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Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500) Reviews

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March 06, 2021

Cisco NCS - Scalable Access at an Affordable Price

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The Cisco 500 series platform has been a big part of our organizations since its release. It has been used as on-prem equipment at customer site, acting as an access layer for various services. It is a very cost effective way to provide Cisco devices at that particular layer of the network.
  • Switching.
  • Routing.
  • Access.
  • Some software bugs with initial releases, seems to be resolved now.
  • With introduction, EOL on some similar products in the Cisco family.
  • OS features could be expanded.
The Cisco NCS platform is very well suited to be an access layer device within our network. There are definitely other applications with its flexible licensing to add additional ports (including 10G) and features. Having scalable licensing allows for this platform to be used even when cost needs to be low for a network solution.
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June 12, 2019

NCS540 Good Middle of the Road Box

Ben Wiechman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ben Wiechman
Score 8 out of 10
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Two primary use cases: 1)10G port aggregation at the SP edge (RPHY aggregation, 10G E-UNI/NNI ports, access aggregation) where higher 10G port density is required than is possible on the ASR9001 routers we typically have installed in a CO location. 2) POP router for small POP expansions with unknown growth potential. Reasonable trade-off between port density and cost, especially in greenfield deployments with unknown market potential.
  • Pay as you grow
  • Operating system is consistent with other establish equipment (IOS-XR) — using primarily NCS540
  • Support for 25G port speeds
  • MPLS feature set on NCS520
  • Full support for RFC2544, Y.1564 across the product line
  • Greater clarity of the impact of smaller buffers on NCS540 when compared to other Qumran chipsets — some use cases like RPHY aggregation at network core are not a good fit.
Well suited for10G aggregation at network edge. Small managed networks such as school districts or distributed enterprise campus. Not well suited to RPHY aggregation at network core — queuing in NCS540 results in jitter and poor RPHY performance. Allow port license purchases in smaller units. Better support for SLA performance monitoring capabilities would allow use as a box for 10G aggregation for Carrier Ethernet NNI handoff.
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What is Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)?

The Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500) is a highly secure and highly available access-routing platform for service providers.
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