Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers are designed to aggregate multiple WAN connections and network services, including encryption and traffic management, and forward them across WAN connections at line speeds ranging from 2.5 to 200 Gbps. These routers offer both hardware and software redundancy in an industry-leading high-availability design.

Cisco ASR 1002-HX Router

The latest addition to the Cisco ASR 1000 Series is the Cisco ASR 1002-HX router. This new router supports up to 100 Gbps in a 2-rack-unit (2RU) form factor and features 8 built-in 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports and 8 1-GE ports, with an Ethernet port adapter (EPA) slot for expansion.

Cisco IOS XE Software

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series supports Cisco IOS XE Software, a modular operating system with modular packaging, feature velocity, and powerful resiliency. The routers also feature Cisco Flow Processor technology, which accelerates 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.

Benefits for Customers

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers are ideal for enterprises experiencing explosive network traffic due to increasing usage of mobility, cloud networking, and video and collaboration. These routers consolidate various traffic streams and apply traffic management and redundancy properties to maintain consistent performance among enterprise sites and cloud locations.

Service providers can also benefit from the Cisco ASR 1000 Series by delivering high-performance services, such as DCI and branch-office server aggregation, to business customers. The routers can also be used to deploy hosted and managed services to business customers and multimedia services to residential customers.

For existing Cisco 7200 Series Router customers (end-of-sale), the Cisco ASR 1000 Series offers a simple migration to a new multiservice platform that delivers greater performance with the same design.