ASR-9904-AC

Description

Product overview

The Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers represent a groundbreaking advancement in edge and core routing, offering exceptional scalability, carrier-grade reliability, eco-friendly design, remarkable flexibility, and a competitive price-to-performance ratio. This series includes a diverse range of products, from the compact Cisco ASR 9001 (2 Rack Units [2RU]) to the robust Cisco ASR 9922 (44RU). Each router is engineered for true carrier-class reliability, utilizing the Cisco IOS® XR operating system, extensive system redundancy, and a comprehensive set of network resiliency features. Additionally, the ASR 9000 Series is designed to simplify and enhance the operations and deployment of service delivery networks.

Key Features

Fully Distributed System
The ASR 9000 Series operates as a fully distributed system, with all packet-forwarding decisions executed on individual line cards. These high-density Ethernet line cards are equipped with specialized network processors that offer a flexible programming infrastructure, high-density Hierarchical Quality-of-Service (H-QoS) services, security features, and advanced timing capabilities, including PTP and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support. This distributed architecture enhances resiliency and scalability for features such as Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) and Ethernet Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (EOAM).

Operational Efficiency and Redundant Hardware
The ASR 9000 Series is built with operational efficiency in mind, featuring redundancy in all common components, including Route Switch Processors (RSPs), Route Processors (RPs), switching fabric, fans, and power supplies. The platform utilizes power on an as-needed basis, allowing for a pay-as-you-grow model that reduces Capital Expenditures (CapEx) and streamlines deployment. Advanced power management capabilities further optimize energy use, while the series also offers space-efficient, high-capacity compact platform options.

Environmentally Conscious Design
In response to growing awareness of environmental impact and its financial implications, the ASR 9000 Series adopts a thoughtful approach to product development. Every design aspect—be it optimal thermal management, the arrangement of line-card components, or the dimensions of each slot—aims to minimize environmental impact through reduced power consumption and cooling needs. Even the packaging process has been optimized to lessen material use and waste at customer locations, exemplifying Cisco’s commitment to efficient and sustainable product design.

Cisco IOS XR Software Modular Operating System
The ASR 9000 Series employs the Cisco IOS XR operating system, renowned for its high quality, scalability, and rich feature set. Utilizing a microkernel architecture, IOS XR achieves true modularity, enabling nonstop operations during software upgrades or module changes without disrupting regular functionality.

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is built on the premise of addressing the challenges that service providers face when deploying current networks and planning for the networks of tomorrow:

• Power-efficient deployments: The Cisco ASR 9000 Series has a significantly improved energy-efficient design thanks to its low Watt/Gbps ratio. This amazing breakthrough ultimately translates to lower power costs, lower carbon footprint, and the ability to serve more customers and deliver more services in less rack space.
• Increasing Average Revenue Per User (ARPU): Service providers may increase the price models of existing services or increase the service offerings per user. Although traditional service prices continue to decline, the Cisco ASR 9000 Series helps establish a new financial reality by facilitating reliable and scalable next-generation converged service edge and advanced Carrier Ethernet service offerings.
• Managing services simply and efficiently: The Cisco ASR 9000 Series provides leading-edge network, device, and service management through a full complement of management solutions called Crosswork Network Automation. Cisco Crosswork Network Automation is a closed-loop, outcome-driven software suite used to deliver efficient mass-scale network operations across the services lifecycle. This is a scalable solution for operators of all-sized networks to accelerate mean-time-to-value by monetizing agile new services and minimizing mean-time-to-remediation to proactively prevent customer impacting issues. Combining these elements with a comprehensive set of Ethernet, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Segment Routing Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) capabilities, the Cisco ASR 9000 Series provides an operator-friendly environment.
• Network convergence: A common objective among service providers is to migrate their networks to a single, converged infrastructure that supports all services. This goal is compelling because it ultimately results in decreased CapEx and Operating Expenses (OpEx) because of a reduction in network elements. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is a critical component in optimizing service-transport infrastructure because of its service flexibility, comprehensive feature set, wide interface capability, and transparent integration of Carrier Ethernet and WAN interfaces as the foundation for services delivery. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series provides a powerful single solution to the providers’ MultiService Edge (MSE), Ethernet-optimized MSE (E-MSE), and Carrier Ethernet needs.
• Meeting tomorrow’s service requirements: Designed into the Cisco ASR 9000 Series are critical capabilities supporting the services of tomorrow. Providing increased bandwidth capabilities for network devices at economically viable prices is one of the primary criteria for true carrier transport platforms. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series can scale to unprecedented levels, providing the ideal foundation for a full suite of next-generation services. Another crucial component for true network and service convergence is the integration of service intelligence in network elements. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is designed to offer advanced subscriber management using silicon-based security services.

Hardware

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers provide unsurpassed speeds, up through 400 Gigabit Ethernet, with scale and high density. The Cisco ASR 9000 and ASR 9900 Series Routers provide flexible options for high density 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 100 Gigabit Ethernet and 400 Gigabit Ethernet ports without the need for a complete chassis replacement. These line cards, offered in base and extended-scale configurations, are complemented by the nonblocking fabric (on the RSP for the Cisco ASR 9006, ASR 9010, ASR 9906, ASR 9910 and ASR 9904 Routers and on separate fabric cards for the Cisco ASR 9906, ASR 9910, ASR 9912 and ASR 9922 Routers), and by the innovative backplane, thermal, and power infrastructure on the chassis.

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series has a modular power architecture available in both AC and DC. The power supplies are housed in field-serviceable Power Entry Modules (PEMs), which also come in AC and DC forms. Each PEM can hold up to three or four modules depending on its corresponding type, with no power zones or placement restrictions (mixing of AC and DC supplies is not supported). Service providers can add more power as their bandwidth and feature requirements increase over time, by adding more line cards to the chassis. This capability translates to lower CapEx initially and optimal OpEx over the product life.

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series also features a fully integrated timing infrastructure, allowing the routers to take in timing inputs (for example, SyncE, GPS, Building Integrated Timing Supply [BITS], and DOCSIS^® Timing Interface [DTI]) and distribute them over the backplane to each slot. This capability allows extensive support for transparent mobile convergence, mobile Radio Access Network (RAN) backhaul, and Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) circuit emulation, without sacrificing performance or scale.

The optimized thermal infrastructure of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series is designed to be scalable to support future capacity requirements. Variable-speed high-efficiency fans provide reduced power requirements under normal operating environments while retaining the capability to cool current and future line cards under extreme conditions.

Hardware Available for Cisco ASR 9000 and ASR 9900 Series

Software

Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers deliver exceptional scale, service flexibility, high availability, and operational simplicity. The routers are powered by Cisco IOS XR Software, an innovative self-healing, distributed operating system designed for always-on operation while scaling system capacity up to 160 Tbps. Cisco IOS XR Software also allows for an end-to-end IP/MPLS solution to service provider requirements based on the same software, thereby reducing the operational complexity of managing multiple operating systems. Cisco IOS XR Software Release 3.7.2 introduced support for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers, which are designed to address the Carrier Ethernet foundation for visual networking. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series further enhances the IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) Carrier Ethernet design for converged, resilient, intelligent, and scalable transport of consumer, business, wholesale, and mobile services.

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Carrier Ethernet applications include business services such as Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN) and L3VPN, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Content-Delivery Networks (CDNs), and mobile backhaul transport networks. Features supported include Ethernet services; SR, SRv6, EVPN, VxLAN, L2VPN; IPv4, IPv6, and L3VPN; Layer 2 and Layer 3 Multicast; IP over Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (IPoDWDM); SyncE; EOAM and MPLS OAM; Layer 2 and Layer 3 Access Control Lists (ACLs); H-QoS; MPLS Traffic Engineering Fast Reroute (MPLS TE-FRR); Multichassis Link Aggregation (MC-LAG); Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB); and Cisco Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) and Nonstop Routing (NSR).

Ordering information

The ASR 9000 Series Routers are available to order through the Flexible Consumption Model (FCM) and Traditional Business Model.

The Flexible Consumption Model offers a built-in “pay-as-you-grow” structure that lowers initial start-up costs with the ability to add more capacity overtime as needed. Software subscription provides feature upgrades and helps defer the payment of software value for the initial purchase.

provides hardware ordering information for the ASR 9000 Series Modular Routers that support both the Flexible Consumption and Traditional Business Models.

Chassis Hardware ordering information for the ASR 9000 Series Modular Routers