Cisco NCS 5500

Cisco NCS 5500 Welcomes 400GE and Doubles Installed Base

I recently had the good fortune to spend time with some of our big Service Provider customers. On the way back from my trip, I had time to reflect on the tectonic shifts that will play out in the SP market over the coming years, and how Cisco’s own investment in architectures, systems, silicon, and…

Cisco NCS 5500 Sees Strong Customer Momentum

It has been two years since we started shipping our cloud-scale networking products.  The Cisco NCS 5500 Series was specifically designed to be a scalable, low-power consumption, and cost-optimized 100G routing platform, with a path to 400G. The NCS 5500 product family is built to meet the massive b…

September 20, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Setting the Pace with the Cisco NCS 5500

We wrote recently how Cisco’s innovation machine is moving faster than ever – with the “x-speed” project that delivered several new platforms last year, including the NCS1000, NCS 5500, and enhancements to IOS XR, such as streaming telemetry, application hosting, and segment routing. The Cisco NCS 5…