Cisco Cisco ASR 5500 Prospecto

We are constantly improving our hardware platform and just released

our Data Processing Card 2 (DPC2) cards, which have improved

platform performance by up to 30 percent, depending on the call

model. The ASR 5500 platform has been adopted and deployed in

some of the largest mobile networks in the world, running proven

Cisco StarOS Software, which has been deployed by more than

350 operators.

Overview

The Cisco ASR 5500 platform is a 21-rack unit (RU), 19” rack-

mountable chassis that uses a midplane design and accepts I/O and

processing cards in the rear and fabric cards in front. Up to two ASR

5500 chassis can be installed into a 42RU rack. The rear cards are

larger and used for chassis management, I/O, and session processing.

The front cards are smaller and used for fabric crossbars and persistent

storage. Note that the front cards are notably shallower than the rear

cards. Both the front and rear of the Cisco ASR 5500 offer 10 card

slots. The rear slots have a common midplane connector that is shared

between the supported cards. This allows for different mixes of I/O and

processing capacity depending on the customer’s intended use.

Chassis Details

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NEBS Certified: 2 Cisco ASR 5500 chassis per 7-foot rack with

2RU unused space

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Fully redundant hardware configuration (that is, power supplies, fan

trays, I/O, processing and management cards, disks, and so on)

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Two 48V DC power filter units (PFUs): Each PFU has four independent

80W power feeds, 16 total power cords between the two PFUs

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Fully loaded chassis operates on one PFU, with the second PFU

for redundancy

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Four fan trays: Each fan tray has multiple independent fans (front upper,

rear upper, front lower, and rear lower). Airflow enters at the front, is

drawn up through the system, and vents to the upper rear and sides.

Cable management trays for I/O cables: Ten slots on front and

10 slots on rear

Dimensions

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Size (H x W x D): 36.75 in. x 17.25 in. x 27.5 in. (93.35cm x 43.82cm x

69.85cm)

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Weight: 450 lbs./204.1 kilograms

Front Chassis Cards

Fabric and Storage Card (FSC)

The Cisco ASR 5500 chassis has FSC cards placed in the front-facing

slots in the chassis. These cards occupy dedicated slots 13–18 in the

middle of the front side of the chassis. Every FSC adds to the available

fabric bandwidth to each card.

System Status Card (SSC)

The SSC cards of the Cisco ASR 5500 are front-loading cards and

occupy dedicated slots 11 and 12. One SSC is required for operation,

because the card is responsible for chassis power monitoring.

For redundancy purposes, the installation of two SSC cards is

recommended.

Rear Chassis Cards

Management I/O Module (MIO)

The MIO cards of the Cisco ASR 5500 are rear-loading cards. The MIO

cards perform external I/O operations as well as chassis management

functions. The MIO cards automatically implement 1:1 port redundancy

(active/standby). From a physical I/O perspective, each MIO provides

10-Gigabit Ethernet interface ports for external I/O operations and two

Gigabit Ethernet interface ports for local contexts.

“ Mobile data traffic is soaring worldwide, more than

tripling by 2018.”

—

Jessica Ekholm

Research Director at Gartner

Cisco ASR 5500 Multimedia Core Platform

Solution Overview

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