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NCS2K-400G-XP is the Cisco NCS 2000 400 Gbps XPonder line card, a two-slot-wide DWDM card with 400 Gbps of client capacity and 400 Gbps of trunk capacity. The spare is NCS2K-400G-XP=, a 400G CFP2 MR xponder. Up to three cards fit one NCS 2006 shelf and up to seven fit an NCS 2015 shelf.
The two CFP2-based trunk ports each carry 100, 150 or 200 Gbps on a single carrier, using QPSK, 8-QAM or 16-QAM modulation set in software, with soft-decision FEC at 15% and 25% overhead. On the client side there are six QSFP+ ports for 40 Gbps or 4 x 10 Gbps optics and four QSFP28/QSFP+ ports for 100 Gbps, 40 Gbps or 4 x 10 Gbps optics.
The card accepts any mix of 40 x 10G, 8 x 40GE plus 8 x 10GE, and 4 x 100G signals up to 400 Gbps, and it can groom them into two 200 Gbps wavelengths or a 400G dual-wavelength super-channel. An embedded OTN switch handles ODU-2 and ODU-4 switching between client and trunk ports. With 200 Gbps 16-QAM, one fiber pair can carry 25.4 Tbps.
| Designation | NCS2K-400G-XP (spare NCS2K-400G-XP=) |
| Card width | 2 slots |
| Client capacity | 400 Gbps |
| Trunk capacity | 400 Gbps |
| Trunk ports | 2 x CFP2 DWDM, 100/150/200 Gbps |
| Modulation | QPSK, 8-QAM, 16-QAM |
| FEC | SD-FEC, 15% and 25% overhead |
| Client ports | 6 x QSFP+ and 4 x QSFP28/QSFP+ |
| Client mixes | 40 x 10G, 8 x 40GE + 8 x 10GE, 4 x 100G |
| OTN switching | ODU-2/ODU-4 |
| Shelf capacity | 3 cards per NCS 2006, 7 per NCS 2015 |