Cisco NCS 5500 Product Overview
Cisco NCS 5500 system is a high fault-resilient platform, which provides next generation data-center switching
environment with high bandwidth and low latency.
Cisco NCS 5500 system provides:
• A modular router with a centralized route processor with multiple line card per chassis.
• High density, high performance, and merchant silicon-based line cards.
• IP and MPLS switching at a low cost per 100G.
• Label Switched Router (LSR) and possible Light Label switched Edge Router (LER) features and
functionality with limited hardware scale and software functionality.
Note The Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 5700 Series builds on the Cisco NCS 5500 fixed systems by
combining the forwarding ASIC design with the Cisco IOS XR7 OS. The Cisco NCS 5700 series includes
the following variants:
• NCS-57B1-6D24
• NCS-57B1-5DSE
These variants of the NCS 5700 series run on the Cisco IOS XR7 operating system. For information about
setting up the routers, see Setup Cisco NCS 5700 Series Routers with XR7 OS. For information about installing
the XR7 OS on NCS 5700 series, see Install Cisco IOS XR7 on NCS 5700 Series Routers.
• Command Modes, on page 1
Command Modes
The router runs on virtualized Cisco IOS XR software. Therefore, the CLI commands must be executed on
virtual machines, namely the XR LXC and the System Admin LXC.
The command modes are applicable for the Cisco NCS 5500 Series Routers. This table lists the command
modes for the LXCs.
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Command Modes
Command Mode Description
XR EXEC mode Run commands on the XR LXC to display the operational state of
the router.
(XR LXC execution mode)
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router#
XR Config mode Perform security, routing, and other XR feature configurations on
the XR LXC.
(XR LXC configuration mode)
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router#configure
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)#
System Admin EXEC mode Run commands on the System Admin LXC to display and monitor
the operational state of the router hardware. The chassis or
(System Admin LXC execution mode)
individual hardware modules can be reloaded from this mode.
Example:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router#admin
sysadmin-vm:0_RP0#
Admin Configuration modeSystem Run configuration commands on the System Admin LXC to manage
Admin Config mode and operate the hardware modules of the entire chassis.
(System Admin LXCconfiguration Example:
mode)
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router#admin
sysadmin-vm:0_RP0#config
sysadmin-vm:0_RP0(config)#
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