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All productsHuawei 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.