Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series Data Sheet

Cloud Scale for WAN Aggregation

The Cisco^® Network Convergence System 5500 Series offers industry-leading density of routed 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) ports for high-scale WAN aggregation. The NCS 5500 Series is designed to efficiently scale between data centers and large enterprise, web, and service provider WAN and aggregation networks.

Product Overview

The Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 5500 modular chassis series includes the Cisco NCS 5504 modular chassis, Cisco NCS 5508 modular chassis and the Cisco NCS 5516 modular chassis (Figure 1). The Cisco NCS 5504 supports up to four line cards, six switch fabric cards, two route processors, two system controllers, three fan trays, and four power supplies. The Cisco NCS 5508 supports up to eight line cards, six switch fabric cards, two route processors, two system controllers, three fan trays, and eight power supplies.

The Cisco NCS 5516 supports up to 16 line cards, 6 switch fabric cards, 2 route processors, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays, and 10 power supplies. These routers support 10, 25, 40, 50^* and 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Cisco NCS 5500 Chassis Components

The Cisco NCS 5500 chassis are built using the components illustrated in Figure 2, which are described in the following sections. Figure 2 shows components of a Cisco NCS 5508 chassis. The NCS 5504 & NCS 5516 uses the same components with the exception of chassis-specific fabric modules and chassis-specific fan trays. The Cisco NCS 5516 has 16 line cards & Cisco NCS 5504 has 4 line cards.

Cisco NCS 5500 Series Line Cards

The NCS 5500 chassis supports the Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP) Cisco NCS 5500 Series line cards described in Table 1.

Table 1.       Cisco NCS 5500 Series Line Cards

Cisco NCS 5500 Series Switch Fabric Cards

As part of the NCS 5500 Series, the Cisco NCS 5504, the Cisco NCS 5508 and Cisco NCS 5516 chassis have a Clos fabric design that interconnects the line cards with rear-mounted fabric modules. It supports up to six switch fabric cards; all fabric cards are directly connected to all line cards. With load balancing across fabric cards, the architecture achieves optimal bandwidth distribution within the chassis. (See Table 2.)

Table 2.       Cisco NCS 5500 Series Switch Fabric Card

Cisco NCS 5500 Series Route Processor

A pair of redundant route processor cards manages all routing operations on the Cisco NCS 5504, Cisco NCS 5508 chassis & NCS 5516 chassis. (See Table 3.)

Table 3.       Cisco NCS 5500 Series Route Processor Module

Cisco NCS 5500 Series System Controller

A pair of redundant system controllers offloads chassis management functions from the route processor cards. The controllers are responsible for managing power supplies and fan trays and monitoring the environmental conditions in the chassis. (See Table 4.)

Table 4.       Cisco NCS 5500 Series System Controller

Cisco NCS 5500 Series Power Supply

The Cisco NCS 5500 Series supports hot-swappable, front-panel-accessible power supplies. N+1 and N+N (grid) redundancy modes are supported for a fully loaded Cisco NCS 5504 & NCS 5508, and N+1 and N+M redundancy modes are supported for a fully loaded Cisco NCS 5516. The 3000W AC and DC power supplies are 80 Plus Platinum rated, providing more than 92 percent efficiency across typical workloads. (See Table 5.)

The additional unused power-supply slots are not needed with existing line cards, but they offer headroom to support higher-bandwidth line cards in the future.

Table 5.       Cisco NCS 5500 Series Power Supplies

Cisco NCS 5500 Series Fan Trays

Three hot-swappable fan trays are supported on the NCS 5504, NCS 5508 and NCS 5516 chassis with front-to-back cooling. Each fan tray covers two fabric modules and can be removed for access.

Software Requirements

The Cisco NCS 5508 supports Cisco IOS^® XR Software Release 6.0 and later, and the Cisco NCS 5516 supports Cisco IOS XR Software Release 6.1 and later, Cisco NCS 5504 supports Cisco IOS XR Software Release 6.3 and later.

For a complete list of supported features, refer to the Cisco Feature Navigator.

Specifications

Tables 6 through 8 list key specifications for the Cisco NCS 5500 Series. (Check software release notes for feature support information.)

Supported Optics Modules

A detailed list of all supported optics by the NCS 5500 Series is posted at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/interfaces-modules/transceiver-modules/products-device-support-tables-list.html.

Environment

Table 6.       Environmental Properties

^[1] Short-term refers to a period of not more than 96 consecutive hours and a total of not more than 15 days in 1 year.
(This number refers to a total of 360 hours in any given year, but no more than 15 occurrences during that 1-year period.)

Weight and Typical Power

Table 7.       Weight and Power Consumption

Regulatory Standards Compliance

Table 8.       Regulatory Standards Compliance: Safety and EMC

Ordering Information

Table 9 provides ordering information.

Table 9.       Ordering Information

Warranty

The Cisco NCS 5500 Series has a 1-year limited hardware warranty. The warranty includes hardware replacement with a 10-day turnaround from receipt of a Return Materials Authorization (RMA).

Service and Support

Cisco offers a wide range of services to help accelerate your success in deploying and optimizing the Cisco NCS 5500 Series. These innovative Cisco Services offerings are delivered through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and partners, and they are focused on helping you increase operating efficiency and improve your data center network. Cisco Advanced Services use an architecture-led approach to help you align your data center infrastructure with your business goals and achieve long-term value. Cisco SMARTnet^™ Service helps you resolve mission-critical problems with direct access at any time to Cisco network experts and award-winning resources.

With this service, you can take advantage of the Cisco Smart Call Home service, which offers proactive diagnostics and real-time alerts on your Cisco NCS 5500 Series. Spanning the entire network lifecycle, Cisco Services offerings help increase investment protection, optimize network operations, support migration operations, and strengthen your IT expertise.

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