Based on the Cisco Global Cloud Index, digitalization is projected to grow global data center and public/private cloud network traffic more than 25 percent annually, resulting in a threefold increase by 2019. To help network providers meet these challenges, the Cisco® Network Convergence System 5500 Series is built with features such as extremely high port densities, deep packet buffering, and forwarding hardware optimized for these types of deployments. The Cisco NCS 5500 Series modular chassis provides a wide variety of combo line cards to address the customer’s need to use flexible interfaces and port densities along with full bandwidth utilization of the forwarding ASIC. The Cisco NCS 5500 Series also offers a cost-effective solution while being able to support up to a million-entry Forwarding Information Base (FIB) scale on this base version of the line card. These line cards are capable of advanced packet forwarding, segment routing, programmable network management, and telemetry along with the robust and mature features already present in 64-bit Cisco IOS® XR Software. The Cisco NC55-36X100G line card (Figure 1) provides 36 ports of 100G/40G. All the ports can support 100G and 40G optics as well as 40G to 10G breakout. This line card uses QSFP28/QSFP+ form factor transceivers and can be used in any of the NCS 5500 Series of modular chassis. This card is designed for base scale configuration needs and is supported starting with Cisco IOS XR Software Release 6.0.
Features:
- 100GE, 40GE and 4X10GE breakout via QSFP28/28
- 10GE and 1GE via SFP+/SFP with QSA 4x10GE breakout using 40GE transceiver
- Industry-leading carrier-class Cisco IOS XR Software
- On-chip tables for 256K IPv4 or 64K IPv6 routes
Whats in the Box?
Specifications:
General Information
- Model Number: NC55-36X100G-BA
