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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers provide a Software Defined WAN platform that aggregates multiple WAN connections and network services including encryption and traffic management, and forward them across WAN connections at line speeds from 2.5 to 200 Gbps. The routers contain both hardware and software redundancy in an industry-leading high-availability design.
The latest additions to the Cisco ASR 1000 Series are the Cisco ASR 1002-HX Router and the Cisco ASR 1001-HX Router. Both new routers support up to 100 Gbps in a 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) and 60 Gbps in a 1-Rack-Unit (1RU) form factor, respectively. The ASR 1002-HX has 8 built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports and 8 1 GE ports, with the Ethernet Port Adapter (EPA) slot for expansion. The ASR 1001-HX has 4 built-in 10 GE ports, 8 1 GE ports, and 4 configurable 10 GE or 1 GE ports. The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor 3 is the newest addition to the modular control plane engines in the Cisco ASR 1000 Series. The Route Processor 3 adds more options for higher performance, memory, and storage to the ASR 1000 Series.
The Cisco ASR 1000 Series supports Cisco IOS XE Software, a modular operating system with modular packaging, feature velocity, and powerful resiliency. The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Embedded Services Processors (ESPs), which are based on Cisco Flow Processor technology, accelerate many advanced features such as crypto-based access security; Network Address Translation (NAT), thread defense with Cisco Zone-Based Firewall (ZBFW), Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE), and a diverse set of Data-Center-Interconnect (DCI) features. These services are implemented in Cisco IOS XE Software without the need for additional hardware support.
Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers sit at the edge of your enterprise data center or large office connecting to the WAN, as well as in service provider Points Of Presence (POPs). The Cisco ASR 1000 Series will benefit the following types of customers:
● Enterprises experiencing explosive network traffic as mobility, cloud networking, and video and collaboration usage increase: Cisco ASRs consolidate these various traffic streams and apply traffic management and redundancy properties to them to maintain consistent performance among enterprise sites and cloud locations.
● Network service providers needing to deliver high-performance services, such as DCI and branch-office server aggregation, to business customers: Service providers can also use the multi-service routers to deploy hosted and managed services to business and multimedia services to residential customers.
● Existing Cisco 7200 Series Router (end-of-sale) customers looking for simple migration to a new multiservice platform that delivers greater performance with the same design.
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High availability |
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Redundant hardware components and power supplies |
● These components provide system and business continuity.
● The ASR 1006, ASR 1006-X, ASR 1009-X, and ASR 1013 have redundant route processors and ESPs.
● The ASR 1001-X, ASR 1002-X, ASR 1001-HX, ASR 1002-HX, and ASR1004 have redundant instances of Cisco IOS XE Software.
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Stateful intrachassis redundancy |
● Redundant hardware combined with modular software contains faults to prevent system wide failure.
● Redundancy across routers is enabled by pairing routers that act as backup for each other. The routers offer 99.999-percent (“five-nines”) availability for consistent, high-performance user application experiences.
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In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) support |
● You don’t need to schedule downtime windows; changes are made while the system keeps on working, with nonstop routing availability.
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Cisco IOS XE Software Sub-package Mode |
● You can upgrade individual software components in less time.
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Scalable capacity and throughput |
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Cisco Flow Processor-based platform |
● Advanced services can operate at high speeds without the need for additional hardware or blades.
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Hardware acceleration |
● Features such as Quality of Service (QoS), cryptography, and Access Control Lists (ACLs) are processed in hardware.
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Control- and forwarding-plane separation |
● You can scale control and data planes independently of each other.
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Investment protection |
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Software modularity |
● You can mix and match the services that best meet your business needs; you won’t “waste” investments on capabilities you don’t need.
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Pay-as-you-grow licensing with “-X” models |
● When you need greater throughput, you simply activate it with a change in software license, rather than having to expend capital for additional hardware.
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Cisco Shared Port Adapters (SPAs) |
● You can reuse your investment in network I/O across platforms.
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Cisco Network Interface Modules (NIMs) |
● You can reuse your investment in network I/O across platforms.
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