Cisco 88-LC0-36FH-M Line Card

Overview of the Cisco 8000 Series

Today’s networks provide essential infrastructure for autonomous cars, telemedicine, industrial robots, immersive experiences for virtual and augmented reality, connected devices, and hybrid work environments, as well as the recent artificial intelligence and machine learning data models. As a result of digital transformation, users and devices are demanding more bandwidth.

High-performance networking systems have historically been divided into routing or switching classes, with distinct hardware and software. But as the necessity for reliable networks proliferates, it is imperative that traditional networks undergo an architectural shift to address the need for exponential growth in bandwidth, ubiquitous connectivity, better quality of service, low latency coupled with high reliability, availability, and serviceability of the infrastructure. The Cisco^® 8000 Series Router portfolio completes this journey.

Cisco Silicon One^™ was the first routing silicon architecture to break through the 10-Tbps benchmark for network bandwidth. This is accomplished without sacrificing route capacity, packet-per-second forwarding performance, or feature flexibility. The Cisco Silicon One architecture achieves high performance and full routing capabilities without external memory. This is enabled by the clean-sheet internal architecture that includes on-chip high-bandwidth memory.

Powered by Silicon One ASIC innovation, the Cisco 8000 Series portfolio delivers provider-class routing functionality at unmatched density, performance, and power. This enables the Cisco 8000 Series to be deployed into an unprecedented range of routing roles—all supported with a single ASIC architecture and operating system—thus streamlining qualification, deployment, and operations.

The Cisco 8000 Series combines the revolutionary Cisco Silicon One, Cisco IOS^® XR software, and a set of clean-sheet chassis to deliver a breakthrough in high-performance routers. In particular, the Cisco 8000 modular systems portfolio, ranging from 4 slots to 18 slots, provides the benefits of deployment size flexibility and can be tailored to multiple use cases, from metro to high-speed core and aggregation, while providing high system density up to 1296x 400 Gigabit Ethernet (400G) ports and 5184x 100G ports on the 18-slot chassis. The performance of the Cisco 8000 Series modular systems goes hand in hand with the evolution of the line cards.

This data sheet introduces three line cards based on the Silicon One Q200 ASIC. The Silicon One Q200 ASIC offers 12.8-Tbps performance in 7-nm technology and delivers high-scale routing and deep buffering that typically require off-chip memory. These line cards deliver an industry-leading 400G platform with 14.4 Tbps per slot. They support 400G, 100G, 40G, and 10G ports at line rate in any slot of a Cisco 8000 Series modular router.

Key benefits of Cisco 8800 Series modular systems powered by Cisco Silicon One Q200

Architectural innovation

Advanced Q200 technology allows a dense 400G optimized system supporting 36x 400G ports per slot. The largest Cisco 8800 Series system supports 648 native 400G ports or 2592x 100G ports with breakout cables.

Business agility

A pay-as-you-grow Flexible Consumption Model helps customers protect their investment by right-sizing the network, adding capacity over time to better align to business outcomes.

Operational simplicity

With the latest enhancements in Cisco Crosswork^® Network Automation, along with advanced visualization dashboards, services monitoring with actionable insights, and closed-loop network optimization, customers can offer a consistent quality of experience for their services.

Features and benefits

Table 1.        Features and benefits of Cisco 8800 Series Q200-based line cards

Line card types

88-LC0-34H14FH

The Cisco 88-LC0-34H14FH (Figure 1) is a transport-optimized combo line card and provides 34 ports of QSFP-28 and 14 ports of QSFP56-DD (high-density 400G), aggregating to a total bandwidth of 9 Tbps. For additional flexibility, this card supports MACsec on 16 of the 100G ports.

The 88-LC0-34H14FH, 34x QSFP-28 ports plus 14x QSFP56-DD ports Q200-based transport-optimized line card

88-LC0-36FH

The Cisco 88-LC0-36FH Q200-based transport-optimized line card (Figure 2) provides 36 ports of QSFP56-DD, aggregating to a total bandwidth of 14.4 Tbps.

The 88-LC0-36FH, 36x QSFP56-DD ports Q200-based line card

88-LC0-36FH-M

Like the 88-LC0-36FH, the Cisco 88-LC0-36FH-M is a Q200-based transport-optimized line card (Figure 3) that provides 36 ports of QSFP56-DD aggregating to a total bandwidth of 14.4 Tbps. In addition, all 36x 400G ports support MACsec capability.

The 88-LC0-36FH-M, 36x QSFP56-DD ports MACsec line card

Product specifications

88-LC0-34H14FH

Table 2.        Key specifications for the 88-LC0-34H14FH line card

88-LC0-36FH

Table 3.        Key specifications for the 88-LC0-36FH line card

88-LC0-36FH-M

Table 4.        Key specifications for the 88-LC0-36FH-M line card

Compatibility

The Q200 line cards are supported by both the Cisco 8800 Route Processor (8800-RP) and the Cisco 8800 Route Processor 2 (8800-RP2) and all three generations of fabric cards: 88xx-FC, 88xx-FC0, and 88xx-FC1.

The Q200 line cards can coexist with all Q100 line cards and the 88-LC1-36EH P100 line card in the same chassis.

Environmental properties

Table 5.        Environmental properties for the 88-LC0-34H14FH, 88-LC0-36FH, and 88-LC0-36FH-M line cards

Regulatory and safety compliance

Table 6.        Regulatory and safety compliance

Hardware ordering information

Table 7.        Hardware ordering information

Software ordering information

Table 8.        Software ordering information

Cisco Licensing

Cisco Licensing is a flexible and secure licensing model that provides you with an easier, faster, and more consistent way to purchase, activate, manage, renew, and upgrade software products across the Cisco portfolio and across your organization. And it’s secure—you control what users can access. With Cisco Licensing you get:

●     Easy activation. Cisco Licensing establishes a pool of software licenses that can be used across the entire organization—no more PAKs (product activation keys).

●     Unified management. Cisco License Central (CLC) provides a complete view into all your Cisco products and services in an easy-to-use portal, so you always know what you have and what you are using.

●     License flexibility. Your software is not node-locked to your hardware, so you can easily use and transfer licenses as needed.