H3C Leads the Way in China’s 200G/400G Switch Market

H3C ranked first in China’s 200G/400G switch market with a share of 48.4 percent during the fourth quarter of 2021, said the IDC China Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker, 2021Q4.

H3C Seizes the Initiative to Explore 400G Switch Market and Is Now a Pacesetter

H3C’s success in maintaining a leading position in the market can be attributed to its forward-looking deployments and keen insights into the industry. In 2016, H3C already started the research and development (R&D) of 400G core switches, which gave it a head start over competitors in the field.

So far, H3C has launched a full range of 400G data center switches, among which the S12500 series is the best known series of its data center products. H3C S12500R Data Center Switch provides 48-port 400G line card per slot and has advanced network features such as SRv6 and FlexE. Equipped with the latest Comware V9 network operation system, it can support flexible deployment of third-party customized applications.

The expansion of data centers has made the scalability of network architecture an important requirement of data center, which led to the emergence of box switches. Compared with chassis switches with the same performance, box switches occupy smaller space, consume less power, and feature faster deployment and simpler operation and maintenance (O&M). H3C S9800 series, a flagship box switch series, provide LAN/SAN converged forwarding capability and 128*100G and 64*400G ports with ultra-high forwarding performance, which can be applied to 25G/100G model and 100G/400G model, respectively.

Equipped with lossless Ethernet technology, S9800 can greatly improve network throughput efficiency and realize Ethernet transmission without packet loss in scenarios such as RDMA and full-flash storage.

H3C Endeavors to Provide Customers with Both Solutions and Products to Achieve Synergy Effects

In addition to high-standard products, H3C is also able to provide turnkey solutions for data center construction. H3C Application-Driven Data Center (AD-DC) solution can build a powerful intelligent connection base for the network of data center by combining an intelligent system of management, control and analysis capabilities with 400G switches.

H3C’s SeerFabric intelligent lossless network solution based on the AI-based cloud-edge synergy architecture has optimized the industry’s AI ECN algorithm, and employed the AI Inside capability of H3C’s data center switches, ensuring the accurate forwarding and the certainty of Quality of Service. Meanwhile, through refined intelligent O&M, the solution enables the visualized service experience of the RoCE network, and helps data center network achieve large bandwidth, low latency, and zero packet loss.

H3C Initiates R&D of 800G Network, Facilitating Green Data Center Construction

H3C is also a frontrunner in the R&D of next-generation network technologies. As IDC predicted, the rapid growth in the number of data centers before 2025 will be attributed entirely to 400G and 800G networks. At the same time, as China aims to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, future data centers will move toward a green development path featured by efficient, low-carbon, intensive and circular development.

H3C has actively promoted green and energy-saving designs for switches. It has started the R&D of 800G switches, and applied to 800G high-speed transmission scenarios advanced silicon photonics technology, an important technology for building green and low-carbon networks which can greatly reduce equipment power consumption and improve energy utilization. Although silicon photonics technology is yet to be promoted, H3C has the capability to conduct research into optical module technology and has successfully developed 800G optical module samples. In the future, it will continue to accumulate technological strength for green, low-carbon, fast and ubiquitous digital information infrastructure building.

H3C will further leverage its Cloud & AI Native strategy, push forward with technological innovation, and make thorough deployments in the entire industrial chain so as to consolidate the digital base for the high-quality development of various industries.