Cisco NCS 5500 (Network Convergence System) Series

The Cisco NCS 5500 Series is designed to ensure that high-scaled data center aggregational requirements for both web and service provider customers can be met both today and in the future. The NCS 5500 series offer the industry’s highest density and most cost-effective 100Gb ethernet solutions enabling 288 ports in ½ Rack using industry’s standard QSFP pluggable optic modules.

The NCS 5500 comes in several form factors 8 slot modular and fixed configurations, all can be powered via AC or DC power and designed to meet the powered environmental requirements of modern data centers. These series leverage the industry leading Cisco IOS XR operating system with robust features and functions such as applications hosting, machine-to-machine interfaces, telemetry and flexible package delivery.

Network solutions based on automation, fine visibility and control and software modularity combine with lower-cost models enable service providers to keep pace with growing demands of digitization and cloud. The NCS 5500 series can be a key component in the transformation of any network for data center aggregation.

Cisco NCS Licenses

Models and features: Cisco NCS 5500 License

The Cisco NCS 5501 is a Fixed,1 RU and Small form factor designed for pre-aggregation and aggregation at the edges of the data center leaf-spine data center/WAN topology which supports 800 Gbps of capacity.

NCS 5501-SE is NCS 5501 next-generation with extended scale capabilities.

NCS 5502 is a fixed, 2 RU member of NCS 5000 series which supports up to 4.8Tbps of capacity.

NCS 5502-SE is NCS 5502 next-generation with extended scale capabilities.

NCS 5508 is designed for Data centers, large enterprise, Web and service provider’s WAN, Core and Aggregation networks which consists Up to 8-line cards, 6 switch fabric cards, 2 route processors, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays and 8 power supplies slots per chassis.

NCS 5516 is Modular router for data centers, large enterprise, Web and service provider’s WAN, Core and Aggregation networks which consists Up to 16-line cards, 6 switch fabric cards, 2 route processors, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays and 10 power supplies slots per chassis.

Cisco NCS 5500 License  

In order to enable various features on the NCS 5500 routers, you should use Cisco smart licenses.  

Cisco NCS 5500 Smart License 

By introducing Cisco’s most innovative solution for managing licenses in a centralized platform, now, Cisco NCS 5500 smart licenses can be used for all product instances’ registration on the Cisco smart software management website. This makes it easier for network administrations to have full-control over different licenses.  

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