Data sheet

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Cisco Network Convergence

System 1004

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Contents
Product overview 3
Features and benefits 4
Management 4
Headless Operation 4
Product Specifications 4
Regulatory Compliance 6
Ordering information 7
Warranty 7
Cisco environmental sustainability 8
Cisco Capital 8

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Video traffic continues to grow rapidly. It would take more than 5 million years to watch the
amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month in 2021. Every second, a
million minutes of video content will cross the network. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
will carry 71 percent of Internet traffic by 2021. Content providers will need to scale their
networks at speed to keep up with the demand for more video. Networks needs to be
designed with “web-scale” in mind. A web-scale network needs to scale at deployment
speed while being operationally simple. Network Convergence System 1004 uses state of
the art silicon along with complete automation and real-time visibility to deliver a universal
transponder solution that provides best-in-class performance for metro, long-haul and
submarine applications while being simple to deploy and manage.

Product overview
The Cisco NCS 1004 (Figure 1) is a 2RU system, mechanically optimized to maximize capacity at minimum
space and power footprint. The system uses a Linux kernel with the 64 bit IOS XR OS in a Linux Container (LxC)
and admin plane operating in a separate LxC. It encompasses carrier-class software with a number of features
such as machine-to-machine APIs based on YANG data models, streaming telemetry agent for real time,
granular device monitoring and also an infrastructure for 3rd party applications.

The NCS 1004 has two redundant and field replaceable AC & DC power supply units and three redundant and
field replaceable fans. It also provides a field replaceable controller card (Figure 1). The NCS 1004 has one
main SSD removable from CPU controller unit which is field replaceable. In addition, a local non-removeable
backup SSD is provided to store backup XR images and system customer configuration. Each NCS 1004
chassis provide four line card slots.

Figure 1.
Cisco NCS 1004 Front and Rear Views

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Features and benefits
NCS 1004 has a front to back airflow scheme. The air inlet is at the front side of the chassis and the exhaust is
on the rear side. This ensures that the airflow is not obstructed or impeded by any object as it may lead to
reduced airflow in the system, causing components to operate at a higher temperature. The controller is on the
front side and the PSUs and the fan units are on the rear side of the chassis. NCS1004 can host upto 4xsingle
slot NCS1004 line cards, but has been designed also to accommodate 2xdouble-high line cards.

Management
The Cisco NCS 1004 provides comprehensive management capabilities to support Operations, Administration,
Maintenance, and Provisioning (OAM&P) through IOS-XR CLI, SNMP, Syslog, and XML. In addition, iPXE for
automated software download and Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for automated configuration download are
available for simplified installation. For machine-to-machine configuration and management of NCS 1004,
NETCONF, RESTCONF and gRPC transport protocols with JSON, XML and GPB encoding are provided.
OpenConfig protocols for management GNMI and operations GNOI are also supported. The NCS 1004 provides
a set of native YANG models as well as the ability to map into any industry standard or customer defined YANG
data models. For monitoring, NCS 1004 provides a streaming telemetry feature that relies on a push mechanism
to disseminate user selected PM and status information at user specified frequencies at granular 10 second
intervals. This improves monitoring speed and scale compared to traditional pull based mechanisms such as
SNMP. The telemetry infrastructure also allows for events such as alarms, port-state changes to be notified.

The NCS 1004 can also support third party application hosting. Such an application can be hosted in a
container or docker and can perform provisioning and monitoring on the NCS 1004.

Headless Operation
The headless operation allows for NCS 1004 data plane to operate errorless during software upgrades and
when the controller card is either physically absent or in a failed state. The fault propagation will continue to
operate for client and trunk failures without the presence of the controller module.

Product Specifications
Table 1. Product Specifications

Feature Summary

Software Compatibility IOS X.R 7.0.1 or above

Physical Dimensions Occupies 2RU and fits into 2 or 4 post 19inch, 600mm ETSI, 23inch racks.

(NCS 1004) Weight: 65 pounds/29.48Kg

Maximum Power Consumption 480W

Typical Power Consumption 250W

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 Feature Summary

Common Units 2+1 FRU FANs

2KW 40-72 Vdc DC redundant PSU

2KW 90-264Vac AC redundant PSU

FRU Controller-5 ports(1 console, 2 RJ45 and 1 GE SFP management port, 2

USB3.0 with power delivery 1.8A @ 5V)

Dimensions NCS1004 17.4” wide x 19” deep x 3.5” tall

NCS1K4-DC-PSU 2.9” wide x 7.4” deep x 3.1” tall

NCS1K4-AC-PSU 2.9” wide x 7.4” deep x 3.1” tall

NCS1K4-FAN 3.3” wide x 6.9” deep x 3.2” tall

NCS1K4-CNTLR-K9 6.4” wide x 11” deep x 1.1” tall

Weight NCS 1004 9.73 Kg(empty chassis)

NCS1K4-DC-PSU 1.39 Kg

NCS1K4-AC-PSU 1.28 Kg

NCS1K4-FAN 0.8 Kg

NCS1K4-CNTLR-K9 1.08 Kg

LED

Attention LED Blue

Client and DWDM port LEDs Green

● No alarms
Amber
● Minor alarms
Red
Critical and Major alarms

Fan LED
Green
● All 3 FANs are present and running
Red
One or more FANs are absent or failed

PSU LED
● 2 PSUs present and operational Green

2 PSUs are not fully operational Red

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Regulatory Compliance
Table 2 lists regulatory compliance information for the chassis. Note that all compliance documentation may not
be completed at the time of product release. Please check with your Cisco sales representative for countries
that are not listed below.

Table 2. Regulatory Compliance

ANSI System ETSI System

Countries and Regions Supported

● Canada ● European Union

● United States ● Africa

● Korea ● CSI
● Japan ● Australia

● European Union ● New Zealand

● China
● Korea

● India
● Saudi Arabia
● South America

Safety

● CSA C22.2 #60950-1 – Edition ● IEC 60950-1 Information technology equipment Safety Part 1: General requirements - Edition 2,
7, March 2007 2005 + Amendment 1 2009 + Amendment 2 2013
● UL 60950-1 - Edition 2, 2014 ● EN 60950-1: Edition 2 (2006) Information technology equipment - Safety - Part 1: General
requirements + A11:2009 + A1:2010 + A12:2011 + A2:2013
● CE Low Voltage Directive (LVD): 2014/35/EC

Laser

● 21CFR1040 (2008/04) ● IEC 60825-1: 2014-05 Ed. 3.0Safety of laser products Part 1: Equipment classification,
(Accession Letter and CDRH requirements and users guide
Report) Guidance for Industry
● IEC60825-2 Ed.3.2 (2010) Safety of laser products Part 2: Safety of optical fibre communication
and FDA Staff (Laser Notice
systems
No. 56), May 2019

Optical

● ITU-T G.691 ● ITU-T G.975

Quality

● TR-NWT-000332, Issue 4, Method 1 calculation for 20-year Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)

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Ordering information
Part Number Description

NCS1004= Network Convergence System 1004 4 line card slots

NCS1K4-SYS NCS1004 Assemble To Order

NCS1K4-CNTLR-K9= Network Convergence System 1004 Controller

NCS1K4-FAN= Network Convergence System 1004 Fan

NCS1K4-AC-PSU= Network Convergence System 1004 AC Power Supply Unit

NCS1K4-AC-PSU-CBL= Network Convergence System 1004 AC Power Supply Cable

NCS1K4-AC-CBL-EU= Network Convergence System 1004 AC Power Supply Cable EU

NCS1K4-C21-C14-2M= NCS1004 power cord C21-C14 2 meter long

NCS1K4-CBL-4.25M= NCS1004 power cord C21-C14 4.25 meter long

NCS1K4-DC-PSU= Network Convergence System 1004 DC Power Supply Unit

XR-NCS1K4-721K9 NCS 1004 IOS XR Software Release 7.2.1 RTU- USB key

SF-NCS1K4-R721K9 NCS 1K - R7.2.1 SW, NCS1004-No RTU

NCS1K4-FLTR-ASL= Mechanical assembly for NCS1004 air filter

NCS1K4-FLTR= Network Convergence System 1004 Air Filter

NCS1K4-BRKT-19= NCS1004 mounting brackets for 19 inch rack

Warranty
The following are the warranty:

● Hardware warranty duration: 5 years

● Software warranty duration: 1 year
● Hardware replacement, repair, or refund procedure: Cisco or our service center will use commercially
reasonable efforts to ship a replacement part for delivery within 15 working days after receipt of the
defective product at Cisco’s site. Actual delivery times of replacement products may vary depending on
customer location.

Your formal warranty statement appears in the Cisco Information Packet that accompanies your Cisco product.

Product warranty terms and other information applicable to Cisco products are available at:
https://www.cisco.com/go/warranty.

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Cisco environmental sustainability
Information about Cisco’s environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for our products, solutions,
operations, and extended operations or supply chain is provided in the “Environment Sustainability” section of
Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report.

Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environment
Sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in the following table:

Sustainability topic Reference

Information on product material content laws and regulations Materials

Information on electronic waste laws and regulations, including products, batteries, and packaging WEEE compliance

Cisco makes the packaging data available for informational purposes only. It may not reflect the most current
legal developments, and Cisco does not represent, warrant, or guarantee that it is complete, accurate, or up to
date. This information is subject to change without notice.

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