Cisco ASR 9000 Series 5th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Enhanced Multi-Rate Line Card Data Sheet

Product overview

The Cisco^® ASR 9000 Series 5^th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Enhanced Multi-Rate Line Card delivers industry-leading high density, with line-rate 1, 10, 25, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports, to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router. This multi-rate line card is designed to remove bandwidth bottlenecks in the network that are caused by a large increase in Video-on-Demand (VoD), IPTV, point-to-point video, internet video, and cloud services traffic. The physical interfaces support QSFP28, SFP28, QSFP+, SFP+, and SFP optics, giving customers the flexibility to mix and match interface types on the same line card.

Multiple interface modes can be configured easily through the Command-Line Interface (CLI) without resetting or restarting the line card. With these capabilities, the ASR 9000 Series line card (Figure 1) and routers provide the fundamental infrastructure for scalable Carrier Ethernet and IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) networks, promoting profitable business, residential, and mobile services.

Cisco ASR 9000 400GE service edge line card enhanced – 5^th generation

Cisco ASR 9900 400GE service edge line card enhanced – 5^th generation

Features and benefits

The ASR 9000 Series 5^th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Enhanced Line Card is fully compatible with the Cisco ASR 9922, 9912, 9910, 9906, 9904, 9010, and 9006 routers. However, the chassis may require a hardware update for the fabric cards, Route Processor/Route Switch Processor (RP/RSP) cards, and cooling systems. This line card is designed to support full line-rate, non-oversubscribed Ethernet traffic.

This power-optimized line card, with its high density and scale, allows customers to reduce Capital Expenditures (CapEx) and Operating Expenses (OpEx) while offering highly predictable managed transport services for core and peering applications. It supports a 10GE Satellite Network Virtualization (nV) system mode on the ASR 9000 Series Router.

Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the ASR 9000 Series 5^th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Enhanced Line Cards. Specific features and scale support are hardware and software dependent.

Table 1.        Features and benefits

Line card types

The ASR 9000 Series 5^th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Enhanced Line Card is available in a service edge-optimized variant. The service edge-optimized line card is designed for customer deployments requiring enhanced service scale.

Feature licenses are also available for basic and advanced features on the line cards, as described in Tables 3 and 4.

Product specifications

Table 2 provides product specifications for the ASR 9000 Series 5^th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Enhanced Line Cards.

Table 2.        Product specifications

Ordering information

The ASR 9000 Series 5^th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Enhanced Line Cards are available to order through two commercial models, the Flexible Consumption Model and the Traditional Business Model.

The Flexible Consumption Model offers a built-in “pay-as-you-grow” structure that lowers initial startup costs with the ability to add more capacity overtime as needed. Software subscription provides feature upgrades and helps defer the payment of software value for the initial purchase. The Flexible Consumption Model-based line cards are service edge optimized.

Table 3 provides ordering information for the line cards with the Flexible Consumption Model

Table 3.        Ordering information for the Flexible Consumption Model

For more information, please refer to the Cisco IOS XR Software Flexible Consumption Model Data Sheet.

Table 4 provides ordering information for the line cards with the Traditional Business Model.

Table 4.        Ordering information for the Traditional Business Model

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Cisco Services

Through a lifecycle services approach, Cisco delivers comprehensive support to service providers to help them successfully deploy, operate, and optimize their Cisco IP next-generation networks. Cisco Services for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers provide services and proven methodologies that help ensure service deployment with substantial ROI, operational excellence, optimal performance, and high availability. These services are delivered using leading practices, tools, processes, and lab environments developed specifically for ASR 9000 Series deployments and post-implementation support. The Cisco Services team addresses your specific requirements, mitigates risk to existing revenue-generating services, and helps accelerate time to market for new network services.

Product sustainability

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Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environmental Sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in the following table.

Table 5.        Links to sustainability topics

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