N540-FH-AGG-SYS= N540-Front Haul Aggregation Router

Features

CPU

Memory Storage

8-core 1.7Ghz x86 CPU

8GB DRAM 32GB storage

Interfaces

^*24x1G/10G/25G (802.1Qbu, CPRI option 3-8)

4x100G

^*Universal Port = Port can be used for CPRI, eCPRI, Ethernet (1/10/25GE)

Throughput

Up to 900 Gbps

Power Supplies Fans Airflow

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

6 modular fans provide 5 1 redundant system cooling

Front-to-back airflow

Temperature Range

C-Temp: 0°C to 55°C at 1,000ft

50°C at 6,000ft

45°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 SW^*

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

Physical Specification

1RU

Depth: 58cm

1.72 in. x 17.5 in. x 22.82 in (H x W x L)

Weight: 11.3 kg

Software feature support on NCS 540 Fronthaul Routers in Cisco IOS XR

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

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)

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)

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

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

3rd party application hosting on N540-24Z8Q2C-SYS

Environmental properties for NCS 540 fixed systems

Normal operating temperature

Industrial temperature: –40°C to 65°C (1,000 ft.), 60°C (6,000 ft.), 45°C (13,000 ft.)

Commercial temperature: 0°C to 55°C (1,000 ft.), 50°C (6,000 ft.), 45°C (13,000 ft.)

Nonoperating (storage) temperature

–40 to 70°C (–40 to 158°F)

Operating humidity

NCS 540: 15% to 85% (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

Regulatory compliance

Products 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, GR-1089-CORE and GR-3108 Class-2

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