Cisco Network Convergence System

 

 

Cloud Scaling for WAN Aggregation

Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series offers industry-leading density of routed 400 Gigabit Ethernet (400GE) and 100GE ports for scaled-up WAN aggregation To do. The NCS 5500 Series is designed to scale efficiently across enterprise, web, and service provider data centers and WAN and aggregation networks.

 

Product Overview

Cisco Network Convergence System “NCS” The 5500 Modular Chassis series includes the Cisco NCS 5504 Modular Chassis, Cisco NCS 5508 Modular Chassis, and Cisco NCS 5516 Modular Chassis (Figure 1). The Cisco NCS 5504 supports up to four line cards, six switch fabric cards, two routing processors, two system controllers, three fan trays, and four power supplies. The Cisco NCS 5508 supports up to 8 line cards, 6 switch fabric cards, 2 routing processors, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays, and 8 power supplies. The Cisco NCS 5516 supports up to 16 line cards, 6 switch fabric cards, 2 routing processors, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays, and 10 power supplies.

 

The NCS5500 router supports 10, 25, 40, 50, 100, and 400 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Cisco NCS 5504 supports up to 14.4 Tbit/s full duplex, NCS 5508 supports up to 28.8 Tbit/s full duplex, and Cisco NCS 5516 currently supports up to 57.6 Tbit/s full duplex doing. With the introduction of the new NCS 5700 400 GE line card, the forwarding capacity per slot in each modular chassis increases by 2.67x, up to 153.6 Tbps full duplex on the Cisco NCS 5516. The Cisco NCS 5500 chassis consists of the components shown in Figure 2 and described in the following sections. Figure 2 shows the components of the Cisco NCS 5508 chassis. NCS 5504 and NCS 5516 use the same components except for chassis-specific fabric modules and chassis-specific fan trays. Cisco NCS 5516 has 16 line cards and Cisco NCS 5504 has 4 line cards.