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Chapter 1  Documentation Obtaining

H3C Technology Co., Ltd. provides various ways for your convenience to obtain documentations (such as product and newly-added-feature documentations) in time. You can obtain documentations in one of the following ways:

l           CD-ROMs shipped with devices

l           H3C website

l           Software release notes

1.1  CD-ROM

H3C delivers a CD-ROM together with each device. The CD-ROM contains a complete product document set, including the operation manual, command manual, installation manual, and compatibility manual. After installing the reader program provided by the CD-ROM, you can search for the desired contents in a convenient way through the reader interface.

For reasons such as product version upgrade, the manual contents in the CD-ROM are subject to change without notice. Therefore, the contents in the CD-ROM may not be the latest version. This document only serves as user guide. Unless otherwise noted, all information in the document does not claim or imply any warranty. For the latest software documentation, go to the H3C website.

1.2  Huawei-3Com Website

Perform the following steps to query and download the product documentation from the H3C website.

Table 1-1 Obtain product documentation from the H3C website

Register

Log into http:// www.h3c.com. Click [Login/Register] on the home page. Enter your username and password and click <Register>.

Obtain product documentation

Click [Documentation Center] on the home page to find the documentation by product category.

Select a product to display the detailed list of the product.

Specify a device type and select a manual for that product.

 

1.3  Software Release Notes

With software upgrade, new software features may be added. You can acquire the information about the newly added software features through software release notes.


Chapter 2  Related Software Release

2.1  Related Software Release

The two manuals, H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches Operation Manual Release 3100 and the H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches Command Manual Release 3100, are corresponding to the software Release 3128 of the S7500 series products.

2.2  Related Documentation

Table 2-1 Related documentation

Manual

Version

H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches  Installation Manual

(V2.02)

H3C S7502 Ethernet Switches  Installation Manual

(V1.01)

H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches  Operation Manual – Release 3100

(V1.00)

H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches  Command Manual – Release 3100

(V1.00)

 

 


Chapter 3  Product Overview

3.1  Introduction

The H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches (hereinafter referred to as the S7500 series) are a series of high-capacity modularized Layer 2/3 wire-speed Ethernet switching products. Among this series, S7503, S7506 and S7506R are oriented to the aggregation layer of IP metropolitan area networks (MANs), and the core layer of small- and medium-sized enterprise networks and campus networks; and S7502 are oriented to the core layer of small- and medium-sized networks, and aggregation and access layers of IP MANs. The S7500 series provide powerful switching capability and outstanding network availability, well update ability, high performance and powerful network control ability.

3.2  Available Switch Models

Table 3-1 lists the available models of the S7500 series.

Table 3-1 Available models of the S7500 series

Switch Model

Power supply

Total slots

Switching engines

Service cards

S7502

AC and DC redundant power supplies

2

Single switching engine, in slot 1

One, in slot 2

S7503

4

Single switching engine, in slot 0

Three, in slot 1 to 3

S7506

7

Single switching engine, in slot 0

Six, in slot 1 to 6

S7506R

8

Dual redundant switching engines, in slot 0 and 1

Six, in slot 2 to 7

 

3.3  Switching Engines

The switching engines serve as the cores of the S7500 series. Different S7500 switch models can use different switching engines, as listed in Table 3-2 and Table 3-3.

Table 3-2 Switching engines applicable to S7503/S7506/S7506R

Engine model

Applicable to…

Salience III (LS81SRPG)

S7503, S7506, S7506R

Salience III Plus (LS81SRPG1)

S7503, S7506, S7506R

Salience III Edge (LS81SRPG3)

S7503, S7506, S7506R

 

Table 3-3 Switching engines applicable to S7502

Engine model

Description

LS81P12TE

4-port 10/100/1000BASE-T + 12-port 1000BASE-X (SFP) GE SRPU

LS81T12PE

12-port 10/100/1000BASE-T + 4-port 1000BASE-X (SFP) GE SRPU

LS81T16P

16-port 10/100/1000Base-T + 8-port 1000Base-X (SFP) GE SRPU, supporting high-speed XG bus

LS81T32P

32-port 10/100/1000Base-T + 16-port 1000Base-X (SFP) GE SRPU, supporting high-speed XG bus

LS81GT48B

48-port 10/100/1000Base-T GE SRPU, supporting high-speed XG bus

LS81GP48

48-port 1000Base-X (SFP) GE SRPU, supporting high-speed XG bus

LS81TGX2

2-port 10GBASE-XFP 10GE SRPU, supporting high-speed XG bus

LS81TGX4

4-port 10GBASE-XFP 10GE SRPU, supporting high-speed XG bus

 

1.1.1  Switching Engines and Adapted Service Cards

The S7500 series have various models of switching engines and services cards for you to choose. But note that the service cards you select must adapt to the switching engine you select. See Table 3-4 and Table 3-5 for details.

Table 3-4 Switching engines and adapted service cards for S7503/S7506/S7506R

Switching engine

 

Service card

Salience III

Salience III Plus

Salience III Edge

LS81FT48A

LS81FT48E

LS81FT48F

LS81FM24A

LS81FS24A

LS81FP48

LS81GT8UA

LS81GT8UE

LS82GT20

LS82GT20A

LS81GT48

LS81GT48A

LS81GT48B

LS81T12P

LS81T12PE

LS81T16P

LS81T32P

LS81P12T

LS81P12TE

LS81GB8UA

LS81GP8UB

LS82GP20

LS82GP20A

LS81GP48

LS81TGX1B

LS81TGX1C

LS81TGX2

LS81TGX4

LS81VSNP

 

Table 3-5 Switching engines and adapted service cards for S7502

Switching engine

Service

card

LS81T12PE/ LS81P12TE

LS81
T16P

LS81
T32P

LS81
GT48B

LS81
GP48

LS81
TGX2

LS81
TGX4

LS81FT48A

LS81FT48E

LS81FT48F

LS81FM24A

LS81FS24A

LS81FP48

LS81GT8UA

LS81GT8UE

LS82GT20

LS82GT20A

LS81GT48

LS81GT48A

LS81GT48B