Cisco NC55-24X100G-SE 24-Port 100GbE QSFP28 Line Card for Nexus NCS 5500 Series

The Cisco Nexus NCS 5500 NC55-24X100G-SE line card is a high-performance, scalable solution designed to meet the demanding requirements of modern data centers, carrier-grade backbones, and enterprise networks. Equipped with 24 100GE QSFP28 ports, this line card delivers a total throughput of up to 2.4 Tbps, ensuring exceptional data transfer speeds and reliability.

• 24 x 100GbE QSFP28 ports with 2.4 Tbps total throughput
• Support for advanced protocols: VXLAN, BGP EVPN, and MPLS
• Advanced thermal management system for optimal power efficiency
• Seamless network expansion and advanced virtualization capabilities
• Carrier-grade reliability for mission-critical operations

Built to support large-scale network deployment and service expansion, this line card features an advanced enhanced architecture that elevates overall network forwarding efficiency and service bearing capacity. It optimizes core system resources to deliver expanded network scale capabilities, empowering networks to accommodate massive routing tables, refined traffic scheduling, and precise access control management.

Engineered for versatile real-world deployment scenarios, the NC55-24X100G-SE seamlessly integrates with the modular NCS 5500 chassis ecosystem, supporting flexible optical transceiver configurations to adapt to diverse interconnection demands across data center interlinks, backbone network aggregation, and metropolitan area network core layers.

Beyond pure bandwidth expansion, the line card integrates comprehensive intelligent service capabilities. It delivers sophisticated quality of service mechanisms to prioritize critical business traffic, ensure stable transmission of key services such as cloud computing, video streaming, and enterprise private lines, and effectively avoid network congestion.

The modular and standardized design simplifies daily maintenance, fault troubleshooting, and capacity expansion workflows, greatly reducing network operation and maintenance costs. By maximizing the utilization of existing NCS 5500 chassis resources, it lowers overall network construction investment while reserving sufficient upgrade space for future 5G bearing, cloud interconnection, and ultra-large-scale data service iterations.