At-a-Glance
Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Routers
Overview
Benefits
• Increase revenue by deploying
new services and entering new
markets
• Reduce operational costs
through network consolidation
and end-end service
orchestration enabling instant
on service experience
Content-rich, IP-based services are changing the way people
communicate and do business. To deliver the services your subscribers
demand, you must make network investments to carry more traffic than
ever before. Unfortunately, the new applications and services you now
support don’t deliver the same share of overall revenue as traditional
voice and data services. This puts pressure on your margins and overall
profitability. To compete in today’s market, have to overcome new
challenges. Yet your current network infrastructure makes it difficult to
innovate and deliver new services quickly. And it costs more to deliver
services, leading to margin pressure and reduced profits. So how do you
deliver a quality user experience to reduce the risk of customer churn?
The Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Carrier-class reliability. Comprehensive system redundancy. A full
complement of network resiliency schemes. Those are some of the
features you’ll find in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series. The series product range
from the Cisco ASR 9001 Router (2RU) to the Cisco ASR 9922 Router
(44RU). Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers also offer the services and
application-level intelligence you need for optimized video delivery and
mobile aggregation. These are complete solutions that help you simplify
and enhance the deployment and operation of service delivery networks.
• Greatly improve service agility
by orchestrating services
across network and data
center, enabling on-demand
service capabilities with
customer self-service options
• Enhance customer experience
with high density and scalability
The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is critical component of the Cisco Evolved
Programmable Network. It features the modular, microkernel-based
Cisco IOS® XR Software operating system and offers unique serviceand application-level intelligence required to support the revenue
opportunities of the Internet of Everything. In addition, the Cisco ASR
9000 system incorporates innovative technologies such as Cisco
Network Virtualization (nV) technology, which intelligently blends
the edge, aggregation, and access points to simplify operation and
accelerate IPv6 services. The new nV technology provides additional
flexibility and support to optimize service delivery.
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At-a-Glance
“Telefonica is committed to
delivering the fastest, most
advanced mobile services
throughout our markets in Latin
America. Partnering with Cisco
ensures that we’ve got the
network foundation to meet
our business goals as we offer
our customers greater choice,
performance, and innovation.”
Javier Gavilán
Technology & Planning Director in CTO,
Telefonica
Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers combined with the Cisco Evolved
Service Platform (ESP) are designed to simplify and enhance the
operational and deployment aspects of delivering services, including:
• Residential any-play services, including cable, DSL, Passive Optical
Network (PON), and Ethernet to the premises (ETTx)
• Cloud optimized business VPN services
• Mobile aggregation and backhaul
Cisco ASR 9000 Routers
You can take full advantage of a converged, full-featured aggregation
platform designed for the mobile and business markets with the Cisco
ASR 903 Router. It has three-rack units (3RU) and is optimized for
small aggregation and remote point-of-presence (POP) applications.
The ASR 903 gives you full redundancy, shallow depth, low power
consumption, and high service scale. This router also offers broadband
aggregation, pre-aggregation for mobile applications, and Metro
Ethernet aggregation.
Some Additional Reasons Why the ASR 9000 Series
Is so Popular
• You’ll enjoy investment protection through industry leading bandwidth
capacities in the ASR 9900 series (e.g., it leads the industry in
10/100G densities with CPAK optics) and a roadmap to meet
demands of the future
• A SDN optimized routing platform supports standards-based
interfaces such as Netconf and YANG that are highly programmable
with intelligent virtualization capabilities to lower operational costs.
The fully virtualized ASR 9000 with Cisco IOS XRv is optimized for
cloud networking
• The ASR 9000 series combined with Cisco service orchestration
capabilities extend from the network into data center for instanton services, customer self-service capabilities, and a reduction of
service creation time from months to minutes
• Segment Routingsignificantly reduces the network complexity with a
re-invented MPLS architecture
Next Steps
Please visit http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/asr-9000series-aggregation-services-routers/index.html, www.cisco.com/go/
epn and www.cisco.com/go/asr9000 for more information.
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