Cisco ASR 9000 Series 4-Port 100-Gigabit Ethernet LAN Line Card Data Sheet
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Product overview
Cisco® ASR 9000 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet LAN line card delivers line-rate 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router. This line card provides carrier-class reliability and 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. This 4-port 100 Gigabit line card uses 100G Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) optics. It also provides the flexibility to break 100GE ports into four 10GE channels for a total of 16 10GE channels per line card. Using a “green design,” this low powered line card further allows customers put an unused slice in power-saving mode to reduce power consumption. With these capabilities, the ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100-GE LAN line card (Figure 1) provides the fundamental infrastructure for scalable Carrier Ethernet and IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) networks, promoting profitable business, residential, and mobile services.
Features and benefits
The ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100-GE LAN line card are fully compatible with the ASR 9006, ASR 9010, ASR 9904, ASR 9906, ASR 9910, ASR 9912 and ASR 9922 Routers. These line cards are designed for transport integration in high-density 100G environments, deliver line-rate packet performance for IP and MPLS transport, and operate at an incredibly low-power profile, thereby lowering total network operating expenses.
The ASR 9000 Series can extend 100 Gigabit Ethernet transport over an IP-over-Dense-Wave-Division-Multiplexing (IPoDWDM) network when used with the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM transponder solution. Distances of up to 3000 kilometers can be achieved while using the optical protection capabilities of the DWDM network.
Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series line card. Specific feature and scale support is hardware- and software-dependent.
Table 1. Features and benefits of Cisco ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet LAN line card
| Feature | Benefit |
| Interface support | |
| QSFP 100G pluggable interfaces | Standard QSFP28 100 Gigabit Ethernet optics. For a complete list of supported interfaces, see the Cisco ASR 9000 Transceiver Modules: Line Card Support data sheet |
| Layer 3 services | Combined IP, MPLS, Ethernet, and Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN) services |
| Evolutionary monitoring | |
| Carrier-class Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) | NetFlow, IEEE 802.1ag, IEEE 802.3ah, ITU Y.1731, IP Service-Level Agreement (IP SLA), Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV), ping, and traceroute |
| Carrier-Class OS | |
| Cisco IOS® XR Software | Modular, patchable, scalable, highly available, carrier-core and edge-proven operating system |
Product specifications
Table 2 provides product specifications for the ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet LAN line card.
Table 2. Product specifications
| Description | Specification |
| Chassis compatibility | Compatible with the Cisco ASR 9006, ASR 9010, ASR 9904, ASR 9906, ASR 9910, ASR 9912, and ASR 9922 chassis |
| Port density | 4 ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet or 16 10GE ports via breakout per line card |
| Ethernet | ● 100-Gbps IEEE 802.3ba compliant ● 100 Gigabit Ethernet PHY monitoring ● IEEE 802.x flow control ● Full-duplex operation ● Per-port byte and packet counters for policy drops; oversubscription drops; Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error drops; packet sizes; and unicast, multicast, and broadcast packets |
| Performance | ● 100-Gbps line-rate throughput per port |
| Reliability and availability | Line card Online Insertion and Removal (OIR) support without system impact |
| Physical dimensions (H x W x D); weight | 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet LAN line card: 14.5 x 1.63 x 22.02 in.; 19.7 lb (368.3 mm x 41.4 mm x 559.3 mm; 8.9 kg) |
| Operating temperature | 41 to 104ºF (5 to 40ºC) |
| Operating humidity (nominal) (relative humidity) | 10 to 85% |
| Storage temperature | –40 to 158ºF (–40 to 70ºC) |
| Storage (relative humidity) | 5 to 95% Note: Not to exceed 0.024 kg of water per kg of dry air |
| Operating altitude | –60 to 4000m (up to 2000m conforms to IEC, EN, UL, and CSA 60950 requirements) |
| ETSI standards | Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers are designed to meet: ● EN300 386: Telecommunications Network Equipment (EMC) ● ETSI 300 019 Storage Class 1.1 ● ETSI 300 019 Transportation Class 2.3 ● ETSI 300 019 Stationary Use Class 3.1 ● EN55022: Information Technology Equipment (Emissions) ● EN55032: Multimedia Equipment (Emissions) ● EN55024: Information Technology Equipment (Immunity) ● EN55035: Multimedia Equipment (Immunity) ● EN50082-1/EN-61000-6-1: Generic Immunity Standard |
| EMC standards | Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers are designed to meet: ● FCC Class A ● ICES 003 Class A ● AS/NZS 3548 Class A ● CISPR 22 (EN55022) Class A ● CISPR 32 (EN55032) Class A ● VCCI Class A ● BSMI Class A ● IEC/EN 61000-3-2: Power Line Harmonics ● IEC/EN 61000-3-3: Voltage Fluctuations and Flicker |
| Immunity | Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers are designed to meet: ● IEC/EN-61000-4-2: Electrostatic Discharge Immunity (8kV Contact, 15kV Air) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-3: Radiated Immunity (10V/m) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-4: Electrical Fast Transient Immunity (2kV Power, 1kV Signal) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Surge AC Port (4kV CM, 2kV DM) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Signal Ports (1kV) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Surge DC Port (1kV) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-6: Immunity to Conducted Disturbances (10Vrms) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-8: Power Frequency Magnetic Field Immunity (30A/m) ● IEC/EN-61000-4-11: Voltage DIPS, Short Interruptions, and Voltage Variations |
| Safety | Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers are designed to meet: ● UL/CSA/IEC/EN 60950-1 ● IEC/EN 60825 Laser Safety ● ACA TS001 ● AS/NZS 60950 ● FDA: Code of Federal Regulations Laser Safety |
Pluggable interfaces
The ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line card supports the QSFP form factor pluggable interfaces listed in Table 3. See the Cisco ASR 9000 Transceiver Modules: Line Card Support data sheet for a complete list of supported pluggable interfaces.
Table 3. Cisco interfaces supported by the Cisco ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line card
| Part number | 100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP optics | Maximum Distance |
| QSFP-100G-LR4-S | 100 Gigabit Ethernet long-reach, 1310 nm single-mode fiber | 10 km |
| QSFP-100G-SR4-S | 100 Gigabit Ethernet short-reach, 850 nm multimode fiber | 100 – 150 m |
| QSFP-100G-CWDM4-S | 100GBASE CWDM4 QSFP Transceiver, LC, 2 km over SMF | 10 km |
| QSFP-100G-AOC10M | 100GBASE QSFP Active Optical Cable, 10m | 10 m |
| QSFP-4X10G-LR-S* | QSFP 4x10G Transceiver Module, SM MPO, 10KM, Enterprise-Class | 10 km |
| QSFP-100G-ER4L-S* | 100GBASE QSFP Transceiver, 40KM reach over SMF, Duplex LC | 40 km |
Software licensing
Line card feature licenses
The ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet LAN line cards 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 eight VRF instances and Advanced IP licenses to support up to full-scale VRF instances. Table 4 lists the line card feature licenses.
Table 4. Feature licenses for Cisco ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet LAN line card
| License part number | Feature description |
| A9K-400G-IVRF | ASR 9000 4-port 100GE Infrastructure VRF license |
| A9K-400G-L-AIP | ASR 9000 4-port 100GE Advanced IP license per line card |
Table 5 provides ordering information for the ASR 9000 Series 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet LAN line card.
Table 5. Ordering information
| Product description | Part number | Minimum XR Release support |
| Cisco ASR 9000 4-port 100GE LAN line card | A9K-4X100GE | XR 6.2.3 |
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