H3C S9828 Series Data Center Switches

Industry-leading high density 800G ports

The switch offers up to 128-port 800G ports and 204.8Tbps(bi) forwarding capacity which enable the switch to provide high-density server access in high-end data centers without oversubscription.

Supports up to 8K 800G NICs port access in a single Spine-Leaf architecture；Compared to previous-generation devices at the same scale, reduces device count by 70% and optical transceiver usage by 50%.

Abundant data center features

The switch supports abundant data center features, including:

MP-BGP EVPN (Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol Ethernet Virtual Private Network) which can run as VXLAN control plane to simplify VXLAN configuration, eliminate traffic flooding and reduce full mesh requirements between VTEPs via the introduction of BGP RR.

ROCEv2 network, based on Priority-based Flow Control (PFC), ECN Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS). Which ensures low latency and lossless RDMA applications and high-speed computing services.

H3C multichassis link aggregation (M-LAG)

H3C S9828 series switch suports M-LAG, which enables links of multiple switches to aggregate into one to implement device-level link backup. M-LAG is applicable to servers dual-homed to a pair of access devices for node redundancy.

Streamlined topology: M-LAG simplifies the network topology and spanning tree configuration by virtualizing two physical devices into one logical device.

Independent upgrading: The DR member devices can be upgraded independently one by one to minimize the impact on traffic forwarding.

High availability: The DR system uses a keepalive link to detect multi-active collision to ensure that only one member device forwards traffic after a DR system splits.

Powerful visibility

H3C S9828 series switches conform to the trend of automated data operation and maintenance, and support visibility of data center.

Provides a variety of traffic monitoring and analytic tools, including sFlow, NetStream, SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN mirroring, and port mirroring to help customers perform precise traffic analysis and gain visibility into network application traffic. With these tools, customers can collect network traffic data to evaluate network health status, create traffic analysis reports, perform traffic engineering, and optimize resource allocation.

Supports realtime monitoring of buffer and port queues, allowing for visible and dynamic network optimization.

Supports gRPC

Powerful SDN capability

H3C S9828 series switches adopt the next-generation chip with more flexible Openflow FlowTable, more resources and accurate ACL matching, which greatly improves the software-defined network (SDN) capabilities and meet the demand of data center SDN network.

H3C S9828 series switches can interconnect with H3C SeerEngine-DC Controller through standard protocols such as OVSDB, Netconf and SNMP to implement network automatic deployment and configuration.

Excellent manageability

The switch improves system management through the following ways:

Provides multiple management interfaces, including the serial console port, USB port, two out-of-band management ports.

Supports multiple access methods, including SNMPv1/v2c/v3, Telnet, SSH 2.0, SSL, and FTP.

Supports standard NETCONF APIs that allow users to configure and manage the switch, enhancing the compatibility with third-party applications.

Health perception function of optical transceiver modules

Supports optical transceiver modules health perception function, allowing real-time monitoring and perception of various indicators such as transceiver Receive/Transmit power, temperature, current, voltage, CRC, per-channel bit error rate, SNR, pre-FEC bit error rate, and statistics of uncorrectable bit errors. Collaborates with analyzers to detect and warn about issues like optical link attenuation and optical power loss in advance.

Supports optical port protection circuit.

Hardware specifications

Software specifications

Performance and scalability

The typical data center application for S9828 is AI/HPC scenarios.