Skip Content
Product image for Ciena's 5168 product

5168

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 and benefits

  1. Temperature-hardened (-40°C to +65°C) small form factor 1RU (11.81"/300mm)

  2. 18 CPRI (modes 3, 5, 7, 8) or 1/10/25GbE and 14 x 1/10/25GbE (32 ports total)

  3. L1/L2/L3 low latency switching

  4. Service isolation using FlexEthernet (FlexE)

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

  6. CPRI to O-RAN fronthaul including L1 offload processing

Insights

Data sheet

5164

Ciena’s 5164 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, m...

Download

Data sheet

5166

Ciena’s 5166 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, m...

Download

White Paper

New Network Design for Transporting 5G Converged Traffic

Holistically speaking, a mobile network is a massive wireline network with radios han...

Download

White Paper

Laying the 5G Foundation with an Evolved Mobile Transport Network

Mobile Network Operators are embarking on a phased deployment of 5G. This paper discu...

Download