Specifications

Table 8. VEP4600 processor features (continued)
Feature Specification
• One for the BMC
USB ports
• Two USB Type-A receptacle female ports supporting USB 3.0
with maximum data rates of 640 Mbps
• One USB Type-B receptacle female port used as a console
port. You can connect a laptop to this port using a standard
male USB-A to a standard male USB-B cable
Console ports
• Two serial ports for system CPU access: An RJ-45 and a USB-
B console port. The USB-B port acts as the console port. The
terminal settings are the same for both.
• One serial port available for system BMC access: An RJ-45
console port.
• The terminal settings are the same for the USB-B port and the
console port:
○ 115200 baud rate
○ No parity
○ 8 data bits
○ One stop bit
○ Flow control disabled by default
○ When the USB-B port is connected, it becomes the primary
connection. The system then sends all messages to the
USB-B port.
PSUs The PSUs are located opposite to the I/O-side. Depending on the
configuration you select, the platform ships with one or two AC
PSUs.
Fans Depending on the configuration that you select, the platform ships
with four or five field replaceable fan trays.
uCPE
Universal customer premise equipment (uCPE) is a disaggregated hardware-based solution that supports NFV-like workloads at the edge,
such as the customer or branch. The device is a remotely manageable platform that service providers can deploy, modify, or delete VNFs
from a customer site over a wide area network (WAN).
Figure 3. uCPE
Table 9. uCPE advantages
Current model uCPE
Proprietary architecture, disjointed solution, and hardware that
results in high total cost of ownership
Open architecture and commercial off-the-shelf hardware
Complex operation model that cannot scale with growing demand. Agile technology and services
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