ZXR10 5900E Series MPLS Easy-Maintenance

Routing Switch
Overview
ZXR10 5900E series MPLS easy-maintenance switches are box-like layer 3 MPLS routing switches that
deliver superior integrated network services for space-constrained environments in service provider
networks. It can serve as an aggregation switch in various scenarios including Metro area networks and IP
RAN.

Powered by European standard hardware architecture, state-of-the-art software platform, the industry's
first "Easy-maintenance" design philosophy, and industry-leading MPLS capability, ZXR10 5900E is a
milestone switch presented by ZTE Corporation. With ZXR10 5900E, you can build highly reliable, secure
and scalable networks, while ensuring terrific user experiences.

ZXR10 5900E offers the following switch types:

5916E, 5928E, 5928E-FI and 5952E. The interfaces ZXR10 5900E Series MPLS Easy-mainteance Switch
offered by these switches are listed below:

5916E: 12*GE RJ45 + 1* expansion card slot ZXR10 5916E

5928E: 24*GE RJ45 + 1* expansion card slot

ZXR10 5928E
5928E-FI: 24*GE SFP+ 1* expansion card slot

5952E: 16*GE RJ45/SFP + 4*subcard slots+

ZXR10 5928E-FI
1*expansion card slot

The expansion card slot can be equipped with the

following types of expansion cards:
ZXR10 5952E
4 GE RJ45 /4 GE SFP /4 10GE SFP+ /2 10GE SFP+

Innovative Features
ZXR10 5900E series switches have full support to all the leading L2/L3/MPLS features and provide big
switching capacity high density GE ports and flexible GE/10GE uplink ports, and therefore are suitable to
be placed at service provider networks

Modular Design Brings Scalability

ZXR10 5952E is able to provide ultimate flexible electrical/optical interface combinations for users:

5952E is a 2U high switch. Each of its four subcard slot can be equipped with 8*GE RJ45 cards or 8*GE SFP
cards;

5900E supports dual modular power supply, while 5952E in addition supports field-replaceable fan-tray.
Modular design brings ultimate flexibility for users to control investment and upgrade their network
continuously.

Full Service support

ZXR10 5900E supports diversified VLAN features, including Port-based VLAN, Subnet VLAN, Protocol-
based VLAN, Selective QinQ and VLAN translation in order to separate/distinguish different user's
different services.

Multicast-based technologies like IPTV are important profitable services for service providers.ZXR10
5900E fully supports L2/L3 multicast, including IGMP snooping, Filtering, Proxy and Fastleave, MVR
(Multicast VLAN Registration) and PIM-SM to facilitate the deployments of these services.

With IPTV control implemented, operators can apply different CAC (channel access control) rules for users
with channel packages.

ZXR10 5900E supports voice VLAN (which means the automatic assignment of dedicated VLAN and QoS
strategy to voice equipments), thus enabling the voice traffic to enjoy high priority.

ZXR10 5900E fully supports MPLS L2/L3 VPN technology, providing an economical reliable VPN solution
for commercial uses.

ZXR10 5900E also supports MCE, enabling it to run multiple VPN instances without running MPLS and
relieving the pressure on PE (provider edge) equipment.

Clock Synchronization

ZXR10 5928E and 5928E-FI are capable of the following clock synchronization patterns:

They provide BITS external clock input/output interfaces, GPS input and GPS output interfaces, and also
support synchronous Ethernet interface service.

They support 1588v2 precise time synchronization pattern; they can act as ordinary clock boundary clock,
transparent clock, and the 1588v2 algorithm can be implemented using either 1-step method or 2-step
method.

When multiple clock sources are available, the source with best quality can be configured as the primary
clock source, while other clock sources act as the backup for the primary clock source.

Usually, it's suggested to use synchronous Ethernet to achieve frequency synchronization and use 1588v2
to achieve phase synchronization.

PPPoE+ and VBAS

PPPoE+ and VBAS (Virtual Broadband Access Server) are two very useful measures to provide user circuit
identification means in user access network.
When acting as a L2 switch or L2/L3 switch and enabled with PPPoE+ or VBAS, ZXR10 5900E can insert
user circuit information into the packets so the BRAS can have the detailed user location info for future
billing/control/ACL implementation purposes.

Multi-Core Speed Up

ZXR10 5900E is equipped with a new-generation dual-core CPU processor, which greatly improves
processing efficiency.

Dual-core CPU greatly enhances the processing capability for data, voice, video and complex data
communication protocols. Virtual multi-core technology and dual-core processing architecture improves
control plane performance and control system reliability.

Easy-Maintenance

With innovative "easy-maintenance" concept incorporated in every detail of the design, ZXR10 5900E
brings ultimate efficiency and simplicity for the maintenance routines, cutting down the operating costs of
the network through simple yet efficient methods.

GVRP VLAN Registration Protocol can help network administrators reduce network configuration
workloads and easily deploy large amounts of VLANs in complicated networking environments. ZXR10
5900E series switches support the implementation, distribution, registration and transmission of VLAN
attribute in dynamic GVRP pattern, which can simplify VLAN configuration management, and reduce
network interconnection problems caused by inconsistent configuration.

Thanks to ZXR10 5900E's 220mm depth, it costs users little space to install the switch. All the hardware
components, including the power supply, all the access interfaces and uplink interfaces, fan modules (only
5952E supports replaceable fan module) are front accessible, making it convenient to administrate the
switches in space-constrained environments.

The innovative M-Button function enables the manager to fetch important equipment information
including port/memory/CPU status in case of network problems by reading the interface indicators,
enabling instant trouble-shooting, and thus reducing OPEX to the utmost extent by shrinking network
down time. M-button adds no more investments; only extra meanings are endowed to the status of the
interface indicators.

ZXR10 5900E supports Zero Configuration, which means the switch can automatically download software
images and start-up configurations. Zero configuration truly enables plug and play and reduces the
requirement for experienced engineers.

Green

Following green and eco-friendly design philosophy, ZXR10 5900E helps the customers save energy and
reduce power consumption from all the aspects of design:
ZXR10 5900E adopts the advanced chip technology, so the power consumption of the main chip can be
dramatically reduced.

ZXR10 5900E fully supports IEEE 802.3az, which means it can set the port to idle state dynamically when
there's no traffic transmission over the port. In this way, electricity can be saved, and the power
consumption of a single port can be reduced by 70%.

ZXR10 5900E has applied the latest energy-saving techniques, such as dynamically adjusting port power
according to cable length.

The materials used during the life span of 5900E completely meet RoHS and WEEE standards.

Enhanced Security

ZXR10 5900E supports diversified mechanisms to guarantee the security of the network:

CPU DDOS protection capability helps the equipment to mitigate the influence caused by attacks, while
the equipment itself won't be brought down, which ensures high network stability.

DAI (Dynamic ARP inspection) function and IP/MAC binding help prevent against DOS (Denial of Service)
attacks.

802.1X can be used for authentication purpose. Working together with a policy server, the user control
policy can be applied to 3900E after the authentication is done. Bandwidth limit/Qos strategy can thus be
implemented automatically.

Enhanced routing protocol communications, including simple password test and MD5 authentication can
be used to prevent the alteration of routing protocol interactions.

Traffic mirroring/analyzing functions like RMON (remote monitoring), SPAN (switched port analyzer),
RSPAN (remote switched port analyzer) and sFlow help analyze real-time network condition.

Technical Specification
Function and Parameters 5916E 5928E 5928E-FI 5952E
Fixed
12 GE RJ45 ports 24 GE RJ45 ports 24 GE SFP ports -
interfaces
Control card
(Number of 1*16 GE RJ45
Control - ports/1*16 GE
Interface
slots*Type of SFP ports
Combination control card)
Sub card
4*8 GE RJ45
(Number of
- ports/4*8 GE SFP
subcard
ports
slots*Type of
 Function and Parameters 5916E 5928E 5928E-FI 5952E
subcard)

Expansion
card (Number
of expansion
card 1*4 GE RJ45 ports/1*4 GE SFP ports/1*4 10GE SFP+ ports/1*2 10GE SFP+ ports
slots*Type of
expansion
card)
Backplane
240Gbps 240Gbps 240Gbps 320Gbps
Capacity
Switching
104Gbps 128Gbps 128Gbps 176Gbps
Capacity
Packet
Basic Forwarding 78Mpps 96Mpps 96Mpps 132Mpps
Rate
Parameters Route table
Depth(host
route number 16K+12K
+subnet route
number)
MAC table
32K
Depth
IEEE 802.1q VLAN,IEEE 802.1p,IEEE 802.3ad, STP,RSTP,MSTP, Selective QinQ, VLAN
L2 Features
translation, PVLAN,DHCP Snooping,802.1x
L3 Features Static routing, RIP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP,MCE

MPLS LDP,MPLS TE,VPLS,VPWS,H-VPLS,MPLS L3 VPN,CE Dual-homing Protection

Administratively scoped multicast/IPTV,
Multicast
MVR, IGMP,IGMP Snooping, Filtering ,Proxy and Fast Leave, PIM-SM,MSDP
Marking, modification of Qos priority and mapping between 802.1p, IP DSCP. 8
hardware-based queues per port, SP,WRR,SP+WRR queue scheduling
QoS
mechanisms, Policing/shaping based on port/flow, Congestion avoidance
Features mechanisms including WRED and Tail-Drop
CPU anti-attack, CPU overload protection, Broadcast/Multicast/unknown Unicast
Security suppression, STP Root Guard, BPDU guard, uRPF, RIP/OSPF/BGP MD5 encryption
checking, IP source Guard, DAI, Bidirectional ACL
Reliability LACP,ZESS,ZESR/ZESR+,VRRP,BFD
Clock
synchronizati IEEE 1588v2,Synchronous Ethernet
on
Enhanced
MFF,M-BUTTON, EEE, Zero-Configuration
Features
RS232 Console (RJ45),Ethernet management port, CLI, Telnet, SSH, Local and
Equipment Equipment
remote(Radius/Tacacs+)authentication of user, Web management, SNMP,
Management Management
NetNumen U31,Cluster Management(ZGMP)
43.6mm*442mm 43.6mm*442mm 43.6mm*442mm 88.1mm*442mm
Dimensions
* * * *
(H*W*D)
220mm 220mm 220mm 220mm
 Function and Parameters 5916E 5928E 5928E-FI 5952E
Maximum
4.8kg 4.8kg 4.8kg 10kg
Physical Weight
DC power
Parameters -48V -48V -48V -48V
supply
AC power 100V~240V, 100V~240V, 100V~240V, 100V~240V,
supply 50Hz~60Hz 50Hz~60Hz 50Hz~60Hz 50Hz~60Hz
Maximum
power 68W 76W 64W 122W
consumption
Typical power
36W 42W 49W 63W
consumption
Power
redundancy Two independent and swappable power supply modules
pattern
Heat
dissipation Fan cooling Fan cooling Fan cooling Fan cooling
pattern
Heat
190 BTU/h 213 BTU/h 180 BTU/h 341 BTU/h
dissipation
Temperature,
Working temperature:-5oC~+50oC ,humidity:10%~90%
humidity
Working
<3000 meters
altitude
MTBF/MTTR > 200000 hours/ < 30 minutes