Introduction for Huawei ME60 Cards

Huawei ME60 is a range of multiple-service control gateways, also a BRAS ( Broadband Remote Access Server).  It serves as a platform for unified user access and management, and most suitable for industries such as broadcasting, television, and education. Based on a 2T platform, the series boasts the industry’s largest-capacity routing line card (480G) plus a large-capacity NAT service line card (160G), enabling smooth evolution from IPv4 to IPv6.

ME60 series router includes ME60-X3, X8, X8A, X16 and X16A, with different slots qty, capacity and performance. Also it has  various cards such as control and switching cards SRU SFU, mother card BUSF, service cards BP240 BP100, and NAT cards VSUF160, SP160 etc. This article will briefly introduce the naming rules and specifications comparison of ME60 mainstream cards.

ME60 cards introduction

1, SRU/MPU, main control board of ME60, SRU controls and manages the system and exchanges data.; ME60 provides two SRUs and SRUs work in 1:1 backup mode

2, SFU, switching unit of ME60

3, BSU: broadband service unit

• BSUF: broadband service unit flexible

BSUF mother card has no service port, it provides slots for its daughter cards (like BP240 BP100) to realize GE 10GE 100G data service, most BSUF cards have two slots.

• BSUI: broadband service unit integrated

Same size as BSUF card, but itself has GE 10GE or 100G service port on the front panel, ports are fixed, less flexible than mother card+ daughter card.

4, MSU: Multi service unit

It also includes flexible card MSUF and integrated card MSUI

Note: difference between BSU and MSU

BSU card is for access at user side, support user access

MSU card is for network side, does not support user access.

5, VSUF: Versatile service unit, provides NAT, NAT444/DS-Lite and NAT64.

VSUF is a mother card, it supports daughter cards SP80 or SP160

6, VSUI-20-A, IPSec service card, bidirectional 20G capacity

7, SPUC, universal service processing unit C, provides centralized GRE, Netstream, multicast VPN.

ME60 cards naming rules

1, B/MSU X -100 – E

BSU	Broadband service unit
MSU	Multi service unit
X	F: Flexible I: Integrated
100	100G switching capacity
E	Enhanced, means card supports HQos/DAA

2, BP100-E

BP100	Flexible daughter card of 100G Capacity mother card
E	Enhanced, means card supports HQos/DAA

3, VSUF-80/160

VSUF	Versatile service unit
80	MAX supports 80G capacity
160	MAX supports 160G capacity

4, 240G Flexible broadband service card

Specification	BSUF-240	MSUF-240
Port type	10GE 100GE	10GE 100GE
BRAS supported	Yes	No
Subscriber supported	Max 64K	–
DAA	Max 32K subscriber	–
Qos queue	512K, 1M (full -E daughter card configured)	–
Application	Network and user side	Network side

5, 100G series cards

Specification	BSUF-100	MSUF-100	BSUI-100	BSUI-100-E	MSUI-100
Port type	GE 10FE 100GE	GE 10FE 100GE	10GE	10GE	10GE
BRAS supported	yes	no	yes	yes	no
Subscriber supported	MAX 64K	–	MAX 64K	MAX 64K	–
DDA	64K(BP100-E) 32K(BP100)	–	32K	64k	–
Qos queue	768K(BP100-E) 256K(BP100)	–	256K	768k	–
Application	Network and user side	Network side	Network and user side	Network and user side	Network side

6, 50G series flexible mother-card

Specification	BSUF-51	MSUF-51
Port type	GE 10GE	GE 10GE
BRAS supported	Yes	No
Subscriber supported	Max 32K	–
DAA	Max 32K	–
Qos queue	768K (BP51-E) 256K(BP51)	–
Application	Network and user side	Network side

7, 50G series integrated card

Specification	BSUI-51	BSUI-51-E	MSUI-51
Port type	GE 10GE	GE 10GE	10GE
BRAS supported	yes	yes	no
Subscriber supported	MAX 32K	MAX 32K	–
DDA	32K	32k	–
Qos queue	256K	768K	–
Application	Network and user side	Network and user side	user side

ME60 is also related with some license, such as NAT card VSUF, is has NAT session license and capacity license. You can choose license according to your actual network, if you have any questions about ME60 cards or license or configuration, you can contact supports@thunder-link.com.