HPE JG363B Product Data Sheet

HPE FlexNetwork
HSR6800 Router Series

Data sheet

Product overview

The HPE FlexNetwork HSR6800 Router
Series is a portfolio of high-performance WAN
services routers, ideal for large-scale data
center and campus WAN networks.

These routers are built with a multi-core
distributed processing architecture that
scales up to 420 Mpps forwarding and up to
2 Tbps switch capacity. They deliver robust
routing (MPLS, IPv4, IPv6, dynamic routing,
nested QoS), security (stateful firewall,
IPSec/Dynamic VPN, DoS protection,
NAT), full Layer 2 switching, traic analysis
capabilities, and high-density 10GbE (and
40/100GbE-ready) WAN interface options,
all integrated in a single powerful routing
platform.

In addition, the HSR6800 Router Series are
the first service aggregation routers in the
industry to support system virtualization by
taking advantage of HPE innovative Intelligent
Resilient Framework (IRF) technology.

Key features

• High-performance services up to 420 Mpps
forwarding and 2 Tbps switching capacity.

• Multi-core, distributed processing
architecture.

• Comprehensive routing, switching, and
security.

• High-density WAN connections.

• Carrier-class resiliency with HPE Intelligent
Resilient Framework (IRF) technology.

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Features and benefits

Connectivity

• Multiple WAN interfaces
Support Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/10GbE
ports, OC3~OC48 POS/CPOS, and ATM ports.

• Flexible port selection
Provides a combination of fiber/copper
interface modules, 100/1000BASE-X
auto-speed selection, and 10/100/
1000BASE-T auto-speed detection plus
auto duplex and MDI/MDI-X; is speed
adaptable between 155 M POS/622 M
POS/Gigabit Ethernet.

• Loopback
Supports internal loopback testing for
maintenance purposes and an increase in
availability.

Performance

• High-performance platform
Provides up to 420 Mpps in forwarding and
up to 2 Tbps switching capacity.

• Variety of high performance FIP modules
Up to 30 Mpps with FIP-600 Up to 14 Gbps
HW Encryption with FIP-300 & FIP-310.

• Variety of high performance SAP
Modules
Flexibility with 10GbE & 1GbE SAP Module
options.

Resiliency and high availability

• HPE Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)
technology

HPE Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)
technology is HPE’s innovative technology that
connects multiple routers through physical
IRF ports to achieve system virtualization.
All routers appears as one node on the
network to allow for simplified configuration,
while achieving high resiliency and increased
system expandability at lower cost.

• Separate data and control planes
Provide greater flexibility and enable
continual services.

• Hot-swappable modules
Facilitates the replacement of hardware
interface modules without impacting the
traic flow through the system.

• Optional redundant power supply
Provides uninterrupted power; allows
hot-swapping of one of the two supplies
when installed.

• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
(VRRP)
Allows groups of two routers to dynamically
back each other up to create highly available
routed environments.

• Graceful restart
Supports graceful restart for OSPF, IS-IS,
BGP, LDP, and RSVP; the network remains
stable during the active-standby switchover;
after the switchover, the device quickly
learns the network routes by communicating
with adjacent routers; forwarding remains
uninterrupted during the switchover to
achieve nonstop forwarding (NSF).

• Hitless software upgrades
Allow patches to be installed without
restarting the device, increasing network
uptime and simplifying maintenance.

• IP Fast Reroute Framework (FRR)
Nodes are configured with backup ports
and routes; local implementation requires no
cooperation of adjacent devices, simplifying
the deployment; solves the traditional
convergence faults in IP forwarding; achieves
restoration within 50 ms, with the restoration
time independent of the number of routes
and fast link switchovers without route
convergence.

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Product architecture

• Distributed processing
Two kinds of engines are hardware-separated:
main controller engine (routing engine) and
service engines (Flexible Interface Platform
[FIP] and Service Aggregation Platform
[SAP]); the main controller engine is used for
route computing and system management,
and service engines are used for processing
services.

• HPE Apollo Processor
HPE in-house designed service/forwarding
processor supporting powerful parallel
processing, encryption and comprehensive
HQoS functionalities.

Layer 3 routing

• Static IPv4 routing
Provides simple manually configured IPv4
routing.

• Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Uses a distance vector algorithm with UDP
packets for route determination; supports
RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing; includes loop
protection.

• Open shortest path first (OSPF)
Delivers faster convergence; uses this
link-state routing Interior Gateway Protocol
(IGP), which supports ECMP, NSSA, and
MD5 authentication for increased security
and graceful restart for faster failure
recovery.

• Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Delivers an implementation of the Exterior
Gateway Protocol (EGP) utilizing path
vectors; uses TCP for enhanced reliability
for the route discovery process; reduces
bandwidth consumption by advertising only
incremental updates; supports extensive
policies for increased flexibility; scales to
very large networks.

• Intermediate system to intermediate
system (IS-IS)
Uses a path vector Interior Gateway
Protocol (IGP), which is defined by the ISO
organization for IS-IS routing and extended
by IETF RFC 1195 to operate in both TCP/
IP and the OSI reference model (Integrated
IS-IS).

• Static IPv6 routing
Provides simple manually configured IPv6
routing.

• Dual IP stack
Maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6
to ease the transition from an IPv4-only
network to an IPv6-only network design.

• Routing Information Protocol next
generation (RIPng)
Extends RIPv2 to support IPv6 addressing.

• OSPFv3
Provides OSPF support for IPv6.

• BGP+
Extends BGP-4 to support Multiprotocol
BGP (MBGP), including support for IPv6
addressing.

• IS-IS for IPv6
Extends IS-IS to support IPv6 addressing.

• IPv6 tunneling
Allows IPv6 packets to traverse IPv4-only
networks by encapsulating the IPv6 packet
into a standard IPv4 packet; supports
manually configured, 6 to 4, and Intra-Site
Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol
(ISATAP) tunnels; is an important element
for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6.

• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Uses BGP to advertise routes across Label
Switched Paths (LSPs), but uses simple
labels to forward packets from any Layer 2 or
Layer 3 protocol, which reduces complexity
and increases performance; supports graceful
restart for reduced failure impact; supports
LSP tunneling and multilevel stacks.

• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Layer 3 VPN
Allows Layer 3 VPNs across a provider
network; uses MP-BGP to establish private
routes for increased security; supports RFC
2547bis multiple autonomous system VPNs
for added flexibility.

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• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Layer 2 VPN

Establishes simple Layer 2 point-to-point
VPNs across a provider network using only
MPLS Label Distribution Protocol (LDP);
requires no routing and therefore decreases
complexity, increases performance, and
allows VPNs of non-routable protocols;
uses no routing information for increased
security; supports Circuit Cross Connect
(CCC), Static Virtual Circuits (SVCs), Martini
draft, and Kompella-draft technologies.

• Policy routing
Allows custom filters for increased
performance and security; supports ACLs,
IP prefix, AS paths, community lists, and
aggregate policies.

• Multicast VPN
Supports Multicast Domain (MD) multicast
VPN, which can be distributed on separate
service cards, providing high performance
and flexible configuration.

• Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
Establishes point-to-multipoint Layer 2
VPNs across a provider network.

• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
Enables link connectivity monitoring and
reduces network convergence time for RIP,
OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, VRRP, MPLS, and IRF.

• IGMPv1, v2, and v3
Allow individual hosts to be registered on a
particular VLAN.

• PIM-SSM, PIM-DM, and PIM-SM (for IPv4
and IPv6)
Support IP Multicast address management
and inhibition of DoS attacks.

• Equal/Unequal Cost Multipath (ECMP/
UCMP)
Enables multiple equal-cost and unequal-cost
links in a routing environment to increase link
redundancy and scale bandwidth.

• OSPFv3 MCE
Multi-VPN-Instance CE (MCE) binds
dierent VPNs to dierent interfaces on one
single CE; the OSPFv3 MCE feature creates
and maintains separate OSPFv3 routing
tables for each IPv6 VPN to isolate VPN
services in the device.

Layer 3 services

• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Determines the MAC address of another
IP host in the same subnet; supports static
ARPs; gratuitous ARP allows detection of
duplicate IP addresses; proxy ARP allows
normal ARP operation between subnets or
when subnets are separated by a Layer 2
network.

• User Datagram Protocol (UDP) helper
Redirects UDP broadcasts to specific IP
subnets to prevent server spoofing.

• Domain Name System (DNS)
Provides a distributed database that
translates domain names and IP addresses,
which simplifies network design; supports
client and server.

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP)
Simplifies the management of large IP
networks.

Security

• Auto Discover VPN (ADVPN)
Collects, maintains, and distributes dynamic
public addresses through the VPN Address
Management (VAM) protocol, making VPN
establishment available between enterprise
branches that use dynamic addresses
to access the public network; compared
to traditional VPN technologies, ADVPN
technology is more flexible and has richer
features, such as NAT traversal of ADVPN
packets, AAA identity authentication, IPSec
protection of data packets, and multiple
VPN domains.

• Group Domain Virtual Private Network
(GDVPN)
A tunnel-less VPN technology that
allows for native end-to-end security for
a full meshed network; suitable for an
enterprise running encryption over a private
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)/
IP-based core network, as well as to encrypt
multicast traic.