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methods such as trafc analysis, comprehensive QoS policies, controllable multicast, integrated security guarantee in
addition to stable, reliable, secure, and high performance L2/L3 switching services. In addition, it features super high
extensibility and reliability.
The S9300 is applicable to WANs, MANs, campus networks, as well as the core layer and aggregation layer of data
centers to help enterprises build an application-oriented network. It integrates the switching and routing functions
to build an end-to-end integrated network.
The S9300 has three models: S9303, S9306, and S9312. Their switching capacity and port density can be expanded
continuously. The three models use universal modules and components. This not only ensures the extensibility of the
equipment, but also protects the investments of carriers. In addition, the S9300 adopts various innovative energy
saving technologies, which greatly reduce the energy consumption and noise of the equipment without affecting
the performance and stability of the system. By developing the S9300, Huawei can provide solutions for sustainable
development of networks.

Appearance of the S9300

S9303

S9306

S9312

Product Characteristics
Advanced Switching Architecture to Improve Network Expansibility
The S9300 adopts advanced switching technologies to provide the highest switching capacity per chassis and
largest bandwidth per slot in the industry.
The S9300 adopts an innovative switching rate auto sensing technology and enables port rate to be upgraded
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The S9300 is a high-end terabit routing switch developed by Huawei for the service-focused network. It is designed

to 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s. It is completely compatible with line cards used on incumbent networks, which
protects investments of carriers.
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The current carrying ability of the backplane allows for increasing power and heat dissipation requirement
brought by bandwidth upgrade in the future. Certain data buses are reserved for high-speed switching fabrics.
Each S9300 supports 576 10GE ports. The high density of 10GE ports brings enterprise campus networks and
data centers into an era of all-10GE core network.

Innovative Triple-Plane Design

The S9300 adds an independent environment monitoring plane to the traditional data forwarding plane and
control plane, thus realizing a triple-plane design. It adopts an innovative environment monitoring board to
manage and monitor the line cards, fans, and power modules.
The environment monitoring board uses an independent central control chip to implement hardware-based
power-saving functions such as dynamic power adjustment by trafc, separate fan control, intelligent fan speed
adjustment, and port hibernation. The system performance is greatly improved and the power consumption of
the entire equipment is reduced.
The environment monitoring board can work with the network management system to provide a visual
management environment for maintaining the S9300.

Innovative triple-plane design

Carrier-Level High Availability Design to Ensure Service Consistency

The availability of the S9300 is 99.999%, which meets the requirement of carrier-class operation. The key components of the
S9300, including the switch routing unit, power supplies, and fans, support hot swapping. The S9300 adopts a distributed
hardware-based forwarding architecture that separates the routing plane from the data forwarding plane. This architecture
ensures service consistency.
The S9300 provides 3.3 ms hardware-based Ethernet OAM function, which can quickly detect and locate faults. By using the
Ethernet OAM technology and switchover technologies, the S9300 provides millisecond protection for networks.
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The S9300 implements seamless switchover between active components and standby components and graceful restart. In
later versions, the S9300 will support the in-service software upgrade (ISSU), which can minimize disruption of mission-critical

need not use MSTP, in L2 network, which improves equipment utilization efciency for the link while avoiding a single point
of failure.
The S9300 supports the link aggregation feature dened in IEEE 802.3ad, the IEEE 802.1s/w standard, and the Virtual Router
Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). In addition, it supports various millisecond switchover technologies, such as RRPP, Smart Link, IP
FRR, TE FRR, and VPN FRR. These technologies implement carrier-level high availability.

Cluster Switching System (CSS)

The CSS technology virtualizes multiple switches into a logical device. The switches in the cluster share the control information
and synchronize their routing tables and multicast forwarding tables.
The CSS technology improves the bandwidth a single device can provide and enables core switches to provide high
bandwidth and throughput required by the high-density 10GE core layer of campus networks and large-capacity data
centers.
The CSS technology improves the system reliability. Most switches implement the CSS function through line cards. This
method requires multiple switching processes cross chassises and therefore reduces the switching efciency. The S9300
implements the CSS function through switching fabrics to solve this problem. In this way, switching fabrics of the switches
in a cluster are connected. This method saves line card slots and provides 256 Gbit/s bandwidth, which is the highest in the
industry. In addition, inter-chassis link aggregation can be used to improve link usage and eliminate single-point faults.
The CSS technology facilitates management of the core layer. The cluster uses a virtual IP address and is managed as one
network element, which reduces network elements on the network. Thus the network topology is simplied, the operation
efciency is improved, and the OPEX is reduced.

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data and services.

ISSU Function to Ensure Non-interruptive Network Running

The ISSU function reduces service interruption during software upgrade and improves the system reliability. The
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ISSU function enables enterprise networks to provide services 24 hours a day. With this function, device software
can be upgraded without interrupting services and applications.
The S9300 provides three ISSU upgrade modes: lossless upgrade, lossy upgrade, and immediate restart. The
system can automatically nd differences of modules in the new version and old version and provide a suggested
upgrade mode.
The S9300 supports auto-rollback of the system software when ISSU upgrade fails. The line cards can back up
processes of the new version and old version to reduce service interruption caused by the upgrade.

Improved QoS Mechanism

The S9300 provides excellent Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee. S9300 supports for Layer2 ~ Layer7 ow
classication technology. It adopts various queue scheduling algorithms and congestion control algorithms to
control data trafc accurately and hierarchically, providing differentiated services for different users.
The S9300 provides a hierarchical QoS (H-QoS) mechanism. It sets a scheduler for each service class to rene QoS
attributes of trafc so that QoS of key services can be better guaranteed. The H-QoS mechanism can be applied
to the access network to meet service requirements on different layers of a large enterprise campus network.

Full-Service Ethernet Switching Platform

The S9300 supports distributed L2/L3 MPLS VPN functions, including MPLS, VPLS, HVPLS, and VLL, to provide
access for various VPN users.
The S9300 provides WAN daughter-cards of different rates to support access to the WAN.
The S9300 has a capability to copy multicast packets between VLANs at the line speed on a full-load interface.
This meets the requirements of multi-terminal video monitoring and video conferencing. Through L2 and L3
multicast protocols, the S9300 can function as the multicast replication point and control point to provide IP

multicast video and audio services.

The L3 multiprotocol feature meets the requirements of traditional networks. It supports the large routing tables

The system can be expanded to support various clock solutions, including the synchronization Ethernet clock and
clock synchronization dened in IEEE 1588.
The S9300 supports the standard PoE function to provide power for powered devices. Each port provides a
maximum power of 15.4 W (complying with IEEE 802.3af) or 30 W (complying with IEEE 802.3at).

Virtual Data Center Switching Platform

The S9300 supports the CSS technology, which enables core switches and aggregation switches of a data
center to provide large capacity, high reliability, and mass throughput. The S9300 innovatively implements the
CSS function through switching fabrics to provide large-capacity non-blocking data switching. Inter-device link
aggregation can be implemented to improve usage of bandwidth resources in the data center. This technology
hides physical links from data switching in the data center.
The S9300 provides line cards with large caches specic to the service model of large distributed data centers.
Each port of such a line card provides 200 ms caching of data ows. This prevents packet loss caused by high
burst trafc on the distributed computing network.
The S9300 supports rened QoS guarantee and trafc management. It uses various queue scheduling algorithms
and congestion control algorithms to control data trafc accurately and hierarchically. In this way, the S9300 can
assign different priorities and queues to ows of different users and services according to their QoS requirements
and provides different bandwidth, delay, and jitter for them.

High IPv6 Service Capability

Both the hardware platform and software platform of the S9300 support IPv6. The S9300 has gained IPv6 Ready
Phase 2 (Gold) designation.
The S9300 supports IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, various tunneling technologies, IPv6 static routes, RIPng, OSPFv3,
BGP+, IS-ISv6, and IPv6 multicast to meet the requirements of independent IP networks and IPv4/IPv6 integrated
networks.

Intelligent Load Balancing

The load balancer of the S9300 can ensure service availability, improve service response speed, and facilitate
service expansion.
The load balancer of the S9300 supports multiple load balancing algorithms to meet all requirements for load
balancing, such as weighted round robin (WRR), connection count-based hash, weighted IP-based hash, and
HTTP URL-based hash.
Web portal servers often receive requests for the same web page or service at the same time, and the servers
need to set up and close TCP connections frequently. This consumes many CPU resources and reduces the

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of enterprise networks and carrier-class networks. The S9300 supports IPv6 and provides smooth migration

response speed of servers. The load balancer of the S9300 supports reuse of TCP and HTTP connections to
reduce the work load of setting up and closing TCP connections, thus increasing the access rate of Web portal
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servers.
The load balancer of the S9300 supports dynamic trafc locking to implement load balancing for online shopping
on ecommerce websites.

Powerful Netstream Function

The S9300 supports distributed Netstream through line cards and integrated Netstream through a dedicated
processing line card. The Netstream function helps to collect and analyze network trafc in real time.
The S9300 supports Netstream packets of v5, v8, and v9 and provides aggregation trafc template to reduce
the workload of the trafc collector. It can collect trafc in real time, generate reports dynamically, analyze trafc
attributes, and generate alarms for abnormal trafc.
The Netstream function helps to monitor network trafc in real time and analyze throughput of network devices.
The trafc analysis results are basis of network optimization and expansion.

Excellent Security Design

Built-in rewall can support virtual rewalls and multiple instances of NAT, which helps multiple customers
sharing the same rewall. Dynamic blacklist active defense technology to achieve worm prevention, resist
topology detection, IP and port sniff attack protection for enterprises to build secure Intranet. Application
Specic Packet Filter (ASPF) technology can detect for application layer packet based on complex rules, ASPF
supports for SIP, QQ, MSN, H.323, SMTP, RTSP, FTP, HTTP and variety of application layer protocols. Hot-backup
rewall enhances network reliability and anti-attack capability.
The S9300 supports Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA). It performs AAA for access users
according to policies. In addition, the S9300 supports 802.1x, portal, and Guest VLAN. S9300 supports
dynamical access authentication, thus it can work with the NAC products of mainstream manufacturers.
The S9300 supports the routing protocol encryption, MAC address ltering, dynamic ARP detection, and ACLs to
protect data of service providers and end users. Hardware-based packet ltering and sampling guarantee high
performance and high scalability of the system.
The S9300 uses a 2-level CPU protection mechanism and supports 1K hardware queues for CPU protection. It
separates the data plane and the control plane and prevents DoS attacks, unauthorized access, and overload of
the control plane. With these features, the S9300 provides industry-leading integrated security solutions.

Six Innovations to Save Power by 30%

Environment-friendly design: The S9300 uses an intelligent chip to adjust the equipment power according to the
trafc, which can reduce equipment power 8%.
Revolving air ow: Revolving air ow of the S9300 not only improves heat dissipation of the equipment, which
can reduce equipment power 3%, but also facilitates six times cable-layout than traditional switch in one cabinet.
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On-demand conguration of the power supply: The power supply can be congured on demand to reduce the

investment in the early stage and lower the power consumption 10%.
Fan exible controlling by position: Fans of high-power line cards and low-power line cards are controlled

temperature of key components free from temperature disturbance. This technology reduces equipment power
3% and extends the lifetime of fans.
Port hibernation: The port hibernation technology enables the S9300 to adjust the output power according to
the trafc on a port, thus saving power 6% without packet loss.

Universal Components to Reduce Costs of Spare Parts

The S9300 adopts the industry-leading heat dissipation design, which solves the problem of heat dissipation on
large-capacity equipment. This design enables the S9300 to provide the highest port density per cabinet in the
industry.
All models of the S9300 series use the power supplies, fans, environment monitoring units of the same type. The
highly uniform design reduces models of components, and thus saves the customer's investment.
The S9300 adopts energy saving chips and a high-efcient energy saving management platform. Its energyefciency ratio is higher than counterpart products.

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separately, which can reduce noise 10% and save power.

Product Specications
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Item

S9303

S9306

S9312

Backplane capacity

3Tbps

6Tbps

12Tbps

Switching capacity

720G/1.92T

2T/5.12T

2T/5.12T

Throughput

540Mpps/1440Mpps

1080Mpps/2880Mpps

1320Mpps/3360Mpps

LPU slots

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GE port density

144

288

576

144

288

576

10GE port density

Supports access, trunk, and hybrid VLAN.

Supports the default VLAN.
VLAN

Supports VLAN switching.

Supports QinQ and selective QinQ.
Supports dynamic VLAN allocation based on MAC
Supports dynamic learning and aging of MAC addresses.

MAC address

Supports static, dynamic, and blackhole MAC address entries.

Filters packets based on source MAC addresses.
Restricts MAC address learning based on ports and VLANs.
Supports STP, RSTP, and MSTP.

STP

Supports BPDU protection, root protection, and loop protection.

Supports BPDU tunnels.

IP routing

Supports IPv4 routing protocols, such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS.
Supports IPv6 routing protocols, such as, RIPng, OSPFv3, ISISv6, and BGPv4.
Supports IGMP v1/v2/v3 and IGMP v1/v2/v3 snooping.
Supports PIM DM, PIM SM and PIM SSM
Supports MSDP and MBGP

Multicast

Supports prompt leave of multicast members.

Supports multicast trafc control.
Supports the multicast querier.
Supports suppression on multicast packets.
Supports multicast CAC.
Supports basic MPLS functions.

MPLS

Supports MPLS OAM.

Supports MPLS TE.
Supports MPLS VPN/VLL/VPLS.
Supports LACP and Enhanced-Trunk.
Supports VRRP and BFD for VRRP.
Supports BFD for BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, and Static routing.
Supports NSF and GR for BGP, IS-IS, OSPF and LDP.

Reliability

Supports TE FRR and IP FRR.

Supports Ethernet OAM (802.3ah and 802.1ag).
Supports DLDP.
Supports ISSU.
Supports CSS.

S9303

S9306

S9312

QoS

Supports the queue scheduling algorithms of PQ, WRR, DRR, PQ+WRR, and
PQ+DRR.
Supports the congestion avoidance mechanisms such as WRED and tail drop.
Supports H-QoS.
Supports trafc shaping.
Supports IEEE 802.3ah.

EPON OLT

Supports DBA.
Limit of ONU both downstream and upstream bandwidth.
Loopback test of ONU.
Supports Console, Telnet, and SSH terminals.
Supports the network management protocols, such as SNMPv1/v2/v3.

Conguration and
Maintenance

Supports le uploading and downloading through FTP and TFTP.

Supports BootROM upgrade and remote upgrade.
Supports hot patches.
Supports user operation logs.
Supports 802.1x authentication and portal authentication.
Supports NAC.
Supports RADIUS and HWTACACS authentication for login users.

Security and Management

Provides hierarchical protection for commands to prevent unauthorized users from

accessing the equipment.
Defends against DoS attack, TCP SYN Flood attack, UDP Flood attack, broadcast
storm, and heavy trafc attack.
Provides 1K CPU queues for CPU protection.
Supports the ping and tracert functions based on ICMP packets.
Supports RMON.
Supports Firewall.
Supports NAT.

Service Function

Supports Netstream.
Supports IPSec.
Supports Load Balance.

Chassis dimensions (width

442476175
x depth x height) (mm)

442476442

442476664

Chassis weight (empty)

<15Kg

<30Kg

<45Kg

Working voltage

DC38.4V72V
AC90V290V

Chassis power supply

capability
(without PoE power
supply)

800W

1600W

1600W

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Supports the actions of ACL, CAR, re-mark, and schedule.

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Supports traffic classification based on the Layer-2 header, Layer-3 information,

Layer-4 information, and 802.1p priority.

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S9300 is modular conguration. Product conguration includes basic conguration, software License, Line
Processing Units (LPU), Service Processing Unit (SPU), daughter units, and other types of units (CSS Service Unit,
Clock Pinch Card), transceiver and ber connectors.
Product conguration must include the basic conguration, for the rst time purchase. Basic conguration
includes Assembly Chassis, Switch Routing Unit (SRU) and power module. SRU must congure at least one unit,
but we recommend congure 2 units in order to improve equipment reliability. Power module must congure at
least one module, but we recommend congure 2 modules for 1 +1 redundant in order to improve equipment
reliability. DC power module and AC power module does not support mixed-conguration. Then, based on
actual requirement you can congure software license, LPUs, SPUs and daughter units. These units may choose
from the ordering information table as followed. Finally, you can select the transceivers and ber connectors,
which can refer to the list of common quotes.
If there already has been a basic conguration, only on this basis, you can add LPUs and upgrade software from
the ordering information table as followed, according to the actual demand.

Typical Applications
1 Large Enterprise Campus
Quidway S9300 core switches help users to construct enterprise campus network with high reliability, high
performance, and business easy to expand and manage. S9300 has distributed IPv4/IPv6/MPLS wire speed
switching capacity to meet the enterprise campus core node and aggregation node, which has high-density
10-Gigabit massive data throughput. S9300 can provide CPU queue based on hardware, which can protect
network against DDOS attacks and a variety of security threats.

EMAIL

DNS

Management
Portal

Internet

WAN

Web & Email

S9300

CSS Clustering

Aggregation

S9300

10

S9300

Access

S9300

Access

S9300

Fit AP

2 Large Information Data Center

S9300 series switches can be used as a large data center core of high density 10-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit

reduce overall TCO (Total Cost Ownership) of data center network. S9300 supports ISSU, IP FRR, hardware-level
BFD, NSF, VRRP, E-Trunk high reliability technology, sustainable operation of data center operations.

Campus Core

S9300

S9300

DNS

EMAIL

Web & Email

CSS Clustering

CSS Clustering

Portal

APP

APP

S9300

APP

APP

CSS Clustering

DB

DB

DB

3 Metropolitan Area Network

Quidway S9300 series switches aggregate DSLAM, LAN switches and enterprise customers, providing high switching
capabilities and high-density 10G interfaces. Aggregation layer can be smoothly upgraded from 10G to 40G/100G,
to meet the growing carrier demand for network bandwidth. S9300 supports RRPP, Ethernet OAM, VRRP, MPLS L2/
L3VPN and other features, to meet the IPTV, HSI and business lease-line applications to meet carrier-class reliability,
security, and manageability requirements.

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aggregation node help enterprises to build highly reliable, non-blocking, virtualization, high security data center

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DSLAM

S9303
S9306/S9312

S9303

SR
S9306/S9312

CPE

S9303

AG

SR
DSLAM

S9303/06

IPTV Server

VOD Server
CPE

Order Information
1. Quidway S9300 models

Product Description
S9303 Assembly Chassis
S9306 Assembly Chassis
S9306 Assembly Chassis-POE
S9312 Assembly Chassis
S9312 Assembly Chassis-POE
2. SRUs of the Quidway S9300s

Product Description
S9306/S9312 Switch Routing Unit-SRUA
S9306/S9312 Switch Routing Unit-SRUB
S9303 Switch Routing Unit
Flexible Service Unit
CSS Service Unit
Clock Pinch Card-1588v2

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3. Power Modules of the Quidway S9300s

Product Description

4. LPUs of the Quidway S9300s

Product Description
48-Port 100BASE-FX Interface Card
48-Port 10/100BASE-T Interface Card
48-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card
48-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Interface Card
48-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Interface Card with PoE
24-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card
24-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX and 8-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Combo Interface Card
36-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T and 12-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card
24-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX and 2-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card
24-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T and 2-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card
48-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card
12-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card
4-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card
2-Port 10GBASE-X Interface Card
Mother Card of WAN Interface Cards
4-Port 155M POS Interface Card
4-Port 622M POS Interface Card
1-Port 2.5G POS Interface Card
12-Port 1000BASE-PX Passive Optical Line Terminal and 12-Port 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Interface Card
Service Processing Unit*
* Service Processing Unit supports Firewall, IPSec, Load Balance, Netstream functions.

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