Cisco Systems manual Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers Hardware Overview

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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers Hardware

Overview

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers are the next generation midrange router products. The system is based on Cisco QuantumFlow Processor technology using a family of Cisco-developed processors.

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers target both enterprise and service provider applications but with higher performance and improved availability. The specific applications covered by

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers are:

•Enterprise applications—Intended as the mid-size aggregation and gateway router typically residing in a regional or large branch office:

–WAN aggregation at Cisco Enterprise core

–Internet gateway

–Branch or regional office aggregation

–Remote access aggregation

•Service provider applications—Intended as the low-end service provider edge and broadband aggregation device with similar throughput:

–High-end customer premises equipment (CPE) for business-quality Internet access

–Provider edge (PE) and high-end customer edge (CE) for Layer 2 VPN or Layer 3 VPN services

–Broadband aggregation—PPPoE/PPPoA aggregation and Service Selection Gateway (SSG)

–Low-end Ethernet aggregation

This chapter provides an overview of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers and includes the following information:

•Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers, page 1-2

•Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers Configurations, page 1-32

•Field-Replaceable Units, page 1-4

•Functional Overview, page 1-4

•Cisco Product Identification Standard, page 1-15

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregaion Services Routers Hardware Installation and Initial Configuration Guide

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