
ES5D21X02S00
2-port GE SFP or 10GE SFP+ rear optical interface card
ES5D00ETPC00
Stack rear card
Not supported
ES5D00ETPB00
Extended rear card
ES5D21L04Q00
4-port 40GE QSFP+ rear optical interface card
Supported
ES5D21X04S00
4-port 10GE SFP+ rear optical interface card
ES5D21X04S01
4-port 10GE SFP+ rear optical interface card
 Some cards are sold with other cards, for example, front card ES5D000X4S01 is sold with rear card ES5D00ETPB00. When a card is faulty, provide the bar code of the card for Huawei technical personnel to fix the problem.

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