Cisco CRS-X Modular Services Card Data Sheet
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The Cisco® CRS-X Carrier Routing System provides outstanding economical scale, IP and optical network convergence, and a proven architecture that’s delivered 10 times the capacity over 10 years. The Cisco CRS-X Modular Service Card (MSC) is powered by advanced application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), a chipset architecture based on multidimensional engineering, and Cisco IOS® XR Software, a unique distributed operating system.
Packet-based data communications are being replaced by video and rich media transported on the IP Next-Generation Internet and his new traffic strains the architectural foundations of both public and private networks serving businesses and consumers. As part of the medianet, a media-aware Cisco Next Generation Internet, the Cisco CRS-X delivers highly reliable operations and scales easily from single-chassis form factors to a massive multichassis system. Its design offers industry-leading efficiency in power consumption, cooling, and rack-space resources, while providing intelligent service-rich bandwidth capacity. The Cisco CRS-X, which supports 400-Gbps line rates, is backward and forward compatible with the Cisco CRS-1 and the Cisco CRS-3, helping to protect existing and future investments.
The Cisco CRS-X Modular Services Card (Figure 1) offers the following advanced features and benefits:
● 400-Gbps line-rate throughput per slot, increasing the Cisco CRS capacity to 12.8 Tbps in a single chassis
● Advanced forwarding ASICs to support 100-Gbps single-flow traffic processing with optimized power consumption
● Superior investment protection that maintains the existing Cisco CRS architecture, making it compatible with existing Cisco CRS-1 and Cisco CRS-3 line cards and physical layer interface modules (PLIMs)
● Transparent and In-service migration from an existing Cisco CRS-1 or Cisco CRS-3
● Space, cost, and power savings with 100-Gbps Cisco CPAK™ optics
● Flexibility through Cisco AnyPort Technology, which introduces 100-Gbps to 40-Gbps and 40-Gbps to 10‑Gbps breakout options
The Cisco CRS-X MSC provides a distributed forwarding-engine capability for the Cisco CRS Family. Optimized for high-speed edge applications, it provides massive VLAN scale and wire-rate hierarchical quality of service (QoS). It is responsible for data-plane processing tasks, for all the network traffic that flows through it. The card performs all baseline packet routing operations, including Layer 3 forwarding, QoS classification, policing and shaping, security access control lists (ACLs), VPNs, load balancing, and Cisco NetFlow. Important performance features include hardware-assisted policing and multicast packet replication that reduces jitter and latency.
This Cisco CRS-X line card is supported across the Cisco CRS 8-slot, 16-slot, back-to-back, and multichassis form factors and is compatible with both Cisco CRS enhanced and traditional chassis-based systems. The line card has two 200-Gbps forwarding ASICs and can operate in either 200-Gbps or 400-Gbps mode. While operating in 400-Gbps mode in a CRS enhanced chassis-based system, both ASICs are functional, and the line card delivers full 400-Gbps line-rate throughput. In 200-Gbps mode, one of the two forwarding ASICs shuts down to conserve power.
The Cisco CRS-X MSC offers many advantages:
● Transparent operation with previous-generation Cisco CRS-1 and CRS-3 line cards on the same chassis with Cisco CRS-X fabric
● Increased capacity, by scaling the Cisco CRS per-slot forwarding capacity 10 times, from 40 Gbps to 400 Gbps
● Flexible pairing with a variety of interface modules, providing deployment flexibility
● Single-flow Layer 3 traffic processing at 100 Gbps in each direction
● Enhanced onboard multicore CPU for accelerated software processing
● Optimized for high-speed edge applications with enhanced QoS
● Outstanding interface and VLAN scalability
● Wire-rate hierarchical QoS
● Layer 3 forwarding engine with industry-leading, wire-rate performance
● Additional services, such as class-of-service (CoS) processing, multicast, traffic engineering, and statistics gathering, performed at line rate
● Support for up to 64,000 queues and 12,000 interfaces in hardware
● Built-in hardware acceleration for critical network control traffic
● Accurate hardware-assisted time-stamping support for service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring
● Support for several forwarding protocols, including IPv4, IPv6, and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
● Enhanced performance with hardware-based prefix lookup for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS
● Industry-leading environmental efficiency with a low power consumption and weight
Product Specifications
Table 1 provides specifications for the Cisco CRS-X Modular Services Card.
Table 1. Product Specifications
| Feature |
Description |
| Chassis compatibility |
● Cisco CRS 8-slot, 16-slot, and multichassis systems with Cisco CRS-X fabric cards
● Legacy Cisco CRS line-card chassis (200-Gbps mode)
● Enhanced Cisco CRS line-card chassis (400-Gbps mode)
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| Software compatibility |
Cisco IOS XR Software Release 5.1.1 or later |
| Interface module compatibility |
400-Gbps physical interface modules, including Cisco part numbers 4x100GE-OTN and 40x10GE-WLO |
| Features and protocols |
IP features:
● IPv6 unicast services
● IP multicast priority propagation
● Multicast reverse path Forwarding (RPF)
● Traffic engineering, point-to-multipoint traffic engineering (P2MP)
● L3VPNs
● L2VPNs based on Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) infrastructure
● Policy-based traffic engineering selection (PBTS)
● MPLS OAM
● Unicast reverse path forwarding (uRPF)
● QoS-based policy propagation through Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
● Control packet policing (CPP)
Error detection and fast convergence features:
● Bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD)
● Ethernet OAM (E-OAM), SLA, 802.1ag, 802.3ah, and Y.1731
Accounting:
● Cisco NetFlow
● BGP policy accounting
● Mac accounting
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| Memory |
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| Performance |
● 400-Gbps line-rate throughput
● Maximum number of MSC per chassis: 8-slot chassis (8), 16-slot chassis (16)
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| Reliability and availability |
● Line-card online insertion and removal (OIR) support without affecting system
● In-service software patching
● Out of resource management
● Process re-start
● IP fast reroute (FRR)
● MPLS fast reroute (FRR)
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| Network management |
● Cisco IOS XR Software command-line interface (CLI)
● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
● Extensible Markup Language (XML) interface
● Craft Works Interface (CWI)
● Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA)
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| Physical dimensions |
● Occupies one-half slot on a Cisco CRS chassis
● Weight: 16.0 lbs (7.26 kg)
● Height: 20.6 in. (52.2 cm)
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| Power |
Expected value less than 700 watts in 400-Gbps mode; and less than 450W in 200-Gbps mode |
| Environmental conditions |
● Storage temperature: -40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)
● Operating temperature:
◦ Normal: 41 to 104°F (5 to 40°C)
◦ Short-term: 23 to 122°F (-5 to 50°C)
● Relative humidity:
◦ Normal: 5 to 85%
◦ Short-term: 5 to 90% but not to exceed 0.024 kg water per kg of dry air
Short-term refers to a period of not more than 96 consecutive hours and a total of 360 hours but not more than 15 instances in 1 year. |
Approvals and Compliance
Table 2 gives standards compliance information for the Cisco CRS-X Modular Services Card.
Table 2. Compliance and Agency Approvals
| Feature |
Description |
| Safety standards |
● UL/CSA/IEC/EN 60950-1, 2
nd ed, AM 1
● AS/NZS 60950.1
● IEC/EN 60825 Laser Safety
● FDA - Code of Federal Regulations Laser Safety
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| EMI |
● FCC Class A
● ICES 003 Class A
● AS/NZS CISPR 22 Class A
● CISPR 22 (EN55022) Class A
● VCCI Class A
● IEC/EN 61000-3-2: Power Line Harmonics
● IEC/EN 61000-3-3: Voltage Fluctuations and Flicker
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| Immunity (basic standards) |
● IEC/EN-61000-4-2: Electrostatic Discharge Immunity (8-kV contact, 15-kV air)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-3: Radiated Immunity (10V/m)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-4: Electrical Fast Transient Immunity (2-kV power, 1-kV signal)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Surge AC Port (4-kV CM, 2-kV DM)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Signal Ports (1 kV)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Surge DC Port (1 kV)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-6: Immunity to Conducted Disturbances (10 Vrms)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-8: Power Frequency Magnetic Field Immunity (30A/m)
● IEC/EN-61000-4-11: Voltage Dips, Short Interruptions, and Voltage Variations
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| ETSI and EN |
● EN300 386: Telecommunications Network Equipment (EMC)
EN55022: Information Technology Equipment (Emissions) EN55024: Information Technology Equipment (Immunity)
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EN50082-1/EN-61000-6-1: Generic Immunity Standard
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| Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS) |
This product is designed to meet the following requirements (qualification in progress):
●
SR-3580: NEBS Criteria Levels (Level 3)
● GR-1089-CORE: NEBS EMC and Safety
● GR-63-CORE: NEBS Physical Protection
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Ordering Information
To place an order, contact your local Cisco representative or visit the Cisco Ordering homepage. Use the ordering information in Table 3.
Table 3. Ordering Information
| Product Name |
Part Number |
| Cisco CRS-X Modular Services Card (400G) |
CRS-MSC400G |
| Cisco CRS-X Modular Services Card (200G) |
CRS-MSC200G |
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