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Ciena’s 5168 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 5168 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) small form factor 1RU (11.81"/300mm)

18 CPRI (modes 3, 5, 7, 8) or 1/10/25GbE and 14 x 1/10/25GbE (32 ports total)

L1/L2/L3 low latency switching

Service isolation using FlexEthernet (FlexE)

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

CPRI to O-RAN fronthaul including L1 offload processing

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Specs

+ Interfaces

Ethernet/CPRI Ports

14 x 1GbE/10GbE/25GbE SFP28 ports
18 x CPRI (modes 3/5/7/8) including L1 offload or 18 x 1GbE/10GbE/25GbE SFP28 ports
4 x 100GbE/200GbE QSFP56/QSFP28 ports
-OIF FlexEthernet (FlexE) Implementation Agreement v1.1 and v2.0

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 (1PPS or 10MHz in/out)
1 x SMB GNSS antenna
1 x RJ45 Management (MGMT)

Ethernet

IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridging (Q-in-Q) VLAN full S-VLAN range
IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) prioritization
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
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 and 400Gb/s
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling
Link Aggregation (LAG): Active/Active; Active/ Standby
Jumbo frames to 9216 bytes
VLAN tunneling (Q-in-Q) for Transparent LAN Services (TLS)

Fronthaul

IEEE 1914.3 RoE transport mapper type 0 & 1
CPRI to O-RAN evolution with L1 offload
Configurable CPRI rates supporting modes 3,5,7, and 8
CPRI interworking function*

Carrier Ethernet OAM

Carrier Ethernet OAM
EVC Ping (IPv4)
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 (2.048MHz, and 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.8275.2 clock, Class C
G.8275.2 Telecom Profile*
Stratum 3E oscillator

Time-Sensitive Networking

*IEEE P802.1Qcc Stream Reservation Protocol(SRP) Enhancements and Performance Improvements
*IEEE P802.1Qci Per-Stream Filtering and Policing
*P802.1Qcr Bridges and Bridge Networks Amendment: Asynchronous Traffic Shaping
*P802.1Qav Forwarding and Queuing Enhancements for Time-Sensitive Streams

+ Networking Protocols
- BGP Prefix Independent Convergence
- EVPN FXC draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpwsfxc-03.txt
- ISO10598 IS-IS intra-domain routing protocol
- OSFP Segment Routing extension
- OSFP 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
- 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
- RFC3107 Support BGP carry Label for MPLS
- RFC3630 Traffic Engineering (TE) extensions to OSFP Version 2
- RFC4271 A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
- RFC4360 BGP Extended Communities Attribute
- RFC4364 BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- RFC4448 Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet over MPLS Networks) (PW over MPLS)
- RFC4456 BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
- RFC4577 OSFP as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BFP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks
- RFC4632 Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan
- RFC4665 Service Requirement of L2 VPN
- 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
- RFC5654 MPLS-Transport Profie (TP)
- RFC5668 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
- RFC5880 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- RFC5881 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
- RFC5883 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Multihop Paths
- RFC5884 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
- RFC6241 Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
- RFC6310 Pseudowire (PW) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Message Mapping
- RFC6391 Flow-Aware Transport of Psuedowires over an MPLS Packet Switched Network
- RFC6426: MPLS On-Demand Connectivity Verification and Route Tracing
- RFC6478 Pseudowire Status for Static Pseudowires
- 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
- RFC7769 Media Access Control (MAC) Address Withdrawal over Static Pseudowire
- 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
- SRv6 Micro Segments draft-filsfilsspringnet-pgm-extension-srv5-usid-04
+ 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
- RFC2131 DHCP Client
- RFC3046 DHCP Relay
- RFC3315 DHCPv6 Client
- RFC5905 NTP Client
- RFC8572 Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning (SZTP)
- Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Secure Shell (SSHv2)
- Software upgrade via FTP, SFTP
- Syslog Accounting
- TACACS +
- Web GUI

+ Physical Characteristics

Dimensions

17.5"(W) x 11.81"(D) x 1.75"(H)
444mm (W) x 300mm (D) x 44mm (H)

Power

DC input: -48 Vdc (nominal)
AC input: 100Vac, 240 Vac (nominal)
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 Class A
- Industry Canada ICES-003 Class A
- VCCI Class A

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 2002/96/EC

Operating Temperature

-40oF to +149oF (-40oC to +65oC)

Storage Temperature

-40oF to +158oF (-40oC to +70oC)

Humidity

Non-condensing 5% to 90%

Safety

ANSI/UL 60950-1 2nd edition / ETSI EN 60950-1
CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1
IEC 60825-1
IEC 60825-2

+ 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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Features

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Specs

Ethernet/CPRI Ports

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Ethernet

Fronthaul

Carrier Ethernet OAM

Time-Sensitive Networking

Dimensions

Power

Standards Compliance

Environmental

Operating Temperature

Storage Temperature

Humidity

Safety

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