The 5164 router is a high-performance, IP routing platform that supports both 4G and 5G networks

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Ciena’s 5164 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul (xHaul) networks onto a common, simpler infrastructure. With dense 1/10/25GbE to 100/200GbE aggregation and support for both hard network slicing (FlexEthernet) and soft network slicing (Segment Routing), the temperature-hardened 5164 is the ideal platform to simplify and de-risk the unique 4G to 5G journeys of mobile and wholesale operators.

Features

Temperature-hardened (-40°C to +65°C) with for temperature-challenged or space-constrained locations

32 x 1/10/25GbE and 4 x 100/200GbE fixed ports

L1/L2/L3 low latency switching

Service isolation using FlexEthernet (FlexE)

Carrier Ethernet, IP routing, SR-MPLS, and SRv6 ready

Hardware-assisted routing and switching OAM scaled to deliver 25GbE services with guaranteed SLA differentiation

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Specs

+ Interfaces

Ethernet Ports

32 x 1GbE/10GbE/25GbE SFP28 ports
4 x 100GbE/200GbE QSFP-DD Ports
- OIF FlexEthernet (FlexE) Implementation Agreement v1.1 and v2.0
PON SFP+ Support

Other

1 x USB-C Off-switch memory
1 x USB-C Console
1 x RJ45 Time-of-Day (ToD + 1PPS in/out)
1 x SMB Phase input (1 pps or 10MHz in/out)
1 x SMB GNSS antenna
1 x RJ45 Management (MGMT)

Ethernet

IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) prioritization
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridging (Q-in-Q) VLAN full S-VLAN range
VLAN tunneling (Q-in-Q) for Transparent LAN Services (TLS)
Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling
IEEE 802.1ax Link Aggregation (LAG): Active/Active; Active/ Standby
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Jumbo frames up to 9216 bytes
IEEE 802.3-2018 IEEE Standard for Ethernet and supporting following rates
- IEEE 802.3z-1998 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ab-1999 1000Base-T via copper SFP
- IEEE 802.3ae-2002 10Gb/s
- IEEE 802.3ba-2010 100Gb/s
- IEEE 802.3by-2016 25Gb/s
- IEEE 802.3bs-2017 200Gb/s

+ Carrier Ethernet OAM
- IEEE 802.1ab-2006 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- IEEE 802.1ag-2007 Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
- IEEE 802.3ah-2004 EFM Link-fault OAM
- ITU-T Y.1731 Performance Monitoring
+ Synchronization
- External Timing Interfaces
- ITU-T G.703 Frequency in or out (10MHz)
- ITU-T G.703 1pps and ToD in or out
- Integrated GNSS receiver
- ITU-T G.8262/G.8264 EEC option1 and option2
- ITU-T G.8275.1 full timing support T-GM, T-BC and T-TSC
- G.8273.2 clock, Class C
- G.8275.2 Telecom Profile*
- Stratum 3E oscillator
+ Networking Protocols
- ISO10598 IS-IS intra-domain routing protocol
- OSPF Segment Routing extension
- OSPF TI-LFA Topology Independent Fast
- Reroute using Segment Routing
- RFC1195 Use of OSI Is-Is for Routing in TCP/ IP and Dual Environments
- RFC1997 BGP Community Attribute
- RFC2328 OSPF Version 2
- RFC 3630 Traffic Engineering (TE) extensions to OSPF Version 2
- RFC 4577 OSPF as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks
- BGP Prefix Independent Convergence
- EVPN FXC draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpwsfxc-03.txt
- RFC2698 A Two Rate Three Color Marker
- RFC2865 Remote Authentication Dial in User Service (RADIUS)
- RFC3031 Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
- RFC3032 MPLS label stack encoding
- RFC6478 Pseudowire Status for Static Pseudowires
- RFC7769 Media Access Control (MAC) Address Withdrawal over Static Pseudowire
- RFC4762 : Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) Signaling
- Hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS)
- RFC6073 : Segmented Pseudowire
- RFC 4664 Framework of L2VPN (VPLS/VPWS)
- RFC 5654 MPLS-Transport Profile (TP)
- RFC3107 Support BGP carry Label for MPLS
- RFC4271 A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
- RFC4360 BGP Extended Communities Attribute
- RFC4364 BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- RFC4456 BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
- RFC4632 Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan
- RFC4760 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
- RFC4762 Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) Signaling (HVPLS)
- RFC5004 Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to Another
- RFC5036 LDP Specification
- RFC5037 Experience with the LDP protocol
- RFC5301 Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS
- RFC5302 Domain-Wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS
- RFC5303 Three-Way Handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies
- RFC5309 Point-to-Point Operation over LAN in Link State Routing Protocols
- RFC5396 Textual Representation of Autonomous System (AS) Numbers
- RFC5398 Autonomous System (AS) Number Reservation for Documentation Use
- RFC5492 Capabilities Advertise with BGP-4
- RFC5561 LDP Capabilities
- RFC5668 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
- RFC6241 Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
- RFC6310 Pseudowire (PW) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Message Mapping
- RFC6793 BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
- RFC7432 EVPN VPWS/VPLS
- RFC7737 Label Switched Route (LSP) Ping and Traceroute Reply Mode Simplification
- RFC 4448 Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet over MPLS Networks (PW over MPLS)
- RFC 4665 Service Requirement of L2 VPN
- RFC 4762 VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service) and Hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS)
- RFC 6391 Flow-Aware Transport of Pseudowires over an MPLS Packet Switched Network
- RFC 8469 Ethernet Control Word
- RFC 8029: Detecting Multiprotocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data-Plane Failures
- RFC 8287: Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping/ Traceroute for Segment Routing (SR)
- RFC6426: MPLS On-Demand Connectivity Verification and Route Tracing
- RFC7911 Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP
- RFC8214 Virtual Private Wire Service Support in Ethernet VPN
- SR-MPLS TI-LFA Topology Independent Fast Reroute using Segment Routing draftietfrtgwg-segment-routing-ti-lfa-03
- RFC 5880 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- RFC 5881 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
- RFC 5883 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Multihop Paths
- RFC 5654 MPLS-Transport Profile (TP)
- RFC 5884 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
+ Network Management
- Alarm Management and Monitoring Configuration
- Event and Alarm Notification/Generation Comprehensive Management
- Via CLI Management
- Via Netconf/YANG Models
- gRPC-based Streaming telemetry
- IPv4 and IPv6 Management Support
- IPv4 Management ACL (in-band)
- IPv6 Management ACL (in-band)
- RADIUS, AAA
- RFC 2131 DHCP Client
- RFC 3315 DHCPv6 Client
- RFC 6614 RadSec Client
- RFC 5425 Syslog over TLS
- SNMPv2 Trap
- SNMPv2 GET
- RFC 3046 DHCP Relay
- RFC 5905 NTP Client
- Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Secure Shell (SSHv2)
- RFC 8572 Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning (SZTP)
- Software upgrade via FTP, SFTP
- Syslog Accounting
- TACACS + AAA
- Web GUI

+ Physical Characteristics

Dimensions

17.36"(W) x 9.96"(D) x 1.73"(H)
441mm (W) x 253mm (D) x 44mm (H)

Weight

AC variant: 11.2 lbs; 5.2 kg
DC variant: 11.2 lbs; 5.2 kg

Power

DC input: -48 Vdc (nominal)
AC input: 100Vac, 240 Vac (nominal)
Consumption: 5164-902/903: 150 (w) nominal, 290 (w) max.
ETSI EN 300 132-2
ETSI EN 300 132-3

Standards Compliance

Emissions and Immunity
- CISPR 24 Class A
- CISPR 32 Class A
- CISPR 35 Class A
- ETSI EN 300 386
- ETSI EN 301 489-1
- ETSI EN 301 489-19
- ETSI EN 303 413
- ETSI EN 55032
- ETSI EN 55035
- GR-1089 Issue 6
- FCC Part 15 Subpart B, Class A
- Industry Canada ICES-003 Class A
- VCCI Class A
NEBS (Network Equipment-Building System)
- LEVEL 3 certification
- GR-63 Issue 5
Safety
- ANSI/UL 60950-1 2nd edition / ETSI EN 60950-1, A1:2011 and A2:2014
- CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1, Amd 1:2011, Amd 2:2014
- EN 62368-1:2014+A11:2017 and
- CSA/UL 62368-1:2014
- IEC 60825-1
- IEC 60825-2

Environmental

ETSI EN 300-019-2-1
ETSI EN 300-019-2-2
ETSI EN 300-119-3
GR-3108 Class 2 / ETSI EN 300-019-3-3 Class 3.2
NEBS Level 3 CO (GR-63 Core)
RoHS2 Directive (2011/65/EU)
WEEE 2012/19/EU

Operating Temperature

-40°F to +149°F (-40°C to +65°C)

Storage Temperature

40°F to +158°F (-40°C to +70°C)

Humidity

Non-condensing 5% to 90%

+ Service Security
- Broadcast Containment Egress Port Restriction
- Hardware-based DOS Attack Prevention Layer 2, 3, 4 Protocol Filtering
- User Access Rights Local user authorization

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