Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards Data Sheet

Product Overview

Remove bandwidth bottlenecks in your network today that are caused by a large increase in video-on-demand (VoD), IPTV, point-to-point video, Internet video, and cloud services traffic with the Cisco^® ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards. This line card delivers industry-leading 40 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports or a combination of 4 10-Gigabit Ethernet and 16 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router. These line cards deliver economical, scalable, highly available, line-rate Ethernet and IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching IP/MPLS) edge services. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series line cards and routers are designed to provide the fundamental infrastructure for scalable Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS networks, allowing profitable business, residential, and mobile services.

Features and Benefits

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards are fully compatible with all Cisco ASR 9000 Series chassis except the Cisco ASR 9001 Router. No hardware upgrade to the chassis or cooling system is required to deploy these line cards.

Each line card provides simultaneous support for both Layer 2 and Layer 3 services and features. This helps operators qualify and stock a single line card that can be deployed in any combination of Layer 2 and Layer 3 applications. It also helps reduce capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx) and reduces the time required to develop and deploy new services. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Ethernet line cards set a new standard for Layer 2 and Layer 3 service density and scale, allowing operators to offer highly predictable, managed transport services while optimizing the use of network assets.

With their synchronization circuitry and dedicated backplane timing traces for accessing the route switch processor’s (RSP’s) Stratum-3 subsystem, the line cards provide standards-based line-interface functions for delivering and deriving transport-class network timing, allowing support for network-synchronized services and applications such as mobile backhaul and time-division multiplexing (TDM) migration. Coupled with the RSP, the line cards can also be used for applications requiring IEEE 1588v2 synchronization services. Recognizing that real‑time media dominate next-generation services, Cisco has integrated media-monitoring technology into the Cisco line cards. This multimedia technology allows real-time monitoring and statistics collection of real-time video and voice flows, facilitating proactive maintenance and management of today’s comprehensive media services.

Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Ethernet line cards. Specific features and scalability are hardware and software dependent.

Table 1.       Features and Benefits of Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards

Line Card Types

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards are available in Service Edge Optimized and Packet Transport Optimized models.

●   Service Edge Optimized line cards are designed for customer deployments requiring enhanced quality of service (QoS).

●   Packet Transport Optimized line cards are designed for network deployments where basic QoS is required.

Different line card types may be mixed within the same system.

Feature licenses are also available to activate advanced features on the line cards, as described in the Software Licensing section in this document.

Product Specifications

Table 2 provides product specifications for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards.

Table 2.       Product Specifications

Pluggable Interfaces

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series line cards support a wide range of SFP and SFP+ interfaces. See the Cisco ASR 9000 Transceiver Modules: Line Card Support data sheet for a complete list.

Software Licensing

Line Card Feature Licenses

Both versions support optional per-line-card feature licenses to turn on advanced features. Layer 3 VPN licenses provide access to VPN Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instances on a per-line card basis. They include the Infrastructure VRF license to support up to 8 VRF instances and Advanced IP licenses to support up to full-scale VRF instances. The Advanced Video license activates the inline video monitoring feature on a per-line-card basis. Table 3 lists the line card feature licenses.

Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards Line Cards support all features available on the Typhoon based MOD80 line cards, except that satellite interfaces (on 40X1GE card) are limited to 16 ports; ingress queuing is not supported; and there is no DWDM support.

Table 3.       Feature Licenses for Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40-Port Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards

System-Level Feature Licenses

Cisco ASR 9000 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards also support the deployment of advanced features based on Cisco ASR 9000 Series system-level licenses. The Lawful Intercept license activates lawful intercept capabilities for surveillance of packet streams that flow through Cisco ASR 9000 ports. The Advanced Mobile license activates Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588-2008 protocols to distribute precision time and frequency across the network. The Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) license allows high-scale Ethernet BNG with session and subscriber awareness. Inline video monitoring on Cisco Modular line cards can also be activated using a system-level Advanced Video license.

Table 4 lists the system licenses supported by Cisco modular line cards.

Table 4.       System-Level Feature Licenses Supported by Cisco Modular Line Cards

Ordering Information

Table 5 provides ordering information for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards.

Table 5.       Ordering Information

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Cisco Services for the ASR 9000 Series

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