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Dive into Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers

Product Overview 

Cisco is redefining state-of-the-art edge router technology with the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. These routers are an arrangement of mid-range switches that build up an exciting cost-to-execution class offering. The deployment of this series benefits both specialist co-ops and enterprise IT ventures. 

For service providers, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers facilitate flexible, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of complex consumer and business services. For enterprises, these routers deliver a highly reliable, high-performance WAN edge solution where information, communication, collaboration, and commerce converge. The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers accelerate services by offering outstanding performance and resiliency with optimized, intelligent services. Other key features of this router series include: 

  • Newly established benchmark for price-to-performance offerings in the enterprise advanced routing, service provider edge, and broadband aggregation segments 
  • Facilitates significant network architectural innovations in areas such as secure WAN aggregation, managed customer premises equipment (CPE) services, and service provider edge services 
  • Decreases working costs (OpEx) and capital consumptions (CapEx) by encouraging overseen or facilitated benefits with indistinguishable models and working conditions  
asr 1004 series at pivit globalThe Cisco ASR 1000 Series is comprised of these adaptations: 
  • ASR 1001 Router 
  • ASR 1002 Fixed Router 
  • ASR 1002 Router  
  • ASR 1002-X Router  
  • ASR 1004 Router
  • ASR 1006 Router
  • ASR 1013 Router 

All adaptations utilize the imaginative and ground-breaking Cisco QuantumFlow Processor, which provides an excellent improvement in execution and versatility for system processors. 

A Closer Look at the ASR 1000

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series conveys various administrations inserted into the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor at wire speeds from 2.5 to 200 Gbps. The administrations upheld on the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor incorporate security administrations (for example, encryption and firewall), nature of administration (QoS), Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR), Cisco IOS® Flexible Packet Matching (FPM), broadband conglomeration, and the Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition). 

With the division of the control and information planes within the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router design, programming repetition is provided. This includes the following adaptations: the Cisco ASR 1001, ASR 1002 Fixed, ASR 1002, ASR 1002-X, and ASR 1004 Routers as well as equipment excess (on the Cisco ASR 1006 and ASR 1013 Routers). It doesn't end there, the measured Cisco IOS XE Software that is presented with the Cisco ASR 1000 Series encourages In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU). 

                                     

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Cisco introduces the high-end router Cisco ASR 1001-X at the edge of Customer enterprise networking (where both connectivity and the traffic flow is high). There are numerous routers per each enterprise network's capacity, but Cisco ASR 1001-X is the first choice for enterprise network connectivity to the service provider via MPLS. 

Cisco ASR 1000 series router has various models, including: 

  • ASR 1001 End of Sale 
  • ASR 1002 End of Sale 
  • ASR 1001-X
  • ASR 1001-HX 
  • ASR 1002-X 
  • ASR 1002-HX 
  • ASR 1004 
  • ASR 1006
  • ASR 1006-X
  • ASR 1009-X 
  • ASR 1013 

cisco enterprise wan routing portfolio at pivit global

Router

Supported Gbps Built-in Ports Power supply Route Processor Slots Embedded Processor Slots Backplane Limit (Gbps)
Cisco ASR 1001-X 2.5 - 20

6 SFP GE

2 SFP 10GE

AC or DC Yes Yes 20
Cisco ASR 1002-X 5 - 36 6 SFP GE AC or DC Yes Yes 36
Cisco ASR 1001-HX 44 - 60

12 SFP GE

8 SFP 10GE

AC or DC Yes Yes

60

Cisco ASR 1002-HX 44 - 100

8 SFP GE

8 SFP 10GE

AC or DC Yes Yes 100
Cisco ASR 1004 10 - 40 - AC or DC Yes Yes 40
Cisco ASR 1006 10 - 100 - AC or DC Yes Yes 100
Cisco ASR 1009-X 40 - 200 - AC or DC Yes Yes 200
Cisco ASR 1013 40 - 200 - AC or DC Yes Yes 200

 

Here at PivIT Global we want to help you find the right infrastructure to best set your business up for success. Reach out to us to talk more on the ASR 1000 model to suit your needs! Start a conversation today or leave us a quick comment below!

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