The Cisco ASR
1000 Series is a class of midrange routers that offers convergence of network
services on highly scalable routing platforms. It delivers superior resiliency
with intelligent services and modularity to meet the long-term needs of both
enterprise and service provider applications.
The ASR 1000 Series is the first
system to use the Cisco Flow Processor, a
groundbreaking technology that offers superior multiprocessing, advanced memory
management, customized quality of service (QoS), and silicon-based service
delivery and programmability for emerging requirements.
The flexibility
of this processor allows you to integrate network services such as packet
encryption, packet inspection, application recognition, traffic differentiation,
and subscriber management on a single routing platform, the Cisco ASR 1000
Series Router, without using external network appliances or service modules.
ASR 1000 Series
Routers scale from Fast Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and from DS-0 to
OC 192/STM-64 with rich QoS features, allowing network operators to guarantee
bandwidth to mission-critical applications and improve overall application user
experiences.
Quick questions and answers help you know the Cisco
ASR 1000 family
Q: What models are included in
the ASR 1000 Series?
A: The
ASR 1000 Series includes seven models: the 1-rack-unit (1RU) ASR 1001-X, ASR
1001-HX, the 2RU ASR 1002-X, ASR 1002-HX, the 4RU ASR 1004, the 6RU ASR 1006
and ASR 1006-X, the 9RU ASR 1009-X, and the 13RU ASR 1013.
Table1 lists each model’s specifications.
Q: What are the key new items introduced with the ASR 1002-HX chassis compared to other
ASR 1000 Series
Routers?
A: The
ASR 1002-HX Series has 8 built-in 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports and 8 built-in
1-Gigabit Ethernet ports. The ASR 1001-HX Series has 4 built-in 10-Gigabit
Ethernet ports, 8 built-in 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and 4 built-in
configurable 10-Gigabit Ethernet or 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Further, both
ASR 1002-HX and ASR 1001-HX implement the software activation that is the same
software activation concept as seen on ASR 1001-X and other Cisco offerings;
for example, on the Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2)
routers. System performance can be realized up to 100 Gbps (for ASR 1002-HX)
and 60 Gbps (for ASR 1001- HX), through software activation of built-in ports
and Ethernet port adapter (EPA) ports (for ASR1002-HX).
Q: What new key items are
introduced with the ASR 1001-X chassis?
A: The
ASR 1001-X Series features two built-in 10-GigabitEthernet (GE) ports. In
addition, the ASR 1001-X has a network interface module (NIM) slot and a shared
port adapter (SPA) slot to expand connectivity options.
Q: What are the new key items
introduced with the ASR 1002-X chassis?
A: The
ASR 1002-X Series has 6 built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports. Further, the ASR 100-X
implements the software activation that is the same software activation concept
as seen on ASR 1001 and other Cisco offerings; for example, on Cisco ISR G2
routers. System performance can be set at 5 (default), 10, 20, and 36 Gbps
through software activation.
Q What are the major differences
between the ASR 1013 and ASR 1006?
A: The
ASR 1013 has expanded I/O capacity of up to 6 I/O slots (24 half-height SPAs),
and a throughput support capability of 360 Gbps total. This model is designed
to support either four 40-Gbps slots or two 100-Gbps slots in the future. The
ASR 1013 has four power supplies (AC or DC) organized in two redundant pairs.
Field-replaceable unit (FRU) placement is also different on the ASR 1013. From
the bottom up, there are three SIP slots, a route-processor slot, an
embedded-servicesprocessor (ESP) slot, another ESP slot, a route-processor
slot, and then another three SIP slots.
Q: What are the major components
of the ASR 1000 Series?
A: The
major components of the ASR 1000 Series include:
• ASR 1000
Series chassis
• ASR 1000
Series Route Processor (RP2 module, or a route processor, are integrated in ASR
1001- X, ASR 1002-X, ASR 1001-HX, and ASR 1002-HX chassis)
• ASR 1000
Series Embedded Services Processor (ESP20, ESP40, ESP100, and ESP200)
– Note:
The ESP is integrated into the ASR 1001-X, ASR 1001-HX, ASR 1002-HX, and ASR
1002-X chassis. The integrated ESP on the ASR 1002-X offers 5 Gbps by default,
and is upgradable through a software license to 10, 20, or 36 Gbps. The
integrated ESP on the ASR 1002-HX offers 100 Gbps by default. The integrated
ESP on the ASR 1001-HX offers 60 Gbps by default.
• ASR 1000
Series SPA Interface Processor (SIP40)
–Note: The
SIP is integrated on the ASR 1001-X and ASR 1002-X chassis.
• Cisco SPAs
• Cisco IOS XE
Software
Q: What are the typical
applications of the ASR 1000 Series in enterprise networks?
A: Examples
of enterprise applications include:
• Multiservice,
scalable, and highly secure enterprise headend for branch-office and
remote-user aggregation.
• Enterprise
private WAN router, WAN aggregation router, or Internet gateway router with
high-density Gigabit Ethernet or WAN link aggregation and 10-GE uplink
capability to support the performance of high-priority applications with
optimized treatment of all WAN traffic.
• High-speed
firewall to switch multiple Gigabits of traffic, while at the same time
performing firewall and other baseline features such as NetFlow, Network
Address Translation (NAT), and IPv6.
• Data Center
Interconnect (DCI) with supported functions such as Ethernet over Multiprotocol
Label Switching (EoMPLS), Ethernet over MPLS over generic routing encapsulation
(EoMPLSoGRE), or Ethernet over MPLS over generic routing encapsulation over IP
Security (EoMPLSoGREoIPsec).
Q: What are some typical
applications of the ASR 1000 Series in service provider networks?
A: Examples
of service provider applications include:
• Broadband
aggregation terminating up to 64,000 subscriber sessions while optionally
supporting features such as Cisco Unified Border Element (Service Provider
Edition), for voiceover-IP (VoIP) and video telepresence services,
hardwareassisted firewall for security, and Gigabit Ethernet or 10-GE or 100-GE
uplink capability.
• Interfacing
with the service provider’s voice and multimedia services directly at the edge.
No overlay network, network appliances, or service blades are required in this
solution for lower operating expenses (OpEx), lower capital expenditures
(CapEx), and flexible deployment models. The solution supports protected
signaling for both voice and video services and can enable 32,000 voice calls
concurrent with 200 Gbps of data traffic with accounting, firewall, and
callquality features enabled.
Q: What are the QoS capabilities
of the ASR 1000 Series?
A: The
ASR 1000 Series provides a very granular and flexible QoS architecture to help
service providers and enterprise customers manage their network performance
with respect to bandwidth, delay, jitter, and packet loss, which are critical
to optimizing application performance and meeting service-level agreements
(SLAs). The ASR 1000 Series supports multilevel hierarchical queuing, which
includes traffic classification; two-rate, three-color policing; Class-Based Weighted
Fair Queuing (CBWFQ); two low-latency queues; traffic shaping; and
congestion-avoidance techniques such as Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED).
The ASR 1000 Series provides queue and scheduling functions such as Low-Latency
Queuing (LLQ), bandwidth limiting, traffic shaping, and so on, across up to
464,000 queues on dedicated hardware; up to 4000 service policies; and three
levels of QoS hierarchy with queuing on the grandchild level.
Hardware
Q: What is the main difference
between the ASR 1000 Series ESP2.5, ESP5, and ESP20, ESP40, ESP100, and ESP200
processors?
A: All
ESPs are based on the Cisco Flow Processor for performing all data-plane
forwarding functions, such as MAC classification, Layers 2 and 3 forwarding,
QoS, ACL, VPN, and NetFlow.
The ASR 1000
Series ESP2.5 supports 2.5-Gbps bandwidth (integrated in the ASR 1001-X
chassis), and the ESP5 supports 5-Gbps bandwidth. The ESP20 supports 20-Gbps
bandwidth, the ESP40 supports 40-Gbps bandwidth, the ESP100 supports 100-Gbps
bandwidth, and the ESP200 supports 200 Gbps bandwidth.
The ASR 1000
Series ESP10-N does not support IPsec services. Refer to Table 3 for more
comparisons and specifications. The integrated ESP in the ASR 1001-X chassis
supports from 2.5 to 5, 10, 20 Gbps (upgradable through a software license with
software activation), whereas the integrated ESP in the ASR 1002-X chassis
supports from 5 to 10, 20, 36 Gbps.
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Q: What SPAs are supported on
the ASR 1000 Series?
A: Table4
lists the SPAs supported on the ASR 1000 Series. Additional SPAs will be added
in the future. For a current complete list of ASR 1000 SPA support, visit:
Time-based Cisco
IOS XE Software releases are available every 4 months.
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Table5 lists the maximum physical interface termination capacity of the ASR 1000 Series.
This data
assumes that all SPA slots are filled with the respective interface type.
Q: What is the expected performance of the ASR 1000 Series?
A: The
overall forwarding performance of the ASR 1000 Series depends on the ESP. The
overall control-plane performance of the ASR 1000 Series depends on both the
route processor and the ESP.
Table 6 lists the forwarding and encryption throughput performance numbers.
Table 6 lists the forwarding and encryption throughput performance numbers.
Table6. Cisco ASR 1000 ESP20, ESP40, ESP100, and ESP200 Performance Comparison
Q: What is the ACL processing capability of the ASR 1000 Series?
A: The
ASR 1000 Series processes ACLs in the ESPs. The ASR 1000 Series supports up to
4000 unique ACLs and up to 400,000 access control entries (ACEs) per system.
Power
Q: What system power-supply
options are available for the ASR 1000 Series?
A: The
ASR 1000 Series supports, by default, two power entry modules (PEMs) with
either AC receptacle or DC terminal block for redundancy. The two redundant
PEMs load-share the power between them. If an external power supply fails or
one PEM fails or is removed, the other PEM provides the entire power
requirements for the chassis.
Q: Can one AC and one DC power supply
be used together on the ASR 1000 Series?
A: No. The ASR 1000 Series supports
dual power supplies by default. However, the router can be used with either two
AC or two DC power supplies. The combination of one AC and one DC power supply
is not supported. Q What are the power ratings for the ASR 1000 Series? A Table
7 lists the power ratings.
Q: What are the power ratings for the ASR 1000 Series?
A: Table7 lists the power ratings.
Redundancy Support
Q: What are the redundancy and
resiliency features of ASR 1000 Series Routers?
A: The
ASR 1000 Series offers the following features:
• The ASR 1006,
ASR 1006-X, ASR 1009-X, and ASR 1013 support 1 + 1 active and standby
redundancy in dual route processor and dual ESP configurations. Switchover of
the route processor does not result in switchover of the ESP, and switchover of
the ESP does not result in switchover of the route processor.
• The ASR1001-X, ASR 1001-HX, ASR 1002-HX, ASR 1002-X, and ASR 1004 support dual Cisco
IOS Software redundancy with a single route-processor configuration. This
feature is not supported on the ASR 1006, ASR 1006-X, ASR 1009-X, or ASR 1013.
• ASR 1000
Series Routers support Nonstop Forwarding (NSF), Stateful Switchover (SSO),
ISSU, and online Insertion and removal (OIR).
Q: What other high-availability
features does the ASR 1000 Series support?
A: The
ASR 1001-X, ASR 1001-HX, ASR 1002-HX, ASR 1002-X, and ASR 1004 support dual
Cisco IOS Software redundancy, sub-package software upgrade and downgrade, and
NSF. For the ASR 1004, Cisco IOS Software redundancy requires 4 GB of DRAM on
the route processor 1 (ASR1000-RP1) and a High Availability license (Cisco IOS
Software redundancy license). For the ASR 1001-X, ASR 1001-HX, ASR 1002-HX, and
ASR 1002-X, Cisco IOS Software redundancy requires 8 GB of DRAM and the Cisco
IOS Software redundancy license. Note: The The ASR 1002-X come by default with
4 GB of DRAM, upgradable to 8 or 16 GB of DRAM. The ASR 1001-X and ASR 1001-HX
come by default with 8 GB of DRAM, upgradable to 16 GB of DRAM. The ASR 1002-HX
comes by default with 16 GB of DRAM, upgradable to 32 GB of DRAM.
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More about the
ASR 1000 Series’ performance, power, IOS XE Software, Redundancy Support, Ordering
Information you can refer to http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr-1000-series-aggregation-services-routers/q-and-a-c67-452124.pdf
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