MPLS router ME5000

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Key features

Reliable and high perfomance solution
Wide support for MPLS switching mechanisms
Redundant power supply

ME series routers are multifunctional devices with a high port density intended for use in provider networks as aggregation routers and IP/MPLS network edge routers. This solution can be used to organize operator’s points of presence when providing data services for large customers with high reliability requirements.

ME series routers have unified software and management interfaces. In addition to traffic routing and switching, the main device functions are a wide support for MPLS switching mechanisms, including MPLS Layer3 VPN, VPLS (Kompella/Martini), VPWS with pseudowire backup capabilities, Multicast-traffic routing with support for PIM-SM/PIM-SSM/MSDP/Anycast PIM protocols, as well as extensive QoS capabilities. This set of functions allows to use devices as network edge routers for termination of client services.

Fault tolerance of devices is ensured by redundant power supply "1+1" (modular ME5000 routers are equipped with 2 DC feeders -48V instead of redundant power modules) and by redundant fan modules. All redundant units are hot-swappable.

ME5000 is a high performance modular router with a hardware architecture that provides flexible scaling and the ability of hardware configuration for various requirements both in terms of bandwidth and types of network interfaces. ME5000 router modules are installed in the chassis — standard 19" eurorack 15U. The chassis has 2 slots for fabric and management cards (FMC) and 12 slots for line cards (LC).

ME5100S and ME5200S routers with hardware support for network synchronization and the SyncE protocol, equipped with dedicated SMB interfaces for I/O synchronization signals (10 MHz). The devices can be used on converged networks of mobile operators as a Mobile Backhaul transport.

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Performance

FMC16 switching fabric perfomance - 1.4 Tbps
Maximum switching fabric perfomance - Up to 2.8 Tbps with two FMC16 modules
RAM - 16 GB on FMC16 module
Maximum bandwidth per SLOT:
- Up to 138 Gbps with one FMC16 module
- Up to 276 Gbps with two FMC16 modules
- Line modules provide data processing at wire speed with 256-byte packets 0 and 11 slots have 46 Gbps bandwidth with one FMC16 module or 92 Gbps with two FMC16 modules
Routing and management modules - Up to 2 FMC modules per chassis
Number of fabric and management modules - Up to 2 FMC modules per chassis
Number of line modules - Up to 12 LC modules per chassis
Module orientation - Vertical
Redundancy and reliability:
- FMC modules redundancy Software redundancy
- Distributed power supply scheme, two feeders Fan modules redundancy

Resources

Queues - Up to 96K per line module
FIB size:
- Up to 1M IPv4/512K IPv6 routes when using LC18XGE
- Up to 2M IPv4/1.3M IPv61 routes when using LC20XGE and LC8XLGE (FIB capacity depends on the prefix length)
- The resource is shared with ARP tables and IPv6 ND cache
MAC address table:
- Up to 262144 per line module for LC18XGE
- Up to 750000 per line module for LC20XGE, LC8XLGE
- The resource is shared with MPLS switching tables and elements of single-hop BFD sessions
RIB size - Defined by free RAM capacity
Logical interfaces:
- Up to 16K per device
- Up to 4K per line module for LC18XGE
- Up to 8K per line module for LC20XGE and LC8XLGE
MPLS VPN connections (L2/L3 service tunnels)
- Up to 12K per device (when LC18XGE is used in the system)
- Up to 16K per device (when using only LC20XGE and LC8XLGE)
- The resource is shared with L3VPN/ARP interfaces
MPLS LSPs (transport tunnels):
- Up to 6K per line card when using LC18XGE
- Up to 16K per line card when using only LC8XGE/LC20XGE
ARP table
- Up to 20K when using LC18XGE
- Up to 57K when using LC8XGE/LC20XGE
VRFs (MPLS L3VPN) - Up to 1000 (or up to 128 while running instances of BGP processes in each of the VRFs)

Fabric and management modules

FMC16

Ports
- 2 × 1GbE (RJ-45) management ports
- RS-232 (RJ-45) console port
Performance - 1.4Tbps

Line modules

LC18XGE

Ports - 18 × 10Gbps (SFP+)
Performance - 180 Gbps, 350 Mpps

LC20XGE

Ports - 20x10Gbps (SFP+)
Performance - 200Gbps 720Mpps

LC8XLGE

Ports - 4x40GE (QSFP) + 4x100GE/40GE (QSFP28)
Performance - 560Gbps 720Mpps

Physical specifications

Case ventilation
- Front-to-back airflow
- 2 hot-swappable redundant fan modules
Power supply sources - Two DC feeders 36–72 V
Maximum power consumption - 4200 W
Operating temperature range - From 0 to 45 °C
Weight:
- Chassis assembly without LC/FMC— 46.7 kg
- FMC16 — 3.4 kg
- LC18XGE — 3.6 kg
- LC20XGE — 3.7 kg
- LC8XLGE — 3.9 kg
Dimensions (WхHхD) - 487 x 661 x 495 mm

Interfaces functions

Link aggregation groups: static LAG and LACP
Tunnel interfaces with IP-GRE and IP-IP support
IP unnumbered interfaces, Proxy ARP functionality
Layer 3 interfaces (Bridge-domain Virtual Interfaces, BVI)
Equal load balancing in group
Multi-chassis LAG
BFDoverLAG support, single connection failure detection (RFC 7130)
Traffic mirroring — SPAN, RSPAN
SyncE protocol support

L2 functions

Providing Ethernet switching through 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 commands
Spanning Tree protocols (STP, RSTP, MSTP)
DHCP Snooping for bridge domains
LLDP protocol

L3 protocols and functions

IPv4, IPv6 Static Unicast Routing
IS-IS protocol
OSPFv2, OSPFv3
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
BGP Route Reflector, BDP Additional Path
Route filtering (routemap, prefix-list)
Policy-based routing, PBR
IP unnumbered interfaces
BFD for routing protocols and static routes
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
VRF
Inter-VRF routing

Multicast management

PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, Anycast RP
IGMP v2/v3, SSM mapping
MSDP
MulticastVPN over mLDP
VRF-lite technology, including for all protocols (PIM/IGMP/MSDP)

MPLS funtions

Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
LDP FRR
MLDP
LDP authentication (MD5)
RSVP-TE: automatic tunneling with a given bandwidth requirement, semi-automatic tunneling with indication of intermediate nodes
RSVP-TE authentication
RSVP-TE FRR (detour, facility)
RSVP-TE end-to-end protection
RSVP-TE auto-bandwidth
Multiprotocol extensions for BGP-4
BGP labeled unicast
MPLS pseudowire with PW backup
MPLS FAT PW (flow-aware transport)
MPLS L2VPN
- VPWS
- VPLS LDP signalling (”Martini”)
- VPLS BGP autodiscovery/signalling (”Kompella”)
- L2VPN Inter-AS option C
MPLS L3VPN
- L3VPN for AFI/SAFI vpnv4 unicast and vpnv6 unicast
- BGP 6VPE
- L3VPN inter-AS option A, option C
- Per-vrf label
LSP ping and LSP traceroute

QoS

Ingress policing, egress policing/shaping
Strict priority (SP) and Deficit weighted round-robin (DWRR) queue scheduling algorithms
Up to 8 queues per logical interface, one SP queue
QoS queue counters
Weighted random early detection (WRED)
Queue limit and burst size setting
Traffic classification based on the 802.1p, MPLS TC, IP DSCP fields with the ability to remark the corresponding fields
QoS marking and handling based on access control lists (ACLs)
Storm Control

Reliability functions

Management module redundancy feature; module fault detection time is 300 ms max
Synchronization of FIB/ARP tables between management modules
Graceful Restart for routing protocols
Non-stop forwarding
In-service Software Upgrade
Storage of two firmware versions on the internal drive
Ability to restore the previous firmware version during update

Management and monitoring

Command Line Interface (CLI), SSH, Telnet for remote control
SNMPv1/v2c/v3 for device status monitoring
NETCONF protocol
Static data export (Netflow v9, v5, IPFIX)2
Configuration backup and restore (local, FTP, SFTP, TFTP)
RADIUS, TACACS+ authentication and authorization; TACACS+ accounting
Remote firmware change
System parameters and resources monitoring
Syslog
Clock Synchronization, NTP, SNTP protocols
Control-plane filtering
Ability to limit the speed of traffic interception on the CPU
ELTEX IP SLA

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Descriptions

Data Sheet

Documentations

Installation Guide. Firmware version 3.0.0

Downloads

Operational lifetime of the ELTEX equipment

Regardless of the operational lifetime stage, Eltex provides a 12 months warranty on all its telecommunication equipment.
During the warranty period the manufacturer ensures technical support and free-of-charge repair at the Enterprise which is situated in Novosibirsk.
As part of the warranty service, technical support is provided on the first-in first-out principle.
The priority support packages of 8/5 and 27/7 types are subjects to additional charges.