| Technology | | | ZTE's T8000 is ready for deployment | | | TT Correspondent | | 15 Jun 2011 | | |  ZTE, a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, announced on Tuesday that its ZXR10 M6000-16 edge/service router based on the T8000 platform, which uses microprocessors developed by ZTE, is one of the first to pass the items in the 100G Ethernet Router Performance and Scalability Independent Test Program organized by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC).
ZTE’s next-generation T8000 IP device platform was released in 2009, and is a strategic product designed to satisfy the industry’s requirements for the next decade. Based on this unified hardware and software platform, ZTE introduced the T8000 cluster router system as part of the same product family, including an Internet super core, the M6000-16 MPLS edge/service router and the xGW wireless packet core. In May 2011, EANTC tested the M6000-16 100G system at ZTE’s R&D center in Nanjing, China.
EANTC validated items such as IPv4 forwarding, IPV4 multicast forwarding, IPv6 forwarding ,RSVP-TE, MPLS label forwarding, HQoS, L2VPN, L3VPN, load balancing based on IP routes, load balancing based on Link Aggregation, full-rate forwarding for all packet sizes tested and all-service power consumption and stability.
The ZXR10 T8000 also employs ZTE-developed forwarding, switching and interface chips for packet receiving and route forwarding and switching, and supports full-rate forwarding, especially in multiservice overlay, so its performance is stable and reliable over a long period of time. Using different software, the M6000-16 router also passed the IPv6 forwarding test, proving its ability to support the transition to an IPv6 data plane. |
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