First Published: February 14, 2019

The Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 1002 is a 2 RU system that delivers fully programmable, high-bandwidth capacity (up to 250 Gbps) wavelengths over distances exceeding 3000 km using existing fiber. Powered by the industry-leading Cisco IOS XR operating system, Cisco NCS 1002 offers robust functions such as third party application hosting, machine-to-machine interface, and telemetry.

NCS 1002 delivers the following benefits:

  • Supports up to 2 Tbps capacity.

  • Transports 100, 200, or 250 Gbps per wavelength on the same platform through software provisioning.

  • Transports 10 GE, 40 GE, and 100 GE on the same platform through software provisioning.

  • Supports grid-less tuning for flex-grid dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM).

  • Supports different modulation formats (PM-QPSK or PM-16QAM).

  • Supports 7% or 20% Soft Decision (SD) FEC for maximum optical performance.

  • Allows for automated installation, configuration and monitoring.

  • Supports Machine-to-machine (M2M) APIs based on YANG models for ease of configuration.

  • Supports a telemetry agent for a pub-sub model of device monitoring.

This latest release of Cisco IOS XR operating system opens up the architecture of Cisco IOS XR using a 64-bit Linux-based operating system to deliver greater agility, automation and simplicity, while reducing the cost of operating the networks.

The new innovations in this release enable incremental builds, agile workflows, and modular delivery of software, while also offering the capability to host third-party applications on Cisco routers. These innovations deliver these benefits by enabling traditional and web service providers to converge their data centers and wide area network (WAN) architectures, by making networks more programmable, and by facilitating tighter integration with popular IT configuration and management tools.

Hardware

Supported Pluggables

The following pluggables are supported in R6.5.2.

  • LQ210CR-CPA1

  • QSFP-100G-SM-SR

To view the list of pluggables supported in NCS 1002, see the Cisco NCS 1002 Overview chapter in Hardware Installation Guide for Cisco NCS 1002

Software Features Introduced in Release 6.5.2

These are the software features introduced in R5.6.2:

Event-Driven Telemetry Enhancements

Event-driven telemetry is supported for alarms and state transition of ports/interfaces for both OC based models and native models. New alarm is generated or an existing alarm is cleared, whenever an alarm changes. Event-driven telemetry will send information only about the new alarm generated or an existing alarm that is cleared.

When an alarm is received, the alarm is immediately sent through the telemetry system. The event-driven telemetry is enabled by setting the sample interval value to 0 in the subscription configuration.

For more information, see the "Configure Model-driven Telemetry" chapter in the Telemetry Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 1000 Series.

CLI Simplification

From R6.5.2, most of the platform-independent CLIs that are not used, are removed from NCS 1002.

gRPC Network Management Interface

gRPC Network Management Interface is an interface for a network management system to interact with a network element using yang model, based on gRPC protocol. This allows single client for both configurations and telemetry.

For more information, see the "Configure Model-driven Telemetry" chapter in the Telemetry Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 1000 Series.

Golden ISO

Golden ISO is a feature provided to user for building customized ISO using mini ISO, required SMUs and IOS-XR configuration. This feature saves installation effort and time. The system gets ready in a single command and single boot.

For more information, see the "Bring-Up Cisco NCS 1002" chapter in the System Setup and Sofware Installation Guide for Cisco NCS 1002.

Limitation

Use the Cisco-IOS-XR-crypto-ssh-cfg:ssh YANG model instead of Cisco-IOS-XR-crypto-sam-cfg:crypto model to configure SSH on NCS 1002.

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System Requirement

Memory Configuration

At least 16 GB RAM

Supported Hardware

For a complete list of supported optics, hardware and ordering information, see the data sheet.

See the Hardware Installation Guide for more information about installation.

Determine Software Version

Log in to NCS 1002 and enter the show version command 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show version
Thu Aug 13 11:44:54.929 IST Cisco IOS XR Software, Version 7.2.1 
Copyright (c) 2013-2020 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Build Information:
 Built By     : gopalk2
 Built On     : Wed Aug 12 06:35:54 PDT 2020
 Built Host   : iox-lnx-020
 Workspace    : /auto/srcarchive13/prod/7.2.1/ncs1k/ws
 Version      : 7.2.1
 Location     : /opt/cisco/XR/packages/
 Label        : 7.2.1

cisco NCS-1002 () processor
System uptime is 33 minutes

Determine Firmware Support

Log in to NCS 1002 and enter the sh hw-module fpd command: 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show hw-module fpd
Wed Aug 12 13:14:43.467 IST
FPD Versions
=================
Location Card type HWver FPD device ATR Status Running Programd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_05 CURRENT   3.77    3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_06 CURRENT   3.77    3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_12 CURRENT   3.77    3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_13 CURRENT   3.77   3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_19 CURRENT   3.77   3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_20 CURRENT   3.77   3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_26 CURRENT   3.77   3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 1.2  CDSP_PORT_27 CURRENT   3.77   3.77
0/0      NCS1002-K9 2.0  CFP2_PORT_05 CURRENT   4.40   4.40
0/0      NCS1002-K9 2.1  CFP2_PORT_06 CURRENT   5.52   5.52
0/0      NCS1002-K9 2.1  CFP2_PORT_12 CURRENT   5.52   5.52
0/0      NCS1002-K9 0.0  CFP2_PORT_13 CURRENT   1.01   1.01
0/0      NCS1002-K9 2.1  CFP2_PORT_19 CURRENT   5.52   5.52
0/0      NCS1002-K9 2.1  CFP2_PORT_20 CURRENT   5.52   5.52
0/0      NCS1002-K9 4.2  CFP2_PORT_26 CURRENT   3.20   3.20
0/0      NCS1002-K9 2.1  CFP2_PORT_27 CURRENT   5.52   5.52
0/0      NCS1002-K9 0.1  CTRL_BKP_LOW B CURRENT 2.23
0/0      NCS1002-K9 0.1  CTRL_BKP_UP B CURRENT  2.23
0/0      NCS1002-K9 0.1  CTRL_FPGA_LOW CURRENT  2.23   2.23
0/0      NCS1002-K9 0.1 CTRL_FPGA_UP CURRENT    2.23   2.23
0/RP0    NCS1K-CNTLR 0.1 BIOS_Backup BS CURRENT 15.10
0/RP0    NCS1K-CNTLR 0.1 BIOS_Primary S CURRENT 15.10 15.10
0/RP0    NCS1K-CNTLR 0.1 Daisy_Duke_BKP BS CURRENT 0.20
0/RP0    NCS1K-CNTLR 0.1 Daisy_Duke_FPGA S CURRENT 0.20 0.20
0/PM0    NCS1K-2KW-AC 0.0 PO-PriMCU CURRENT     4.00 4.00
0/PM1    NCS1K-2KW-AC 0.0 PO-PriMCU CURRENT

The above show output lists the hardware components that are supported in current release with their status. The status of the hardware must be CURRENT; Running and Program version must be similar.

Open Caveats for NCS 1002

Table 1.

Caveat ID Number

Description
CSCvn02184

Trunk Optics PM operation threshold min and max values are wrong.

CSCvo28142

gNMI does not stream data if optics ports are put in maintenance state.

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