4.1 Device Overview
This section gives an overview of the CX600-X8 hardware.
4.1.1 System Overview
This section gives an overview of the system.
System Overview
The CX600 series adopt a centralized routing engine and a distributed forwarding architecture.
This helps to provide rich and flexible services and to perform large-capacity forwarding.
The CX600-X8 has an integrated chassis, with main components which all support hot swapping.
The CX600-X8 supports all the Line Processing Units on the former CX600, but the Switch and
Route Processing Units (SRUs) and Switch and Fabric Units (SFUs) are new.
As shown in
, the CX600-X8 has eight LPU slots. The switching capacity of the entire
system is 7.08 Tbit/s.
shows the appearance of the CX600-X8.
Figure 4-1
Appearance of the CX600-X8
System Architecture
The CX600-X8 adopts a system architecture shown in
. In this architecture, the data
plane, management and control plane, and monitoring plane are separated. This design helps to
improve system reliability and facilitates upgrading of each plane separately.
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