Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series Enhanced Scale Line Card - expansion module - 400Gb Ethernet QSFP-DD x 18

Based on the Cisco Global Cloud Index, digitalization is projected to grow global data center and public/private cloud network traffic. To help network providers meet these challenges, the Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series is built with features such as extremely high port densities, deep packet buffering, and forwarding hardware optimized for these types of deployments.

The Cisco NCS 5500 Series modular chassis provides a line card to address customer needs to use flexible interfaces and port densities, along with full bandwidth utilization of the forwarding ASIC. This generation of line cards will provide the capability for dense 400G interface ports with QSFP-DD optics, thus providing operators with readiness for mass-scale networking.