Huawei CloudEngine 6870 48-Port 25GE Data Center Switch

The Huawei CloudEngine 6870 is a high-density 25GE leaf switch engineered for large-scale data center fabric deployments. Delivering 48 ports of 25 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, it provides 1.2 Tbps of switching fabric capacity and supports advanced overlay networking through native VXLAN and EVPN protocol stacks, enabling seamless multi-tenant and multi-cloud architectures.

Designed for hyperscale and co-location environments requiring consistent east-west traffic patterns, the CloudEngine 6870 integrates merchant silicon with Huawei's CloudOS operating system for deterministic latency, lossless operation via PFC/ECN, and centralized management integration. Its compact form factor supports high-density rack deployments while maintaining thermal efficiency in demanding data center conditions.

The platform targets fabric leaf roles within three-tier or spine-leaf topologies, particularly in regions experiencing rapid cloud infrastructure buildouts. It qualifies for environments requiring standards-based switching with vendor-neutral interoperability alongside specialized Huawei ecosystem features.

Ideal for

• Hyperscale cloud provider leaf-layer switching for multi-tenant virtual machine and container workloads
• Co-location facility fabric expansion supporting customer rack isolation and micro-segmentation
• High-frequency trading and financial services data center networks requiring sub-microsecond latency
• Content delivery network edge switching with high-density 25GE port count for upstream aggregation
• Kubernetes cluster networking with EVPN overlay for pod-to-pod east-west communication
• Research and academic computing clusters requiring lossless Ethernet for HPC job scheduling

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.