Product Description
CloudEngine 16800: Industry's First Data Center Switch Built for the AI Era 1. The CloudEngine 16800 supports up to 36 x 100GE 36 x 40GE or 144 x 10GE line cards which provide line-rate forwarding. The CloudEngine 16804 provides up to 144 x 100GE 144 x 40GE or 576 x 10GE line-rate ports. Support 400GE ports in the future 2. Intelligent engine: embedded AI chip implementing intelligent optimization of network-wide traffic and pre-analysis of network-wide abnormal traffic 3. Numerous features: M-LAG VXLAN EVPN NSH Telemetry and iLossless AI algorithm
Large Capacity
CloudEngine 16800 includes a 48-port 400 GE line card per slot and is able to evolve to the autonomous driving network anticipating future digital traffic demand.
AI Engine
Embedded with an AI chip CloudEngine 16800 uses the unique iLossless algorithm to learn and train network-wide traffic in real time implementing network adaptation and self-optimization. With zero packet loss and E2E &mus latency it achieves maximum throughput.
Intelligent O&M
CloudEngine 16800 provides Telemetry-based data collection in milliseconds supporting the intelligent O&M platform. Its embedded AI chip supports edge AI processing and local inference and fault management.
 
Model | CloudEngine 16804 | CloudEngine 16808 | CloudEngine 16816 |
Switching Capacity | 43/387 Tbit/s2 | 86/774 Tbit/s2 | 173/1548 Tbit/s2 |
Forwarding Performance | 11280 Mpps | 22560 Mpps | 45120 Mpps |
Service Slots | 4 | 8 | 16 |
Switching Fabric Module Slots  | 6 (scalable to 9 for future expansion) | ||
Fabric Architecture | Clos architecture cell switching VoQ | ||
Airflow Design | Strict front-to-back airflow design | ||
Virtualization | M-LAG VS (1:16 virtualization) Cluster Switch System (CSS)3 VXLAN and VXLAN bridging QinQ access VXLAN | ||
L2/L3 | VLAN STP LACP Static route IPv4/IPv6 dynamic route protocol IP packet fragmentation and reassembly | ||
SFC | IETF-defined NSH | ||
Reliability | Microsegmentation Hardware-based Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)  | ||
O&M | Telemetry ERSPAN+ iPCA | ||
Programmability | Standard NETCONF interface Ansible-based automatic configuration and open-source module release |