Cisco ASR 1000 Router Series - mmmm, smells new!

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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
The small and powerful Cisco® ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router represents Cisco's most advanced midrange platform to date. Cisco has created a new network processor to facilitate the delivery of a new price-to-performance class for high-end enterprise customer premises, enterprise WAN, and service provider edge routing solutions. The Cisco ASR 1000 Series is a new line built to meet the specific needs of the aggregation edge and offer performance, scale, flexibility, security, and programmability while offering cost savings previously unachievable to benefit both service providers and enterprises alike.

Business Benefits
Emerging residential and business collaboration services such as video telepresence, IPTV, and application-aware VPNs are accelerating the need for increasingly complex subscriber-management functions. Because of the enormous number of parallel tasks that must be managed in real time, advances in memory management and performance are required. High availability is now as essential at the edge as in the network core for both service providers and enterprise IT managers to maintain the integrity of the user experience. Combining all service features with routing into a simple, single platform without sacrificing forwarding performance can transform provider networks. Network design is also simplified because identical hardware deployments can provide different services based on software licensing.
In addition to the network-processor innovations, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series features Cisco IOS® XE Software, the industry's first software redundant operating system providing Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO) support in the absence of hardware redundancy. The highly modular Cisco IOS XE Software provides restartability, fault containment, and In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU). The new router also offers the following benefits:

• Establishes a new price-to-performance standard: three chassis sizes scale from 2 rack units (2RU) and 5Gbps to 6RU and 40+ Gbps with integrated network services.

• On-chip service delivery eliminates the need for firewall and Session Border Controller (SBC) appliances, thereby eliminating network elements and operational costs. Additional services are available with a simple license purchase.

• High Availability in an entry-level router facilitates ISSUs, even for single-route processor configurations.

• The new router reduces power consumption and eliminates rack space. It minimizes the network carbon footprint through integral service delivery, a compact form factor, and high-scalability service personalization.

• The new router allows for a converged service infrastructure. Multiple low-latency queues allow prioritization of both voice and video services over other data traffic.

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Components
The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router offers modular hardware and software and has all the elements of a true carrier-class routing product. A common hardware and software architecture and common components are used across the family. Key components of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series include:

• Chassis: Router chassis are available in 2RU, 4RU, and 6RU sizes with redundant AC or DC power supplies.

• Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route processor 1 (RP1): The route processor runs the router control plane, including processing of network control packets, computation of routes, and connection setup.

• Cisco ASR 1000 Series Embedded Services Processor (ESP): The ESP, which includes the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor, provides forwarding, services, and traffic-management (quality-of-service [QoS]) capabilities.

• Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor (SIP): This element is the housing for the shared port adapters (SPAs); each SIP can take up to 4 half-height SPAs.

• SPAs: SPAs facilitate modular interface flexibility across multiple Cisco platforms, including copper, Ethernet, Packet over SONET/SDH (PoS), and ATM interfaces.

Specifications for each chassis size can be found in Table 1



Target Customers
Target service provider customers for the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers include providers of all sizes, including cable, mobile, and wireline.

Initiating a Sale

• Do you want to create new revenue-generating services?

• Do you want to reduce the number of platforms in your network required to deliver services?

• Are you spending too much money on technician visits to add new services?

Customer Top Concerns

• High availability

• Investment protection

• Performance: IPv4 and IPv6 Forwarding, Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco Session Border Controller, and Broadband

• Scalability

Source: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns524/ns562/ns592/sales_tool_c96-452161.html