N540-24Z8Q2C-SYS Cisco Network Convergence System 540 Router

Features

CPU

Memory

Storage

4-core 1.5Ghz x86 CPU

32GB DRAM

128GB storage

Interfaces

24x 1GE/10GE

8x 1GE/10GE/25GE

2x 40GE/100GE

Performance

Up to 300 Mpps

Power Supplies

Fans

Airflow

2 hot-swappable AC/DC power supplies provide 1 1 redundancy

4 modular fans provide 3 1 redundant system cooling

Front-to-back airflow

Temperature Range

I-Temp: -40°C to

70°C at 1,000ft

65°C at 6,000ft

55°C at 13,000ft

Surge Rating

As per IEC 61000-4-5

AC: 1kV DM, 2kV CM

DC: 1kV DM, 1kV CM

Timing

SyncE, PTP

Internal GNSS receiver

Interfaces: 1pps, 10MHz, ToD, antenna for GNSS

Class B

Physical Specification

1RU

Depth: 26 cm

1.72 in. x 17.3 in. x 10.1 in.

Weight: 5.9 kg

Software feature support

Layer 2

Layer 2 forwarding and bridging

Bridge Domains (BD)

Ethernet Flow Point (EFP)

IEEE 802.1Q VLANs and Q-in-Q

Ethernet Link Aggregation Group (LAG)

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) 802.3ad

G.8032

Spanning tree

Jumbo frames on all ports

Layer 3

IPv4 and IPv6 unicast routing

Layer 3 interfaces: physical interfaces and sub-interfaces

Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)

Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2, OSPFv3)

Intermediate System to Intermediate System (ISIS, ISISv6)

Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP)

Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP)

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

Integrated Routing Bridging (IRB) with Bridge Virtual Interface (BVI)

Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

MPLS

Label switching (LER, LSR)

Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

BGP Labeled Unicast (BGP-LU)

MPLS Traffic Engineering with RSVP-TE

Point-to-point L2VPN – Static, T-LDP, EVPN-VPWS

Multipoint L2VPN – VPLS, EVPN

L2/L3 EVPN with Anycast IRB

6PE, 6VPE

IP Loop-Free Alternate (LFA) Fast Reroute (FRR)

RSVP-TE Fast Reroute (FRR)

Flex-Algo

Segment Routing (SR)

Segment Routing with MPLS data plane (SR-MPLS)

Segment Routing with IPv6 data plane (SRv6)

ISIS, OSPF, BGP extensions to segment routing

BGP Egress Peering Engineering (BGP-EPE)

Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SRTE)

Segment Routing Path Computation Element (SR-PCE)

Topology Independent Loop-Free Alternate (TI-LFA)

Segment Routing On-Demand Next-hop (SR-ODN)

Advanced OAM- SR Performance Monitoring

Multicast

IPv4 and IPv6 multicast routing

PIM-SM, PIM-SSM

IGMPv3, MLDv2

mLDP

mVPN

P2MP-TE

Quality of Service (QoS)

Class-based 3-level Hierarchical QoS

Virtual Output Queueing (VOQ)

Policing, Shaping

Multi-level priority queuing

Classification based on L2/L3/L4 fields

Remarking

Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)

Deep packet buffer

Timing

SyncE with ESMC

Integrated GNSS receiver

IEEE 1588-2008 PTP T-GM, T-BC, T-TSC

G.8265.1, G.8275.1, G.8275.2

G.8273.2 Class B/C

Security

Control-plane and management plane protection

Local Packet Transport Services (LPTS)

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)

Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS )

Secure Shell (SSH)

Layer 3 ingress and egress ACLs for IPv4 and IPv6

Layer 2 ingress ACLs

Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (Unicast RPF)

OAM

CDP, LLDP, ICMP, DHCP Relay

IP SLA

MPLS OAM

Ethernet OAM: CFM, Y.1731 DM/SLM

TWAMP

H/W based timestamping

Y.1564

Model/Event Driven Telemetry

Netflow

SPAN/ERSPAN

Manageability

CLI

SNMP MIB

NETCONF/gRPC (XML, JSON, GPB)

YANG models (native, open: OpenConfig, IETF)

RPM-based SW infrastructure

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) with iPXE

3^rd party application hosting

Environmental properties

Normal operating temperature

Industrial temperature: –40°C to 70°C (1,000 ft.), 65°C (6,000 ft.), 55°C (13,000 ft.)

Commercial temperature: –5°C to 55°C (6,000 ft.), 40°C (13,000 ft.)

Nonoperating (storage) temperature

–40 to 70°C (–40 to 158°F)

Operating humidity

All variants of NCS 540: 5% to 95% (noncondensing) except

Storage (relative) humidity

5% to 95% at 40°C per NEBS GR-63-Core

Altitude

0 to 13,000 ft.

Power

Worldwide ranging AC (90–265V; 50–60 Hz)

Worldwide ranging DC (–40V to –72V)

Regulatory standards compliance: safety and EMC

Regulatory compliance

Products should comply with CE markings according to directives 2004/108/EC and 2006/95/EC

Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS)

Designed to meet GR-63-CORE and GR-1089-CORE

Safety

UL 60950-1 Second Edition

CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition

EN 60950-1 Second Edition

IEC 60950-1 Second Edition

AS/NZS 60950-1

GB4943

EMC standards

47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A

AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A

CISPR22 Class A

EN55022 Class A

ICES003 Class A

VCCI Class A

EN61000-3-2

EN61000-3-3

KN22 Class A

CNS13438 Class A

EMC immunity

EN55024

CISPR24

EN300386

KN 61000-4 series

ETSI

ETS/EN 300 119 Part 4

ETS/EN 300 019 — Storage: Class 1.2, Transportation: Class 2.3, In-Use/Operational: Class 3.2

ETS/EN 300 753

RoHS

The product is RoHS-6 compliant with exceptions for leaded-ball grid-array (BGA) balls and lead press-fit connectors