Quick Questions Help You Know the Cisco ASR 1000 Series

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.

Table3. Cisco ASR 1000 ESP Processors: Comparison and Specifications

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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:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/shared_port_adapters/install_upgrade/ASR1000/asr_sip_spa_hw/ASRintro.html  

Time-based Cisco IOS XE Software releases are available every 4 months.

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Table4. Shared Port Adapters for the Cisco ASR 1000 Series

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.

Table5. Maximum Number of Physical Interfaces Terminated on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series

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.

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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