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What is the Huawei S6700 Series Switch?
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The Huawei S6700 Series Switch is a high-performance, stackable layer-3 access device designed to deliver up to 1.44 Tbps switching capacity, supporting 10GE, 25GE, and 40GE interfaces for campus and data center aggregation.
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What key features distinguish the S6700 Series?
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The S6700 Series offers hardware-based IPv4/IPv6 routing, up to 384 10GE ports in a stack, flexible PoE/PoE+ support, Huawei VRP operating system, advanced QoS, and rich security and virtualization capabilities.
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How many ports and interface options are available?
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Each S6700 chassis houses 24 or 48 fixed GE/10GE ports and four 40GE QSFP+ uplinks, with optional 25GE SFP28 and 100GE QSFP28 line cards for flexible expansion.
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How does Huawei S6700 stacking work?
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The S6700 Series uses Huawei iStack technology to interconnect up to nine switches into a single logical device, providing unified management, sub-50 ms failover, and up to 3.6 Tbps backplane bandwidth.
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Does the S6700 Series support PoE and PoE+?
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Yes, selected S6700 models provide up to 370 W or 740 W PoE/PoE+ budgets per switch, automatically detecting and powering IEEE 802.3af/at devices without manual configuration.
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What is the forwarding performance of the S6700?
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With a non-blocking architecture and 1.44 Tbps switching capacity, each S6700 delivers up to 1.06 billion packets per second (Mpps) forwarding performance.
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Are redundant power supplies supported?
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Yes, the S6700 chassis supports dual hot-swappable AC or DC power modules, enabling 1+1 redundancy for uninterrupted operation in enterprise networks.
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How does the S6700 handle cooling?
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The switch uses front-to-rear redundant, hot-swappable fans with intelligent speed control to maintain optimal temperatures while minimizing noise in wiring closets.
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Which management protocols does it support?
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The S6700 supports CLI, Web GUI, SNMP v1/v2c/v3, RMON, NetConf/YANG, SSH, Telnet, and eSight centralized management for comprehensive monitoring and control.
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What security features are built into the S6700?
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Huawei S6700 offers MACsec encryption, 802.1X authentication, DHCP snooping, ARP inspection, IP source guard, and ACLs to protect against layer-2 attacks and unauthorized access.
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How does the S6700 Series implement QoS?
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The switch provides hardware-based traffic classification, priority queuing, rate limiting, congestion avoidance, and hierarchical scheduling to guarantee service-level performance.
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Does it support virtualization technologies?
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Yes, the S6700 supports VRF, QinQ, FlexNetwork Virtual Machine (FnV), and VXLAN gateway functions for traffic isolation and multi-tenant segmentation.
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What software and licensing model is used?
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Huawei VRP operating system runs on the S6700 with feature licenses for advanced security, virtualization, and MPLS functions, all managed through an intuitive license portal.
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Which optical modules and cables are compatible?
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The S6700 is compatible with Huawei SFP, SFP+, SFP28, QSFP+, and QSFP28 transceivers, supporting multimode, single-mode, CWDM, DWDM, and DAC/AOC cables for flexible deployment.
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What are typical deployment scenarios?
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The S6700 excels as a campus distribution switch, small data center leaf, branch office core, and converged access platform for unified wired and wireless services.
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How are software upgrades and maintenance performed?
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Software upgrades use in-service software upgrade (ISSU) with dual images to ensure zero-downtime updates, while hot-swappable fans and power modules simplify hardware maintenance.
