Cisco ASR 5000 Series

Data Sheets and Product Information

At-a-Glance

• In-Line Services on the Cisco ASR 5000: Intelligent Mobile Service Monetization 15-Oct-2010 (PDF - 230 KB)

Data Sheets

• Cisco ASR 5500 Multimedia Core Platform Data Sheet 06-Jun-2012
• Cisco SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node: The Next-Generation SGSN for the UMTS/HSPA Packet Core 25-Jun-2010
• Cisco GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node: Connectivity for the UMTS/HSPA Packet Core 25-Jun-2010

End-of-Life and End-of-Sale Notices

• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.20 to 21.21 07-Jan-2021
• Annonce d’arrêt de commercialisation et de fin de vie de Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.19 21-Dec-2020
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.19 21-Dec-2020
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR 5000 Series 02-Nov-2020
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR5x00 Software Release 21 to 21.10 12-Aug-2020
• Annonce d’arrêt de commercialisation et de fin de vie de Cisco ASR 5000 Series 02-Jun-2020
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.18 15-May-2020
• Annonce d’arrêt de commercialisation et de fin de vie de Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.18 15-May-2020
• Annonce d’arrêt de commercialisation et de fin de vie de Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.17 26-Mar-2020
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.17 26-Mar-2020
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.16 21-Jan-2020
• Annonce d’arrêt de commercialisation et de fin de vie de Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.16 21-Jan-2020
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.15 12-Nov-2019
• Annonce d’arrêt de commercialisation et de fin de vie de Cisco ASR5500 Software Release 21.15 12-Nov-2019
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Local External Storage Server (L-ESS) 10-Oct-2019

Security Notices

Field Notices

• Cisco ASR 5500

  • Field Notice: FN - 70336 - ASR55-FSC Cards Are Reported as CARD_UNUSABLE, Unsupported/Unknown, or Offline When Booted with a New ASR55-MIO - Workaround Provided 01-Mar-2019
• Field Notice: FN - 63758 - ASR5000 and ASR5500 Products Might Fail to Boot Up After a Software Upgrade or Power Cycle - Replace on Failure 01-Aug-2018

Security Advisories, Responses and Notices

• Cisco StarOS Denial of Service Vulnerability 17-Feb-2021
• Cisco StarOS IPv4 Denial of Service Vulnerability 20-Jan-2021
• Cisco StarOS for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Routers Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability 13-Jan-2021
• Cisco StarOS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 07-Oct-2020
• Cisco StarOS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 07-Oct-2020
• Cisco StarOS IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability 05-Aug-2020
• Cisco StarOS IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability 05-Aug-2020
• Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Enhanced Charging Service Rule Bypass Vulnerability 17-Jun-2020
• Cisco Mobility Management Entity Denial of Service Vulnerability 08-Jan-2020
• Cisco StarOS Denial of Service Vulnerability 19-Jun-2019
• Cisco StarOS IPv4 Fragmentation Denial of Service Vulnerability 11-Jul-2018
• Cisco StarOS IPsec Manager Denial of Service Vulnerability 18-Apr-2018
• Cisco Packet Data Network Gateway Peer-to-Peer Message Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability 18-Apr-2018
• Cisco StarOS Interface Forwarding Denial of Service Vulnerability 18-Apr-2018
• Cisco StarOS CLI Command Injection Vulnerability 07-Mar-2018

Release and Compatibility

Release Notes

• 21.20.12_ReleaseNotes 24-Feb-2021
• 21.18.17_ReleaseNotes 23-Feb-2021
• 21.9.13_ReleaseNotes 16-Feb-2021
• 21.15.55_ReleaseNotes 02-Feb-2021
• 21.20.u8_ReleaseNotes 30-Jan-2021
• 21.21.1_ReleaseNotes 29-Jan-2021
• 21.20.11_ReleaseNotes 28-Jan-2021
• 21.22.n3_ReleaseNotes 25-Jan-2021
• 21.15.54_ReleaseNotes 25-Jan-2021
• 21.22.n2_ReleaseNotes 24-Jan-2021
• 21.20.k7_ReleaseNotes 24-Jan-2021
• 21.15.53_ReleaseNotes 14-Jan-2021
• 21.20.10_N6.14.2_ReleaseNotes 23-Dec-2020
• 21.15.52_ReleaseNotes 22-Dec-2020
• 21.22.0_ReleaseNotes 17-Dec-2020

Configuration

Configuration Examples and TechNotes

• Cisco ASR 5000

  • Troubleshoot ASR 5x00 Chassis Access and Console Login 16-Jun-2015
• Graceful Assert Handling in StarOS S4-SGSN 05-Nov-2019
• ASR5000 (5K) Console Cable Configuration Example 31-Jan-2016
• Configure QOS Support and Enforcement for ASR 5x00 Packet Gateway 17-Dec-2015
• Configure the Congestion Control Mechanism on the ASR 5X00 23-Jul-2015
• Load Balance MME in Pool 19-Jun-2015
• ASR 5x00 Series SGSN Authentication and PTMSI Reallocation Best Practices 12-Jun-2015
• ASR5x00 MME Overload Protection Features 12-Jun-2015
• Configure CSFB to Activate in Cisco ASR5x00 Series MME 11-Jun-2015
• Configure Failure-Handling and Server-Unreachable Mechanisms for OCS Failure Resolution on the ASR5K 02-Jun-2015
• ASR 5000 Series Impact of SCTP Low Advertised Window Size on M3UA Link 20-May-2015

Configuration Guides

• GTPP Interface Administration and Reference, StarOS Release 21.18 13-Jan-2021
• ECS Administration Guide, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• Command Line Interface Reference, Modes R - Z, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• ePDG Administration Guide, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• Command Line Interface Reference, Modes C - D, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• Command Line Interface Reference, Modes E - F, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• Command Line Interface Reference, Modes I - Q, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• Command Line Interface Reference, Modes G - H, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• S-GW Administration Guide, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• P-GW Administration Guide, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• Statistics and Counters Reference - Bulkstatistic Descriptions, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• Statistics and Counters Reference, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• PSF Administration Guide, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• SAEGW Administration Guide, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020
• SaMOG Administration Guide, StarOS Release 21.22 17-Dec-2020

Maintain and Operate

Maintain and Operate TechNotes

• Cisco ASR 5500

  • ASR 5500 Card Replacements Method of Procedure (MOP) 19-Feb-2015
• ASR5x00 Session Manager Tasks - Description of Function, Crash, Recovery Operations, and Crash Logs 25-Aug-2015
• Implement Overload Protection for Gateways and Neighboring Network Elements on the ASR5x00 Series 24-Jul-2015
• Offload SGSN Subscribers with Target-NRI and Target-Count in the SGSN Pool for an ASR 5000 Series 12-May-2015

Troubleshooting

Support FAQ

• How snmp notif-threshold works in ASR5000 Series 18-Oct-2017

Troubleshooting TechNotes

• Troubleshoot CDRs/GTPP Archiving in ASR 5000/5500/Virtual Packet Core 18-Feb-2021
• Troubleshoot CDRs/GTPP Archiving in ASR 5000/5500/Virtual Packet Core 18-Feb-2021
• ASR 5500: Card Failure Due to XFAB_FAP_FAILURE 15-Feb-2021
• BGP Health Check and Troubleshoot CLIs 20-Jan-2021
• Linux TCP Dump in Debug Shell to Troubleshoot Diameter Connection Issues 07-Jan-2021
• ASR5x00 Backing up .chassisid file (chassis ID) on StarOS releases 20 and Higher 29-Sep-2020
• ASR5x00 Backing up .chassisid file (chassis ID) on StarOS releases 20 and Higher 29-Sep-2020
• Interpreting output for show port CLIs for LAG on ASR 5000 and ASR 5500 14-Sep-2020
• Troubleshoot Multiple Data Processing Cards Shutdown Due too Many npumgr Crashes 27-Jan-2020
• Troubleshoot Audio Call Transfer Problem at the Time of SRVCC Handover in VoLTE 14-Oct-2019
• Troubleshoot "buffer" Configuration Under Lawful Interception Context in StarOS 23-Aug-2019
• Troubleshoot 4G ASR KPI Degradation due to an Increase in mme-hss-user-unknown Disconnect Reason 17-Jul-2019
• ECM-IDLE Mode and Overcharging Protection in SGW and PGW 15-May-2019
• Troubleshoot HTTP Malformed Packets That Get Filtered and Dropped by ECS in Cisco PGW 06-May-2019
• Troubleshoot PDN Connectivity Request Rejection for Error Message "ACTIVATION REJECTED UNSPECIFIED(0x1f)" 19-Apr-2019