ASR9K & NCS 5000

Brian Kvisgaard
System Engineer CCIE SP #41039
February 2016
The Hardware Foundation behind IOS XR
Innovations in Software Hardware and System Design

Virtual
RR/PE/DC Forwarder

Cisco IOS-XRv 9000 Cisco IOS XR on Merchant Silicon Cisco ASR 9000, CRS, and NCS 6000

OPTIMIZED Cisco XR Software

99.99%

Programmability
Elastic Cost Optimized Ultra-high Density Carrier Grade and Automation
 All Platforms

9910, 9912, 9922

MPA to be used with MOD400/MOD200

8x100GE
MOD400
OTN*
8x100GE 2X100GE
LAN MPA
PHY*
4x100GE 400G
OTN IPoDWDM
Line Cards
&
MPAs
20X10GE
MPA

Jan 2015 April 2015 August 2015 Dec 2015 Mar 2016 Jun 2016
XR 5.3.0 XR 5.3.1 XR 5.3.2 XR 6.0.0 XR 6.0.1 XR 6.1.1
Extending the Portfolio for Next-Gen DC, WAN Providers
Content DeliveryNCS 5508& Peering
Network Core Routers Label Edge Router
ASR 9K / NCS 6K NCS 6K / CRS-X ASR 9K

Metro Aggregation
NCS 5001/5002

Q4 NCS 5001 40x10G SFP+

Modular 8 slot Optical Core Q4
2015 288x100GE QSFP28 2015 4x100G
NCS 2K
QSFP28
Optical
High-scale WAN Aggregation MetroNCS 5002
NCS 5508 NCS 2K/4K 80x10G SFP+
Q4Access Aggregation
2015 4x100G
ASR 90x
QSFP28

MPLS CORE

DC Switching DC Switching
Nexus Nexus
Optical Data Center Interconnect
NCS 1002
NCS 5000
NCS-5000 Product Family
Innovations in Software, Hardware, and System Design

NCS-5001 NCS-5002
Fixed 1RU, 1.2Tbps @275W Fixed 2RU, 1.2Tbps@500W
40xSFP+ (10/1GE) and 80xSFP+ (10/1GE) and
4xQSFP28 (100GE) 4xQSFP28 (100GE)

Q4 Q4
2015 2015

*Engineering estimates
NCS 5000 High Level Architecture
Management
Ethernet CPU 16 GB DDR3 RAM

NVRAM
OBFL

P
Flash
C
Console H

USB Conn 3
Switch on Chip (SoC)
Power Supply

FAN / Temp

40/80 SFP + Cages 4 QSFP28

PCH = Platform Controller Hub

NCS 5001/5002 Positioning Core
Service Provider NCS 6000, CRS

Edge
ASR 9000
Position for Next Generation SP
Aggregation Architectures
Operates in Standalone and Satellite
Mode Aggregation

Offers 1G/10G Dense Aggregation NCS 5001/5002

1G/10G Access
links/100G Uplink
Powered by industry hardened IOS-XR Access

Residential Mobile Business

2G/3G / LTE

STB

Scale the SP Aggregation with NCS 5001/5002 Dense 10G Solutions

NCS 5001/5002/5011 Positioning
Web/OTT and SP-DC

MPLS Enabled TOR/Leaf Architectures

Spine Spine
Offers 10G/25G*/40G/100G Server
Aggregation
Powered by industry hardened IOS-XR

NCS NCS NCS NCS NCS NCS NCS NCS

5K 5K 5K 5K 5K 5K 5K 5K

*Pending Standardization

MPLS Enabled DC Architectures at the TOR

NCS 5000 Deep Dive
(NCS5001/NCS5002)
NCS 5001
Dense 10G/100G System
40X (1/10GE) ports (SFP/SFP+), Only 24 ports (ports 16 to 40) Supports DWDM and ZR
4X100G ports (4xQSPF28)

Latest 28nm CPU

Dimensions - 1 RU (1.72 X17.44 X 19.3)

Weight of chassis: 20.5 lbs

Storage 32 G (internal Flash)

Support for external USB on the back

Front to Back/Back to Front Airflow

Redundant Modular Fan Tray and AC/DC Power supply

Max Power (Estimated) ~ 275W

 NCS5001 View
Console MGNT Port1

Status LEDs

TOD MGNT Port 2

SFP+ Ports
100G QSFP28 Ports

1 PPS
Power Supply 1 Fan 1 USB Port
Fan 2
Power Suppy 2
10 MHz
NCS 5002
Dense 10G/100G based System
80X (1/10GE) ports (SFP/SFP+), Only higher 40 ports Supports DWDM and ZR
4X100G ports (4xQSPF28)

Latest 28nm CPU

Dimensions - 2 RU (3.38 x 17.44 x 19.3)
Weight of chassis: 33 lb
Storage 32 G (internal Flash)
Support for external USB in the front
Front to Back / Back to Front Airflow
Redundant Modular Fan Tray and AC/DC Power supply
Max Power (Estimated) ~ 500W
NCS 5000 as nV satellite
 NCS 5001/5002 as Satellite Network
Topologies
Satellite Host
NCS 5001 & NCS 5002 will be supported as
Satellite to ASR 9000 and NCS 6000 Hub & Spoke

Access Ports 1G/10G

Satellite Host A
ICL 10G/100G

ICCP
Satellite
Hub & Spoke Topology will be supported in
FCS release Satellite Host B

Ring & L2 Fabric Topology planned to be Ring

supported in future release
CFM
VLAN-A Host A
Satellite
VLAN-B
CFM
Host B
L2 Fabric
 NCS5k as an nV Satellite XR 6.0.0 FCS

80 x 10G SFP+ and 4 x 100G

QSFP28

NCS-5002 can be used directly as an nV Satellite

H/w, S/w PIDs and all onboard firmware are same for standalone and satellite operations.

100% plug-and-play installation

No need to telnet directly into this switch for initial installation or for feature configuration/
monitoring; all handled from host ASR9K.
On first time boot up, the s/w intelligently discovers the mode its supposed to operate on and
switches to satellite mode (if it receives SDAC discovery probes from the Host) or standalone
mode (if user starts configuration directly) as needed.