Cisco Network Convergence System 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder Data Sheet

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Product overview

The Cisco NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder (Figure 1) is a single-slot line card capable of supporting 16xQSFP-DD ports, -8xQSFP-DD client ports with 400GE, 100GE and OTU4 interfaces (available in roadmap) and 8xQSFP-DD trunk ports.

Each NCS 1004 chassis provide four line card slots, and the Cisco NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder can be placed in any of them to fill maximum capacity of the shelf (4x).

NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder

The Cisco NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder line card supports the following optics on client and trunk: QSFP-DD, QDD-ZR, QDD-ZR+, QDD-ZR++, QSFP-100G-LR-S, QSFP-100G-FR-S, and QSFP-100G-DR-S.

The line card supports the following functionalities:

1.     8 x 400GE Transponder

2.     8 x 4 x 100GE Muxponder

3.     100GE Transponder mode

4.     4 x ZR/ZR+/ZR++ regens (available in roadmap)

5.     Encryption with 0dBm QSFP-DD

Management

The Cisco NCS 1004 provides comprehensive management capabilities to support Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning (OAM&P) capabilities through IOS XR CLI, SNMP, syslog, and XML. In addition, iPXE for automated software download and Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for automated configuration download are available for simplified installation. For machine-to-machine configuration and management of NCS 1004, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gRPC transport protocols with JSON, XML, and GPB encoding are provided. OpenConfig protocols for management GNMI and operations GNOI are also supported. The NCS 1004 provides a set of native YANG models as well as the ability to map into any industry standard or customer-defined YANG data models. For monitoring, NCS 1004 provides a streaming telemetry feature that relies on a push mechanism to disseminate user-selected PM and status information at user-specified frequencies at granular 10-second intervals. This improves monitoring speed and scale compared to traditional pull-based mechanisms such as SNMP. The telemetry infrastructure also allows for events such as alarms and port-state changes to be notified.

The NCS 1004 High=Density QSFP-DD Transponder can be managed completely using CLI or XML.

OpenConfig is supported for 4x100GE MXP and 400GE TXP configurations.

In the upcoming software releases, the line card is capable of supporting remote node management with GCC Functionality, and the line card is capable of supporting AES-256 encryption of the data with IKEv2 between two end points.

Performance monitoring

The Cisco NCS 1004 supports performance monitoring of optical parameters on the client and DWDM line interface, including laser bias current, transmit, and receive optical power. Ethernet RMON statistics for the client ports and OTN error counters for the trunk are also available. Calculation and accumulation of the performance-monitoring data are supported in 15-minute and 24-hour intervals as per G.7710.

Wavelength tunability

The line interface supports software-provisionable tunability across the full C band, covering 96 channels across 191.25 to 196.10 THz (1528.77 to 1566.72 nm).

Key elevator pitch

The Cisco NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder takes advantage of DCO optics innovation without router dependency and compliment high-performance transponder cards with low-cost, low-power, dense, and simple TXP/MXP options.

The typical use cases for the line card includes:

●     Customer router infrastructure that is not 400G ready

●     Web/MSDC niche use cases

●     Optical transport applications at service providers

●     Encryption use cases

●     Regen use cases in the Cisco Routed Optical Network

Licensed transponder

The Cisco NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder supports both smart and electronic licensing. The base licensed hardware will not have any capacity by default. The user must purchase incremental QDD trunk licenses – unencrypted and encrypted. There is no distinction between MXP, TXP, or regen modes.

The following licenses shall be purchased:

S-N1K-QXP-TRK-L=: Smart license for NCS 1004 QDD-TXP trunk

E-N1K-QXP-TRK-L=: E-delivery license for NCS 1004 QDD-TXP trunk

S-N1K-QXP-TRKE-L=: Smart license for NCS 1004 encrypted QDD-TXP trunk

E-N1K-QXP-TRKE-L=: E-delivery license for NCS 1004 encrypted QDD-TXP trunk

Feature summary

The following table summarizes the features of the NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder.

Product specifications

Table 1.           NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder specifications

Regulatory compliance

The following table lists regulatory compliance information for the trunk card. Note that all compliance documentation may not be completed at the time of product release. Please check with your Cisco sales representative for countries other than Canada, the United States, and the European Union.

Table 2.           NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder regulatory compliance

Ordering information

Table 3.           NCS 1004 High-Density QSFP-DD Transponder line cards and license product ID

Table 4.           NCS 1004 High=Density QSFP-DD Transponder pluggable list

Warranty

The following warranty terms apply to the Cisco NCS 1004 High-Density Transponder as well as services you may use during the warranty period. Your formal warranty statement appears in the Cisco Information Packet that accompanies your Cisco product.

●     Hardware warranty duration: 5 years

●     Software warranty duration: 1 year

●     Hardware replacement, repair, or refund procedure: Cisco or our service center will use commercially reasonable efforts to ship a replacement part for delivery within 15 working days after receipt of the defective product at Cisco’s site. Actual delivery times of replacement products may vary depending on customer location.

Product warranty terms and other information applicable to Cisco products are available at www.cisco.com/go/warranty.

Product sustainability

Information about Cisco’s environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for our products, solutions, operations, and extended operations or supply chain is provided in the “Environment Sustainability” section of Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report.

Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environment Sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in the following table:

Table 5.           Cisco environmental sustainability information

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