Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers

Transforming the Network Edge

Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers offer service providers and enterprises industry-leading performance, service capabilities, reliability, and efficiencies in a compact form factor. Using an innovative new Cisco QuantumFlow processor, current and future services can be instantly turned on to operate at line rate without compromising network performance or availability.

Important Features

• Delivers secure, high-performance, and integrated software-enabled services (no service blades required), including multi-gigabit encryption, broadband, 20 Gbps firewall, Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR), Flexible Packet Matching and session border control
• Establishes new price/performance class for edge routers that deliver service integration for personalized residential "any play" and complex business services
• Provides powerful resiliency with convenient and cost-saving in-service software upgrade (ISSU) capability
• Offers software redundancy on non-redundant hardware with ASR1002 and ASR1004

Key Innovations

• Extends high availability to the edge by enabling in-service software upgrades, even for single-route processor configurations
• Delivers instant-on service by only requiring a software license to activate key services
• Enables enhanced operating efficiencies by using its compact form factor to reduce power consumption, space, and sparing requirements with integrated wire-rate services and compact design

Key Services

Enterprise Multi-service secure WAN aggregation and Internet gateway Integrated threat defense Application optimization Ethernet WAN

Service Provider Session border controller SP edge broadband SP edge: high-end route reflector Managed CPE