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Huawei CloudEngine Switches

byHuawei
in
4.8
2025
Market Presence: Data Center and Cloud Networking (Transitioning to Data Center Switching), Data Center Switching

Overview

Product Information on Huawei CloudEngine Switches

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Huawei CloudEngine Switches?

Huawei CloudEngine Switches is a software designed to provide high-performance data center and campus network switching solutions. It offers features such as high-density port configurations, low latency, and advanced virtualization capabilities to support efficient data traffic management. The software enables automation and intelligent operations through programmable interfaces and network management tools, supporting multiple networking protocols for compatibility across environments. It aims to address challenges in network scalability, reliability, and security by providing centralized control, traffic optimization, and security policy enforcement for enterprise and carrier networks. The software helps organizations manage growing network demands by delivering consistent connectivity and operational efficiency across complex IT infrastructures.

Huawei CloudEngine Switches Pricing

Huawei CloudEngine Switches software utilizes a pricing model that is typically based on hardware configuration, switch model, network capacity, and support level. Pricing may vary according to options selected for performance tiers and warranty services. Licensing fees and subscriptions for management software and additional features can be applied separately depending on deployment requirements.

Overall experience with Huawei CloudEngine Switches

IT Manager
30B + USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Huawei CE16800-X8 Switches Enhance Network Efficiency at Our Bank”

5.0
Aug 14, 2025
The general computing network and AI Big Model Intelligent Computing Network of our Bank in China's data center both use Huawei's Cloud Engine series switches. The NoF+ storage network uses CE16800-X8 to build a two-level network,with HCS managing the NoF+ storage network to achieve automated network deployment,and iMaster NCE for visual operation and maintenance of the storage network. The AI large model network uses the CE 16800-X8 400GE high-density switch, which supports 36 400GE ports in a single slot and can forward at line speed. The CE16800-X8 is used to build a two-level network, carrying an integrated NPU kilocard cluster server for training and inference. The Huawei NSLB AI algorithm has improved network throughput and training efficiency by over 10%. The general computing network of the data center has deployed Huawei's data center network digital map function. The network view and application view achieve network topology visualization and fast troubleshooting. Artificial intelligence technology empowers network digital maps to detect,locate,and repair problems within 1,5 and 10 minutes. The network digital map improves the overall stability of the network through the sub-health detection function of the optical transceiver.
Senior Network engineer
50M - 250M USD, Finance (non-banking)
CRITICAL

“HUAWEI SWITCHES CLOUDENGINE 7800 SERIES”

3.0
Apr 23, 2019
The CloudEngine 7800 series switches are GE 40 switches designed for Data Center and high-end campus area networks. They offer high performance, high port density and low latency.offers 32 ports of 40 GE in a single 1U device that provides exceptional throughput and low latency as a core or aggregation switch for Data Centers.

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2025
For Market:
Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure (Transitioning to Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN)

About Company

Company Description

Updated 26th April 2024

Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company's main focus is to enrich human progress through innovative technologies. Huawei aims to ensure that connectivity is a basic need, emphasizing the importance of access to ICT and the benefits it can provide to a wide audience. The firm specializes in creating customer-focused innovations and establishing strong partnerships, developing capabilities across carrier networks, enterprise, consumers, and cloud computing sections. With operations in over 170 countries, Huawei has a significant global presence. The company's objective is to digitally connect every person, home, and organization in order to achieve a comprehensive connected, intelligent world. Through this, Huawei works to narrow the digital gap, facilitating access to broadband services.

Company Details

Updated 26th April 2024
Company type
Private
Year Founded
1987
Head office location
Shenzhen, China
Number of employees
10001+
Website
https://www.huawei.com/en/

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Huawei CloudEngine Switches Likes & Dislikes

Like

CE 16800 series switches support cell forwarding architecture. A singel CE16800-X8 chassis offers up to 288*400GE interface. The CE16800-x8 device supports the NSLB algorithm, which improves the performance of the computing cluster by more than 10%.

Like

Below are some points due to this reason i love this products. 1-The CE7800 switches support Border Gateway Protocol - Ethernet VPN (BGP-EVPN), which can be run as a VXLAN control plane to simplify VXLAN configuration in and between Data Centers. 2-Each GE 40 port can be used as multiple 10 GE ports, allowing for flexible networking

Like

I will list three main reasons that i choose Huawei CloudEngine Switches: 1. Huawei CloudEngine Switches provide plenty of models for us to choose. From the access side,they have CE6881/CE6855/CE6885. Besides, we can choose CE16800 or CE9800 or CE8800 for core switches according to our server scale. This makes our choice more flexible. 2. Huawei CloudEngine Switches can support iStack or M-Lag to choose.Their feature of M-Lag can help us with hitless upgrade which has no influence of our service. 3. Huawei CloudEngine Switches supply plenty of maintenance features, such as packet event which can help us locate the packet drop reasons quickly.

Dislike

Our bank collaborates with Huawei to innovate and deploy network intelligent operation and maintenance based on Netmaster network intelligent agents. We hope the Netmaster can not only focus on network intelligent operation and maintenance,but also extend to intelligent operation and maintenance in other aspects such as business applications.

Dislike

We are using ACL on our switch but its not working properly, As we are not able to see the traffic counters for the access-list and some of our traffic is not getting the passthrough from ACL even we had allowed the same in ACL.

Dislike

1. Their switches are a bit expensive compared to other vendors though their performance are much better. If their prices can cut a bit, we will be pleasure. 2. Their whole solutions which contain network management NCE-Fabric can only manage Huawei CloudEngine Switches and firewall for free. Our network has the third-party vendor. If we want these equipment can be managed, it won't be free.

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Huawei CloudEngine Switches Reviews and Ratings

4.8

(215 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
80%
4 Star
19%
3 Star
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2 Star
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1 Star
0%
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  • IT Manager
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Huawei CE16800-X8 Switches Enhance Network Efficiency at Our Bank

    5.0
    Aug 13, 2025
    The general computing network and AI Big Model Intelligent Computing Network of our Bank in China's data center both use Huawei's Cloud Engine series switches. The NoF+ storage network uses CE16800-X8 to build a two-level network,with HCS managing the NoF+ storage network to achieve automated network deployment,and iMaster NCE for visual operation and maintenance of the storage network. The AI large model network uses the CE 16800-X8 400GE high-density switch, which supports 36 400GE ports in a single slot and can forward at line speed. The CE16800-X8 is used to build a two-level network, carrying an integrated NPU kilocard cluster server for training and inference. The Huawei NSLB AI algorithm has improved network throughput and training efficiency by over 10%. The general computing network of the data center has deployed Huawei's data center network digital map function. The network view and application view achieve network topology visualization and fast troubleshooting. Artificial intelligence technology empowers network digital maps to detect,locate,and repair problems within 1,5 and 10 minutes. The network digital map improves the overall stability of the network through the sub-health detection function of the optical transceiver.
  • IT Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Huawei CloudEngine Switches Offer Stability and Flexibility in Data Centers

    5.0
    Aug 22, 2025
    Huawei CloudEngine Switches have high quality. Since we bought this products, we haven't met any problem in our data center network.Their equipments have been worked stablely for years. Also their switches help us launch our business quickly.
  • Manager Of It Services
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Wide Model Selection And AI Management Face Challenges With Geopolitical Barriers

    4.0
    Jan 16, 2026
    For a datacenter switching it has all the capabilities what a day-to-day IT enterprise as well as telco systems requires. With its experience in Telco for long has helped it in a way to transfer that stability and Technology for enterprise systems as well with high performance, cloud native and cost-effective switches. The only thing putting it behind as of now is compliance restrictions in certain region else product wise it has got what the peers have at better cost.
  • IT MANAGER
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Huawei CE16800 Core Switch Enables Scalable and Reliable AI Data Centers

    5.0
    Aug 22, 2025
    Huawei CE16800 is a datacenter core switch for AI scenarios, a new hardware capability system.provide the high-density 100GE/200GE/400GE switch port,which can smoothly upgrade to 800GE ,provide stable,reliable and high performance service,build an intelligent,easy,and seecure platform to customers.
  • IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Advanced Hardware and Fast Switchover Enhance Reliability of CE 9800 Switches

    5.0
    Aug 22, 2025
    The CE 9800 series is a new generation of high-performance,high-density,adn flexible plug-in Ethernet switches launched by Huawei for datacenters. adopts advanced hardware architecture design, offering 400GE/100GE/40GE interface adn support a wide range of datacenter features.buld resilient ,virtualized,and high-quality cloud datacenter.
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