The Network Convergence System 5500 Seriesis a family of routing platforms including fixed and modular chassis. The platform offershigh port density, high performance forwarding, low jitter and the lowest power consumption per Gigabits/sec at a very cost-effective price point.NCS 5500 seriesoffers industry-leading density of routed 1/10/40/100Gports for high-scale WAN aggregation. Itis designed to efficiently scale acrossData Centers, Large Enterprise, Web, Service Provider WAN and Aggregation Networks.The NCS 5500 leverages the industry-leading IOSXR OperatingSystemwitha full suite of standard layer-2 and layer-3 protocols, plus newfeatures and functions such as:

Application Hosting
Programmability
Enhanced Automation
Machine to Machine interface (M2M)
Telemetry
Flexible Package Delivery

This white paper focuses on the hardware architecture,characteristics and packet forwarding of NCS 5500 modularplatforms.

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