Cisco Network Convergence System 6000 Series 60-Port 10Gbps Multiservice Line Card Data Sheet

Cisco® Network Convergence System (NCS) 6000 Series Routers offer exceptional network agility, packet optical convergence, and petabit-per-second system scale. The Cisco NCS 6000 Series also facilitates the buildout of the next-generation core to support elastic capacity at a low TCO and to deliver high-bandwidth mobile, video, and cloud services.

Using the industry-leading Cisco IOS® XR operating system, running in a virtualized environment, the Cisco NCS 6000 Series advances the concept of distributed routing and virtualization. Using virtualized Cisco IOS XR, the Cisco NCS 6000 Series brings new levels of programmability and virtualization to support a wider range of new offerings, accelerate provisioning, and make the network more cost effective.

The Cisco NCS 6000 Series is powered by Cisco nPower Network Processor Units (NPUs). Cisco nPower devices are state-of-the-art programmable forwarding application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), designed to deliver the industry’s first zero-packet loss (ZPL) and zero-topology loss (ZTL) software upgrade capability based on Cisco patented technologies.

The Cisco NCS 6000 Series is engineered for environmental efficiency by offering an adaptable power-consumption model for its ASICs and the use of revolutionary complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) photonics technology. With these technologies together, the Cisco NCS 6000 Series can offer a highly power-efficient footprint for service provider routing.

Features and Benefits

Cisco NCS 6000 Series 60-Port 10Gbps Multiservice Line Cards (Figure 1) are industry-leading solutions that allow service providers to offer very high throughput over 60 ports with 10-Gbps interfaces. Optimized for high-speed IP and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) forwarding applications, they provide industry-leading forwarding scale and quality of service (QoS) at wire rate.

Cisco NCS 6000 Series 60-port 10Gbs Multiservice Line Cards use the state-of-the-art Cisco nPowerX1e intelligent silicon design. Using enhanced small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules, these cards support a variety of optical fibers, reaches, and optical capabilities.

The Cisco NCS 6000 Series 60-port 10Gbps Multiservice Line Cards offer significant advantages to service providers:

● Industry-leading throughput with full IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS forwarding capabilities, optimized for high-throughput Internet core, peering, and edge applications

● Advanced Cisco nPowerX1e Layer 3 forwarding NPU with industry-leading wire-rate lookup, forwarding, and QoS performance for IP and MPLS flows

● Built-in hardware acceleration for critical network control traffic

● Support across all Cisco NCS 6000 Series single-chassis and multichassis configurations for investment protection

● Efficient environmental design by adapting the power consumption to active Cisco nPower resources only

● In-service software upgrade

● Independently programmable and upgradable NPUs with fault protection and isolation

● Enhanced onboard multicore CPU for accelerated and scalable software processing

● Integrated WAN physical layer (PHY), OTU-2 framers for G.709 termination at 10-Gbps speeds

● Up to 1024 license-activated queues per 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical interface, with more than 61000 license-activated queues per card

● Accurate hardware-assisted time-stamping support for OAM and service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring

● Industry-leading environmental efficiency with a low power and weight profile per Gbps

Product Specifications

Table 1 provides a summary of the Cisco NCS 6000 Series 60-port 10Gbps line card specifications.

Table 1. Product Specifications

Cisco NCS 6000 Series 60-port 10Gbps Multiservice Line Cards can be ordered in various optics configurations. Optics specifications are listed in Table 2.

Table 2. Optical Modules Specifications

Ordering Information

To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering homepage. Table 3 provides ordering information for the products listed in this datasheet.

Table 3. Ordering Information

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