MЕ Series routers are multifunctional devices with a high port density intended for use in provider networks as aggregation router and IP/MPLS network transport border routers. These routers are cost-effective, compact and high-performance solution which can be used to organize operator’s points of presence when providing data services for large customers with high reliability requirements. Fault tolerance of devices is ensured by redundant power supplies (1+1) and by replaceable fan modules. All redundant units are hot-swappable.
In addition to traffic routing and switching, the main functionality of the device includes wide support for MPLS switching mechanisms, such as MPLS Layer3 VPN, VPLS (Kompella/Martini), VPWS with pseudowire backup capabilities, Multicast routing with support for PIM-SM/PIM- SSM/MSDP/Anycast PIM, as well as rich QoS capabilities. This set of functions allows to use devices as full-featured provider edge (PE) routers.
ME5100 and ME5200 are routers with a fixed set of network interfaces, hot-swappable power supplies and fan modules and can be used in those networks points where high performance in a compact form factor is required. Routers are designed for installation in 19" constructive and have a height of 2U.
MPLS ROUTER ME5100
- Packet processor - Broadcom BCM88660
- CPU - Broadcom XLP308, MIPS 1200Mhz
Integrated interfases
- 20 network interfaces of 10GE SFP+. Support 1GE mode (1000BASE-X).
- Available usage of 1000BASE-T SFP transceivers.
- Out Of Band (OOB) 1GE port (10/100/1000BASE-T)
- RS-232 console port (RJ-45)
- 1 x USB 2.0
- Synce synchronization clock input and output (SMB, 50Ohm)
Performance
- Throughput and SyStem performance - 200 Gbps, 300 Mpps
- Buffer memory - 6GB
- RAM - 8GB
- MAC table - 250K
- Bridge domains - up to 4K
- Routing table:
- FIB: up to 1M IPv4 or up to 512K IPv6. Resource shared with MPLS switching tables and elements of single-hop BFD sessions. RIB is limited by free RAM capacity
- L3 interfaces - up to 4K
- MPLS PW - up to 12K
- ARP table - up to 20K
- VRF (MPLS L3VPN) - up to 1000 (up to 128 with BGP process instances launched in every VRF)
- QoS queues - 96k
Physical parameters
- Air flow:
- Front-to-back air flow
- Three hot-swappable fan modules
- Power sources - Two hot-swappable power modules
- AC: 150..250V 50Hz
- DC: 36..72V
- Maximum power consumption - 250 W
- Operating temperature - from 0 to 45oC
- Weight - 9.5 kg
- Dimensions (WхHхD) - 440 х 87 х 500 mm
Interfaces functions
- Link aggregation groups: static LAG and LACP
- Equal load balancing in group
- Multi-chassis LAG
- BFD (Bidirectional Frowarding Detection) over LAG, single connec- tion failure detection (RFC 7130)
- Traffic mirroring - SPAN, RSPAN
L2 functions
- Providing Ethernet switching through the bridge domains and cross-connects
- IEEE bridging (IEEE 802.1d)
- VLAN (IEEE 802.1q)
- Q-in-Q (IEEE 802.1ad) with push/pop/swap/replace tag operations
- SpanningTree protocols (STP, RSTP, MSTP)
- LLDP
L3 protocols and functions
- Static IPv4, IPv6 Unicast Routing
- IS-IS
- OSPFv2, OSPFv3
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- BGP Route Reflector, BDP Additional Path
- Route filtering (routemap, prefix-list)
- BFD protocol for routing protocols and static routes
- IP FastReroute/Loop Free Alternate for OSPF/IS-IS
- VRRP (version 2), DHCP relay agent
- IPv4 ACL (access control lists) for transit traffic
- ECMP load balancing
Multicast management
- PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, Anycast RP
- IGMP v2/v3, SSM mapping
- MSDP
- IPv6 MLDv1, v2
- MPLS FUNCTIONS
- Multiprotocol extensions for BGP-4
- Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
- MPLS pseudowire with PW backup functionality
- L2VPN
- VPWS
- VPLS LDP signalling (draft-martini)
- VPLS BGP signalling (draft-kompella)
- L3VPN
- L3VPN for AFI/SAFI vpnv4 unicast and vpnv6 unicast
- L3VPN inter-AS option A
Quality of Service (QoS)
- Ingress policing, ingress/egress shaping
- SP and DeficitWRR queuing algorithms
- Rate limiting, Storm Control
- Up to 8 queues per logical interface, up to 32K queues per physical interface
Reliability functions
- Graceful Restart for routing protocols
- Non-stop forwarding
- Active and backup firmware images
- Ability to restore the previous firmware version during update
Management and monitoring
- Command Line Interface (CLI), SSH, Telnet for remote manage- ment
- SNMPv1, v2c for monitoring the device status
- NETCONF protocol
- Statistic data export (Netflow V9)
- Configuration backup and restore (local, FTP, SFTP, TFTP)
- RADIUS, TACACS+ authentication and authorization, accounting via TACACS+
- Remote software retrofit
- System parameters and resources monitoring
- Syslog
- Time synchronization, NTP, SNTP
- Control-plane protection and rate-limiting