Upgrade Path for End of Life Cisco 5915 and Cisco 5940 Embedded Services Routers
XChange6300 Points the Way Forward
For customers facing discontinued support for the Cisco 5915 and Cisco 5940 Embedded Services Routers (ESRs), the XChange6300 bare‑metal router from X-ES is an ideal replacement for all your Cisco IOS-XE® networking and communications needs.
Maximize Networking Performance
The XChange6300 ESR is a conduction-cooled XMC/PMC router card that can plug into existing sockets or be used in standalone applications. Like the end-of-life Cisco routers, the XChange6300 extends Cisco’s industry-leading Mobile Ready Net technology to provide highly secure data, voice, and video communications to stationary and mobile network nodes across wired and wireless links. The XChange6300 can operate as a standalone Layer 3 router or bring Layer 3 capability to X-ES’ line of rugged managed Layer 2 embedded Ethernet switches, enabling a Layer 2 and Layer 3 single-slot solution.
Rugged and Mission-Ready
X-ES has differentiated the XChange6300 from other ESRs by designing the most rugged solution in the industry for Cisco IOS-XE® functionality. The XChange6300 boasts advanced ruggedization features and support, including leaded solder assembly to mitigate tin whiskering, ensuring persistent, mission-critical routing functionality in even the harshest environments. X-ES engineers can also offer configuration options to support unique project requirements, such as parylene conformal coating for added protection.
Long Lifecycle Support
The XChange6300 is also backed by X-ES’ Configuration Management Control process, which proactively monitors for components that are about to be discontinued and then offers the customer notifications, impact assessments, and the option for last-time buys of the obsolete component. Designed for customers with long product runways, X-ES offers the XChange6300 as a logical, dependable way to transition off the EOL Cisco 5915 and Cisco 5940 ESRs.
Cisco / X-ES Product Comparison
Cisco 5915
| Cisco IOS-XE® support | ✓ |
| Dimensions | 96 mm x 101 mm |
| Memory | 512 MB DRAM |
| Flash | 256 MB |
| Gigabit Ethernet | Two routed 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet ports, three switched 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet ports |
| Serial | One RS-232 serial port |
| Environmental | Conduction-cooled (-40°C to +85°C) |
XChange6300
| Cisco IOS-XE® support | ✓ |
| Dimensions | 149 mm x 74 mm, 10 mm stacking height |
| Memory | 4 GB DDR4 ECC SDRAM |
| Flash | 128 MB |
| Gigabit Ethernet | One 1000BASE-X or 2500BASE-X Ethernet port, two 1000BASE-X or 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports |
| Serial | One RS-232 or RS-422/485 serial port |
| Environmental | Conduction-cooled (-40°C to +85°C) |
Cisco 5940
| Cisco IOS-XE® support | ✓ |
| Dimensions | 100 mm x 160 mm |
| Memory | 1 GB DRAM |
| Flash | 256 MB |
| Gigabit Ethernet | Four 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports |
| Serial | One RS-232 serial port |
| Environmental | Conduction-cooled (-40°C to +85°C) |
XChange6300 Functionality and Features
X-ES has designed this ESR with the full array of Cisco IOS-XE® networking and communications capabilities to ensure a smooth transition from the Cisco 5915 or Cisco 5940.
Hardware Encryption Support
- Onboard hardware encryption processor supporting IP Security (IPsec)
- Secure Sockets Layer with transparent LAN services (SSL/TLS)
- Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
- Triple Digital Encryption Standard (3DES)
- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Routing Protocols
- Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- RIPv2
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
- Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- Cisco Discovery Protocol
- IP Policy Routing
- IP Multicast Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Versions 1 and 2
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Versions 1 and 2
- IP Multicast Load Splitting
- Cisco Group Management Protocol (GMP)
VLANs
- Up to 32 VLANs supported per router
IPv4 and IPv6
- IPv6 routing and Cisco Express Forwarding switching
- IPv6 QoS
- IPv6 tunneling support
- Zone-based Firewall for IPv6 traffic
Encapsulations
- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
- PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) client and server for Fast Ethernet
- 802.1q VLAN trunking support
- Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
- Additional protocol support
Telnet
- Asynchronous tunneling
- Storage Allocation and Coding (STAC) compression
- Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) header compression
Radio Aware Routing
- Optimizes IP routing over fixed or temporary radio networks
- Factors radio link metrics into route calculations
- Immediately recognizes and adapts to changes in network neighbor status
- Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP)
- Router Radio Control Protocol (R2CP)
- RFC 5578 (authored by Cisco®)
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- OSPFv3 enhancements for mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile IP
- Home agent and mobile router redundancy
- Mobile router preferred interfaces
- Mobile router reverse tunneling
- Mobile router asymmetric links
- Mobile router static and dynamic networks
- Static co-located care-of address
- Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server
- Cisco Mobile Networks Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal over Mobile IP
- Support for Mobile IP tunnel templates, allowing configuration of IP Multicast and IPsec on Mobile IP tunnels
- Mobile IP foreign agent local routing optimization
Suite-B Support
- Suite-B support in IOS-XE® SW crypto including Suite-B-GCM-128, Suite-B-GCM-256, Suite-B-GMAC-128, Suite-B-GMAC-256 as described in RFC-4869
Authentication
- Route and router authentication
- Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)
- Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
- Microsoft CHAP (MS-CHAP) local password
- IP basic and extended access lists
- Time-based access control lists (ACLs)
Secure Connectivity
- Secure collaborative communications with Group Encrypted Transport VPN, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), or Enhanced Easy VPN
Integrated Threat Control
- Responding to sophisticated network attacks and threats using Cisco IOS-XE® Firewall, Cisco IOS-XE® Zone-based Firewall, Cisco IOS-XE® IPS, Cisco IOS-XE® Content Filtering, and Flexible Packet Matching (FPM)
Identity Management
- Intelligently protecting endpoints using technologies such as authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure (PKI)
Security Protocols
- IP Security (IPsec)
- Secure Sockets Layer with transparent LAN services (SSL/TLS)
- Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
- Triple Digital Encryption Standard (3DES)
- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Traffic Management
- QoS
- Generic traffic shaping
- Class-based Ethernet matching and mobile access routing (802.1p Class of Service [CoS])
- Committed access rate
- Flow-based Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)
- Class-based Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ)
- Low Latency Queuing (LLQ)
- Priority Queuing
- Link Fragmentation and Interleaving (LFI)
- Traffic Policing Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
Unified Communications
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express with support for up to 48 phones
Management Services
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Versions 2 and 3
- Telnet
- Console port
- RADIUS
- TACACS+
- Cisco Service Assurance Agent
- Syslog
- Response Time Reporter
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) Client
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) Client and Server
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Client and Server
- DHCP Relay
- Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
Tool Command Language (Tcl) Scripts
- Tcl script support
Address Conservation
- NAT Many-to-One (Port Address Translation [PAT])
- NAT Many-to-Many (Multi-NAT)
- DHCP Client Address Negotiation
- Easy IP Phase I
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