Cisco Cisco CRS-X Multishelf System Data Sheet

 

 

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Data Sheet 

Cisco CRS 2 Port 100 Gigabit Ethernet and 5 Port 
40 Gigabit Ethernet Flexible Interface Module 

Product Overview 

The Cisco

®

 Carrier Routing System (CRS) provides outstanding economical scale, IP and optical network 

convergence, and a proven architecture. The Cisco CRS-X is powered by advanced portable address translation 

(PAT) advanced application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), a chipset architecture based on multidimensional 

engineering, and Cisco IOS

®

 XR Software, an innovative self-healing, distributed operating system. 

Networks face new challenges with the Internet of Everything (IoE). Trillions of things have become Internet-ready 

and can start communicating with each other, as well as to applications and people. The effects of machine-

directed events change network dynamics and impose entirely new service requirements. Managing bandwidth is 

no longer enough. Networks must become more elastic and programmable, capable of adapting and evolving. As 

part of an evolving and programmable network, the Cisco CRS delivers highly reliable operations and scales easily 

from single-chassis form factors to a massive multichassis system. Its design offers industry-leading efficiency in 

power consumption, cooling, and rack-space resources, while providing intelligent service-rich bandwidth capacity. 

The Cisco CRS supports up to 400-Gbps line rates, and its hardware is backward and forward compatible, helping 

protect existing and future investments. 

Features and Benefits 

The Cisco CRS 2 port 100 Gigabit Ethernet and 5 port 40 Gigabit Ethernet LAN/OTN Flexible Interface Module 

(Figure 1) offers the following advanced features and benefits: 

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400-Gbps line-rate throughput per slot, increasing the Cisco CRS capacity to 12.8 Tbps in a single chassis 

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Advanced forwarding ASICs to support traffic processing with optimized power consumption 

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Superior investment protection that maintains the existing Cisco CRS architecture, making it compatible 

with existing Cisco CRS-1 and Cisco CRS-3 line cards and physical layer interface modules (PLIMs) 

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Space, cost, and power savings with 100-Gbps Cisco CPAK

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 optics and 40-Gbps QSFP optics 

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Flexibility through Cisco AnyPort technology, which introduces 40- to 10-Gbps breakout options 

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Energy monitor functions that allow real-time power monitoring of individual components, including PLIMs 

and line cards, fabric, and performance route processor (PRP) through a command-line interface (CLI), 

beginning with Cisco IOS XR Software Release 5.1.3