ASR-9010-SYS

Description

The Cisco ASR-9010-SYS is a high-performance 8 Line Card Slot Chassis from the ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, designed for service providers requiring massive Carrier Ethernet aggregation of dense 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet connections. Optimized for convergence of Layer 2 Ethernet transport and Layer 3 services, it delivers industry-leading capacity, scalability, and reliability. With 10 units in stock and available for immediate dispatch at a special offer price of $1122 (save 92%), this chassis is perfect for video, cloud, mobile backhaul, IPTV, CDNs, business VPNs, and IPoDWDM networks. Download the PDF datasheet for full technical details.

Key Features and Architecture

• Distributed forwarding and control planes for superior performance and scale, with all packet-forwarding decisions on individual line cards.
• Modular hardware and software components isolate failures to subsystems, ensuring high availability.
• Hardware-based signaling for fabric supports zero packet loss on switchover.
• Built-in redundancy across route switch processor (RSP), switch fabric, control plane bus, and power supplies eliminates single points of failure.
• Active-active switch fabric architecture with single-stage nonblocking design, scalability, and high availability.
• Service intelligence with traffic prioritization, virtual output queuing, arbitration, and efficient congestion management to avoid head-of-line blocking.
• Network synchronization via centralized BITS, DTI, and two independent clock sources (BITS/SSU).
• Flexible programming infrastructure on line cards for high-density HQoS, security, SyncE, BFD, EOAM.
• Cisco IOS XR Software with true process modularity, protected memory for routing protocols, distributed route processing, NSF, NSR.
• Supports Ethernet Services, L2VPN, L3VPN, IPv4/IPv6, Multicast, MPLS OAM, ACLs, H-QoS, TE-FRR, MC-LAG, IRB.

System Capabilities

The ASR 9010 chassis shares RSPs, line cards, PEMs, and power supplies with ASR 9006 for network flexibility. It operates in a fully distributed fashion, enhancing resilience. IOS XR Releases 4.0.0+ support shared port adapters (SPAs) for MSE and E-MSE, scaling VRFs, routes, BFD, BGP NSR. High-scale configurations require 8G RSP memory.

Hardware Integration

• Compatible with RSPs: A9K-RSP-4G (4GB DRAM), A9K-RSP-8G (8GB DRAM), including 40GB SAS HDD, 4GB eUSB, 1GB Compact Flash.
• Management: Two 10/100/1000 RJ-45 LAN ports, console, auxiliary.
• Alarms: CR, MJ, MN outputs; LEDs for ACO, SYNC, CF, HDD, fans.
• Line cards: Extensive portfolio including A9K-40GE-L/B/E, A9K-8T/4-L/B/E, A9K-2x100GE-TR/SE, A9K-24x10GE-TR/SE, and more.
• Power supplies: A9K-3KW-AC, A9K-2KW-DC, etc., with redundancy.
• Physical: Occupies slots for dual redundant RSPs; dimensions 1.65in H x 16in W x 26.53in D; 18lb weight.

High Availability and Redundancy

• No single point of failure: Fabric, power, RSP (same version required), software redundancy.
• Highly scalable fabric supports 1/10/100-Gbps densities with investment protection.
• Memory-less switch fabric for nonblocking forwarding; centralized arbiter for zero-loss switchover.
• 40GB HDD for core dumps, reducing MTTR; eUSB for USB flash recovery.
• Front-panel LEDs for RSP status, power, activity.

Software and Services

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