Huawei OptiX OSN 580
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| Model: | Huawei OptiX OSN 580 – Huawei OptiX OSN 580 |
| Detail: | Huawei OptiX OSN 580, supports various service networking topologies in the time division multiplexing (TDM) and packet domains, applicable to a wide range of scenarios |
Huawei OptiX OSN 580 is a Huawei OSN 580 system, supplied as a configured node rather than as individual cards. Buying at this level means the shelf, its control and cross-connect, its power arrangement and a defined set of interfaces arrive as one item.
Huawei’s own description of the platform is worth reading in full on the specification tab, but the short version is that this is positioned as a transport platform for the role its documentation describes. Matching the platform to the traffic you actually have matters more than the headline capacity, because a packet platform asked to carry a lot of TDM, or the reverse, works but works awkwardly.
This is SDH-generation equipment, and SDH is a legacy transport technology. The industry moved to packet and to OTN years ago, and the OSN 580 is not a platform anyone is designing a new network around in 2026.
That is not the same as saying it is useless. A great deal of SDH is still in service carrying E1 and STM-n circuits that work perfectly well, in utilities, rail, broadcast, defence and government networks where the circuits outlive the fashion in transport technology. If that is what you are maintaining, this keeps it running. If you are being offered SDH for something new, push back.
What to settle before ordering a complete system. The power feed available at the site and whether there is battery behind it; whether the configuration is protected; the interfaces the traffic actually needs now and in a few years; and the licences, because on Huawei transmission platforms capacity and ports are frequently licensed separately from the hardware that provides them. A node physically capable of a rate it is not licensed for looks like a fault and is not one. Tell us the site, the traffic and the availability you have promised and we will configure it properly, including the licences and the installation materials that are easy to leave off a quote.
Green Code Technologies supplies Huawei transmission hardware, including line and tributary boards, cross-connect and control cards, optics and the shelves they go in. We are a supplier of Huawei alongside HPE, Dell, Cisco, Samsung and Netgear, and we would rather confirm a part against Huawei’s own documentation than sell you the wrong one, which on OSN 580 equipment is worth doing. Send us the platform, the subrack and the software release and we will come back with a straight answer.
Huawei OptiX OSN 580 Specification | ||
| Dimensions | 221 mm (H) x 442 mm (W) x 224 mm (D) | |
| Installation method | In a cabinet (including ETSI, 19-inch and 23-inch cabinets), in an outdoor cabinet | |
| Switch capacity | Packet: 560 Gbit/s, TDM: 280 Gbit/s (higher order) Packet: 280 Gbit/s, TDM: 280 Gbit/s (higher order) | |
| Service slots | 15 slots | |
| Supported interfaces | OTN interface | OTU-2, OTU-3 |
| Ethernet interface | FE/GE/10GE/40GE | |
| SDH interface | STM-1/4/16/64 | |
| PDH interface | E1/E3; T1/T3 | |
| PCM interface | FXS/FXO, 2/4 wire audio and E&M X.21/V.35/V.11/V.24/V.28, RS232/RS422, RS449/RS423A/RS422A, RS530/RS530A, RS485, G.703 64 kbit/s bidirectional; IEEE C37.94 | |
| WDM interface | 40 DWDM wavelengths, compliant with ITU-T G.694.1 8 CWDM wavelengths, compliant with ITU-T G.694.2 | |
| Networking Mode | Supports pure packet, hybrid (packet + SDH), or SDH networking Supports WDM networking | |
| Power Supply | -48 V DC/-60 V DC 220 V AC/110 V AC | |
| Operation Environment | Temperature
| Long term: -5ºC ~ 50ºC Short term: -10ºC ~ 55ºC |
| Relative Humidity | Long term: 5% ~ 85% Short term: 5% ~ 95% | |
| Ethernet and MPLS-TP features | E-Line, E-LAN, and QinQ MPLS-TP based VPWS and VPLS MS-PW ETH PWE3 IGMP Snooping v2 | |
| PCM features
| Supports 64K cross connect Voice or data conference, Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint, Multipoint-to-Multipoint FXO/FXS mode can be set by software E&M signaling can be set by software (types I, II, III, IV, V and British Telecom SSDC5) | |
| QoS
| Hierarchical QoS scheduling and traffic shaping DiffServ mode based on traffic classification Simple traffic classification, complex traffic classification, per-hop behavior (PHB), and ACL Committed access rate (CAR) PQ scheduling priority, weighted round robin (WRR), and PQ+WRR queuing Tail drop and weighted random early detection (WRED) Shaping based on port scheduling priority | |
| OAM
| MPLS-TP OAM
| CC, LB, LT AIS, RDI LM, DM LCK, TST CSF
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| Ethernet OAM | ETH-CC, ETH-loopback, ETH-link trace, remote loopback, remote fault detection, RMON (RFC 2819) | |
| Protection | Equipment-level protection | 1+1 backup for cross-connect, system control, clock processing board, and power unit |
| MPLS-TP-based service protection | LSP/PW linear protection, ring protection Anti-multiple failure protection based on MS-PW LAG, MC-LAG, Dual-homing protection, LPT, ERPS | |
| SDH-/PDH-based service protection | Linear MSP and MSP ring SNCP E1 1+1 SNCP E1/T1 1+1 tributary protection switch (TPS) | |
| Synchronization | Supports G.813, Synchronous Ethernet, and IEEE 1588v2 synchronization Adaptive clock recovery (ACR) Two external clock inputs/outputs (2 MHz or 2 Mbit/s) Two external time signals inputs/outputs (1pps+TOD) | |
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