Operating Modes
The interface module supports the following two operating modes:
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Full Subscription
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Over Subscription
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The interface module supports 8 ports of 1 Gigabit Ethernet + 1 port of 10 Gigabit Ethernet mode by default (except the slots 0, 1, 6, and 9 with XFI Pass through mode). |
Full Subscription Mode
Full subscription operating mode supports the bandwidth equal to the number of ports configured.
For example, if you configure 8-port 1GE + 1-port 10GE in full subscription operating mode, then the supported bandwidth is 8 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
The supported operating modes of Full Subscription for ASR 903 Routers are:
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16-port 1GE + 1-port 10GE
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8-port 1GE + 1-port 10 GE
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18-port 1GE
The supported operating modes of Full Subscription for ASR 907 Routers are:
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8-port 1GE + 1-port 10GE
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8-port 1GE + 1-port 1GE
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8-port 1GE
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1-port 10GE
Over Subscription Mode
Over Subscription operating mode is applicable to 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports only. 16-port 1GE and 16-port 1GE + 1-port 10GE operating modes support 8 Gigabit Ethernet and 18 Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth, respectively. 18-port 1GE supports 9 Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth. But, if the total bandwidth exceeds the supported bandwidth, it results in low priority traffic drop.
For example, if you configure 16-port 1GE + 1-port 10GE over subscription operating mode, then 8GE bandwidth is suported for 16 ports of 1 Giagabit Ethernet and 10GE bandwidth is supported for 10 Giagabit Ethernet ports.
The following are the supported operating modes of Over Subscription for ASR 907 Routers:
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16-port 1GE
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16-port 1GE + 1-port 10GE
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18-port 1GE
Note
In 18-port 1GE mode, 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical port slot becomes 2 ports of 1 Gigabit Ethernet with insertion of CSFP.
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By default, the interface module loads in 8-port 1GE + 1-port 10 GE modes (except the slots 0, 1, 6, and 9 with XFI-Pass Through mode. For more information, refer Optics Matrix.
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Over subscription mode is not supported on ASR 903 Routers. |
Traffic is classified as follows:
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High Priorty Traffic — Has high priority queue
This is classified as follows:
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DMAC=01-80-C2-xx-xx-xx
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Etype=0x8100, 9100, 9200, 88A8 Cos values=5, 6, 7
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Etype=0806 (ARP), 88F7 (PTP)
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Etype=0x800, TOS 5, 6, 7
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Etype=0x8847, MPLS EXP 5, 6, 7
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Low Priority Traffic — Traffic that does not satisfy the above conditions has low priority queue
Egress Packet Classifiers
Feature Name |
Release |
Description |
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Oversubscription Support for A900-IMA8CS1Z-M |
Cisco IOS XE Amsterdam 17.1.1 |
Egress packet classification is done based on priority-based flow-control (PFC) to ensure that there are no drop in packets. |
During oversubscription, the egress direction classifies the packet based on the following:
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The first 8 ports use the priority-based flow-control (PFC) to ensure that there are no drop in packets.
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The remaining ports do strict priority between High Priority and Low Priority counters.
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The threshold value is 6 by default (packet with CoS/EXP/DSCP value greater than or equal to 6 is classified as High Priority. |