Huawei's NetEngine5000E cluster router (hereinafter referred to as NE5000E) is a large-capacity and high-performance router designed according to the requirements of carrier-level reliability.The operating system adopts the Versatile Routing Platform (VRP), a Versatile Routing Platform with strong exchange capacity, high port density and high reliability. It is mainly positioned at the super core node of IP backbone network, the core node of man, the export node of large IDC (Internet Data Center) and the core of large enterprise network.

The multi-box cluster router is mainly positioned at the super core node of the backbone network and supports three-layer routing and MPLS forwarding.Among them, the central switching box is the switching module and routing engine module of level 2 in the three-level switching system, and the wire-card box is the switching module and forwarding module of level 1 and level 3.