Which benefits do Huawei CloudEngine S16700 series switches provide?
Huawei's CloudEngine S16700 flagship core switches are marketed with three headline benefits that map to A, B, and C: ultra-high reliability (redundant/dual-input power so the system keeps running if one input fails), an all-new backplane-free orthogonal Clos architecture that raises switching capacity, and ultra-large per-slot capacity (3.6 Tbps per slot, scalable toward 14.4 Tbps). Option D, 'innovative optical-electrical PoE' with 600 m/60 W PoE++, is a feature of the S8700 series, not the S16700, so it is the distractor. The S16700 is a core switch, not an access/PoE platform.
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