The Cisco NCS 5500 Series modular chassis provides 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 high-scaled line card, which improves the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) scale capabilities x8 times when compared with the 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-A-SE line card (Figure 1) provides 36 ports of 100GE. This line card uses QSFP28/QSFP+ transceivers and is to be used in any of the NCS 5500 series of modular chassis. This card is designed for scale-enhanced configuration needs with expanded FIB, QoS, ACL, and so on.