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Transform your business with high-performance integration of network and applications. The Cisco ASR 1000 Series is a critical part of Cisco Borderless Network Architecture. It delivers:

• New collaborative and highly secure connectivity features
• Highly secure, high-performance, and integrated software-enabled services
• A new price class for high-performance edge routers
• High resiliency with convenient and cost-saving in-service software upgrades
• Software redundancy on nonredundant hardware

Hardware Additions

The Cisco ASR 1013 Router with the 40-Gbps embedded services processor (ESP) and 40-Gbps SPA interface processor (SIP) provides:

• Twice the bandwidth and capacity of earlier Cisco ASR 1000 Series models
• A modular and highly services-integrated routing platform
• A highly scalable and cost-effective solution for the centralized 40-Gbps routing space

Primary Innovations

• Provides a platform for cloud computing to conserve resources and help ensure optimal performance
• Extends high availability to the edge by helping to enable in-service software upgrades
• Delivers instant-on service (activating important services) requires only a software license)
• Enhances operating efficiencies (compact form factor reduces power consumption, space, and sparing requirements)

Primary Services

Enterprise Multiservice secure WAN aggregation, private WAN, and Internet gateway Integrated threat defense Application optimization Ethernet WAN

Service Provider Multi-service edge Session border controller Edge broadband High-end route reflector Managed customer premises equipment (CPE)

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