PARTNER CONTENT: The technical summit themed “Bring Net5.5G into Reality, Inspire New Growth”, was recently held during the MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress 2024. At the summit, Carsten Rossenhövel, CTO of the Europe Advanced Network Test Center (EANTC), presented the progress of multi-vendor interoperability tests and the verification report on Huawei’s 19.2T service boards. He pointed out that the successful testing of key features — including line-rate forwarding of high-density 400GE ports, multi-vendor interoperability testing with SRv6 and slicing technologies, and BGP graceful degradation — indicates that Net5.5G technologies are mature.
Based in Berlin, EANTC is the world’s leading independent test center for the telecommunication industry. Each year, the test center invites all interested telecommunication equipment manufacturers — Huawei included — to perform interoperability tests based on the industry’s latest solutions and technologies, aiming to verify the level of interoperability for related technical standards. The testing covers multiple fields, including EVPN, SRv6, and clock synchronization. Carsten Rossenhövel noted that over the past five years, EANTC found that SRv6 — a core technology of Net5.5G — has gradually become a focus for vendors as more and more of them participate in SRv6 testing. EANTC not only increased the complexity of SRv6 Flex-Algo and SRv6 TE policy test cases in this year’s SRv6 scope testing, but also introduced new ones, such as BIERv6 and slice ID based on IPv6. Majority of participants, including Huawei, showed great interest and completed related tests, proving that SRv6 and slicing technologies such as Flex-Ago are mature enough for commercial use.
Carsten Rossenhövel also mentioned that EANTC released an independent test report in February this year to verify Huawei’s newly launched 19.2T line processing unit for the NetEngine 8000 X-series router family. This test was commissioned by Huawei in January this year and was done in Huawei’s Beijing lab. This test report covers 27 testing points, including the board forwarding performance, green energy saving, and device security features. Aligning with Net5.5G’s concept of building green ultra-broadband, highly autonomous, deterministic, and secure self-healing networks, EANTC placed focus on high-density 400GE forwarding, end-to-end SRv6 transport, intelligent energy saving, and BGP graceful degradation. The test results were excellent in all categories.
Carsten Rossenhoevel said, “EANTC’s latest interoperability test and our independent test of the 19.2T board confirms Huawei’s progressive industry position regarding 400GE/800GE interfaces, SRv6 interworking, Flex-Algo slicing and other related technologies. At EANTC, we witness Huawei’s endeavors to provide mature solutions and extensive technology options for operators towards the Net5.5G evolution.