NE20E-S Universal Service Router

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Product Overview

NE20E-S Universal Service Router

NetEngine20E-S Universal Service Router (NE20E-S) series

are high-end network products developed by Huawei
for transportation, finance, electricity, government,
education, and enterprise networks. They mainly serve as
aggregation nodes on IP backbone networks, core nodes
on small and medium enterprise networks, edge nodes
on campus networks, and access nodes on small and
medium education networks.
The NE20E-S runs on the Versatile Routing Platform (VRP)
operating system and uses Huawei-developed NP chips and
hardware-based forwarding and non-blocking switching
technologies. The NE20E-S has the following features:
Line-rate forwarding capabilities, carrier-class reliability,
excellent scalability, a well-designed quality of service
(QoS) mechanism, and strong service processing
capabilities

Powerful service access and aggregation capabilities

and various features, such as Layer 2 virtual private
network (L2VPN), L3VPN, multicast, multicast VPN
(MVPN), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic
Engineering (TE), and QoS, to ensure carrier-class
service transmission reliability
Various service features, such as Generic Routing
Encapsulation (GRE), IP security (IPsec), Network
Address Translation (NAT), and NetStream
Support for IPv6 and smooth transition from IPv4 to
IPv6
The NE20E-S can be flexibly deployed at the access
and aggregation layer of IP/MPLS networks and work
with other NE routers to provide an all-around network
solution for enterprise users, satisfying diversified service
requirements in the future.

Appearance
The NE20E-S series include the NE20E-S2E, NE20E-S2F, NE20E-S4, NE20E-S8, and NE20E-S16.

NE20E-S2E

NE20E-S4

NE20E-S2F

NE20E-S8

NE20E-S16

Product Features

The NE20E-S uses the latest VRP8 platform, which is

also used by the NE5000E core router. The VRP uses the
Resilient Distributed Framework (RDF), with separated
management plane, service plane, data plane, and
monitoring module, greatly increasing the system
flexibility, reliability, manageability, and expansibility.
The VRP has grown mature and stable over the years. So
far, more than 4 million sets are running on live networks.
Its rich features and stability have proven themselves
through wide applications.

Huawei-developed Chips, Service on

Demand
The NE20E-S uses in-built Huawei developed NP chips
that allow the NE20E-S to have a flexible programmable
architecture. Microcode programming can be used for
new service deployment, without the need to replace
hardware, which saves investments. In addition, this
architecture drastically shortens the technological
innovation cycle and accelerates new service launch
speed, helping customers build flexible and scalable
networks.

Leading Industrial Design, Energyconserving

The NE20E-S uses a leading industrial design, with
low power consumption, energy conservation, and
environmental protection. The NE20E-S is only 220
mm deep and has a lowest height of 2 U, reducing the
required installation space. It can be used when the
ambient temperature is between 40C and +65C,
applicable to outdoor deployment.

NE20E-S Universal Service Router

Advanced VRP Platform

Comprehensive Access and

Aggregation Capabilities
The NE20E-S supports various interface types (E1/CE1,
POS, CPOS, GE, 10GE, and 40GE) and high-density fixed
ports to provide access and aggregation WAN services
as well as Ethernet multi-service transmission platform
(MSTP) aggregation services, satisfying various service
requirements.

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Powerful Service Support

All-Round Reliability Solution

The NE20E-S provides powerful service processing capabilities.

The NE20E-S provides reliability protection at different

levels, including the equipment level, network level,
and service level. The NE20E-S can provide a multi-level
reliability solution that completely meets carrier-class
reliability. The NE20E-S lays the foundation for carrier-class
services with a system availability of 99.999%.
The following describes the reliability protection levels
that the NE20E-S provides:

Powerful routing capabilities

The NE20E-S supports various routing protocols, such
as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest
Path First (OSPF), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate
System (IS-IS), Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP4),
and multicast routing protocols. The NE20E-S supports
plaintext and ciphertext authentication as well as fast
convergence. These features ensure network stability and
security in complex routing environments.

Strong service bearer capabilities

The NE20E-S can have L2VPN, L3VPN, and MVPN
deployed at the same time, as networks require. The
NE20E-S also supports TE, selective 802.1Q-in-802.1Q
(QinQ), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP),
and NetStream. The NE20E-S can provide access for both
traditional and newly emerging services, satisfying the
needs of multiple service environments.

Powerful and expansible multicast capabilities

The NE20E-S supports IPv4/IPv6 multicast protocols, such
as Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIMSM), PIM - Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM), Multicast
Listener Discovery Version 1 (MLDv1), MLDv2, Internet
Group Membership Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3), and IGMP
snooping. The NE20E-S has the flexibility to carry video
services, such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and satisfy
multicast service requirements on networks of any scale.

Equipment-level reliability
The NE20E-S provides redundancy backup for key
components. These key components support hot swap
and hot backup. The NE20E-S also uses technologies,
such as non-stop routing (NSR), non-stop forwarding
(NSF), and in-service software upgrade (ISSU), to ensure
uninterrupted service forwarding.

Network-level reliability
The NE20E-S uses the following technologies to
provide network-level reliability: IP fast reroute (FRR),
Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) FRR, VPN FRR, TE FRR,
hot standby, fast convergence of Interior Gateway
Protocols (IGP), BGP, and multicast routes, Virtual Router
Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), trunk load balancing
and backup, hardware-based Bidirectional Forwarding
Detection (BFD) of 3.3 ms, MPLS OAM, and Ethernet
OAM. The NE20E-S provides an end-to-end protection
switching speed of 200 ms with no service interruption.

Service-level reliability

Flexible VS Technologies
The NE20E-S supports flexible virtual system (VS)
technologies. A physical router can be divided into
multiple logical routers between which resources are
separated. Services can be deployed on different VSs to
form a multi-service network with service separation. The
use of VSs enhances security and reliability.

Innovative IP Hard Pipe Solution

IP hard pipe is an IP network-based access technology
newly developed by Huawei. It works with MPLS TE and
HQoS and reserves hardware resources to implement
dedicated use of bandwidth for leased line services,
ensuring low delay and high reliability.
The NE20E-S supports IP hard pipe, providing a highquality IP leased line solution for enterprises. IP hard pipe
strictly isolates soft and hard pipes by hardware so that
soft and hard pipe bandwidths are isolated and cannot
be preempted. A hard pipe is similar to a synchronous
digital hierarchy (SDH) rigid pipe. IP hard pipe uses IP Flow
Performance Measurement (FPM) to measure service
quality of flows and uses the NMS and uTraffic to display
the measurement result and real-time service operating

status, making IP leased line services controllable,

manageable, and visible.

Complete OAM Technologies, Easy

to Deploy and Maintain
The NE20E-S supports complete OAM technologies.
Detection packets can be sent periodically or manually
to detect network connectivity for network fault locating
and diagnosis. P2P Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM), E2E
Connectivity Fault Management (CFM), E2E Y.1731,
and their combinations are used to provide a complete
Ethernet OAM solution.
The NE20E supports a generalflow test methodology
in compliance with RFC 2544 for offline performance
monitoring. RFC 2544 defines a set of standard methods
for evaluating network performance, which can be used
in various networking scenarios that have different packet
formats. The RFC 2544 tests are performed before service
provisioning. During a test, a device simulates network
packets and sends them to itself so that it can measure
network performance. No tester is needed during this
process. RFC 2544 tests can be used before service
cutover for customers to evaluate whether the network
performance indicators are ready.

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The NE20E-S uses the following technologies to provide

service-level reliability for L2VPNs and L3VPNs: VPN FRR,
E-VRRP, VLL FRR, Ethernet OAM, and PW redundancy.
These technologies ensure stable and reliable service
operation with no service interruption.

The NE20E-S supports IP FPM developed by Huawei

to measure IP network performance. IP FPM directly
measures IP service packets and monitors service changes
online for fast fault locating. IP FPM provides highlyaccurate measurements. It can be flexibly deployed and
has no impact on services.

Product Specications

NE20E-S Universal Service Router

Item

NE20E-S2F

NE20E-S4

NE20E-S8

NE20E-S16

Switching capacity

160 Gbps

320 Gbps

480 Gbps

480 Gbps

480 Gbps

Forwarding
performance

70 Mpps

150 Mpps

180 Mpps

360 Mpps

360 Mpps

Fixed port

2*10GE(SFP+) and
24*GE(SFP)

4*10GE(SFP+) and
40*GE(SFP)

2 MPUs

2 MPUs

2 MPUs

Number of slots

2 PICs

2 PICs

1 NSP
4 PICs

2 NSPs
8 PICs

2 NSPs
16 PICs

132 mm x 442
mm x 220 mm
(DC, 3 U)
175 mm x 442
mm x 220 mm
(AC, 4 U)

222 mm x 442
mm x 220 mm
(DC, 5 U)
264 mm x 442
mm x 220 mm
(AC, 6 U)

353 mm x 442
mm x 220 mm (8
U)

Dimensions
(H x W x D)

NE20E-S2E

89 mm x 442 mm
x 220 mm (2 U)

89 mm x 442 mm
x 220 mm (2 U)

Power Consumption
(in full configuration)

195 W (DC)
219 W (AC)

309 W (DC)
335 W (AC)

398 W (DC)
456 W (AC)

645 W (DC)
703 W (AC)

696 W (DC)
740 W (AC)

Weight (in full

configuration)

9.3kg (DC)
10.3kg (AC)

9.4kg (DC)
10.4kg (AC)

13.7kgDC
18.1kgAC

22.3kg (DC)
27.0kg (AC)

34.0kg (DC)
36.0kg (AC)

Interface type

40GE
10GE
GE/FE
OC-3c/STM-1c POS
OC-12c/STM-4c POS
Channelized OC-3/STM-1 POS
E1/CE1

Clock synchronization

Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588v2

Layer 2 features

IEEE 802.1q, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.1ab, and STP/RSTP/MSTP

NE20E-S2E

NE20E-S2F

NE20E-S4

NE20E-S8

NE20E-S16

IPv4/IPv6 routing
protocols

IPv4 static routes and dynamic routing protocols, such as RIP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP
IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
Various IPv4-to-IPv6 transition technologies: manual tunnel, 6to4 tunnel, and 6PE
IPv6 static routes and dynamic routing protocols, such as BGP4+, RIPng, OSPFv3, and IS-ISv6
IPv6 neighbor discovery, PMTU discovery, TCP6, ping IPv6, tracert IPv6, socket IPv6, and IPv6 policy-based routing

L2/L3 VPN

LDP over TE, VPLS, H-VPLS, and VPN policy-based routing

Martini MPLS L2VPN
VLL/VPLS accessing L3VPN
MPLS/BGP L3VPN and inter-AS VPN

Multicast

IGMPv1/v2/v3, IGMP snooping, IPv6 multicast, static multicast routing, PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, MBGP, and
NG MVPN

QoS

WRED, five-level HQoS, and VLL/PWE3 QoS

Reliability

NSR for OSPF/RIP/LDP/RSVP-TE/PIM/MSDP/IGMP/ARP/L3VPN/ISIS/BGP/VLL/VRRP

GR for BGP/OSPF/ISIS/LDP/VLL/VPLS/RSVP/L3VPN/PIM
BFD for static route/fast reroute/VRRP/ISIS/OSPF/BGP/PIM/LSP/IPv6
Fast convergence of BGP/IGP/multicast routes
IP/LDP FRR, TE FRR, VPN FRR, and VLL FRR
Ethernet OAM, Y.1731, and PWE3 E2E protection
ISSU and in-service patching for smooth software upgrades

Security

ACL-based packet filtering, AAA, SNMPv3 encryption and authentication, URPF, GTSM, DHCP snooping,
ARP attack defense, and SSHv2

Value-added services

NAT, IPSec, GRE, NetStream

OAM

Y.1731, IP FPM, MPLS OAM, 802.1ag, and 802.3ah

Operating
temperature

-5C to +65C

Operating humidity

5% RH to 85% RH, non-condensing

Operating altitude

3000 meters

-5C to +65C

40C to +65C

40C to +65C

NE20E-S Universal Service Router

Item

0C to 45C

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