Product Overview

The Cisco^® ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards deliver an industry-leading twenty-four 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router. These high-capacity line cards are designed to remove bandwidth bottlenecks in the network today that are caused by a large increase in video-on-demand (VoD), IPTV, point-to-point video, Internet video, and cloud services traffic. These line cards deliver economical, scalable, highly available, line-rate Ethernet and IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) edge services. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series line cards and routers are designed to provide the fundamental infrastructure for scalable Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS networks, allowing profitable business, residential, and mobile services (Figure 1).

Figure 1.    Cisco ASR Series 9000 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Card

Features and Benefits

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards are fully compatible with all Cisco ASR 9000 Series chassis, route switch processors (RSPs), and line cards. No hardware upgrade to the chassis or cooling system is required. Total bandwidth is dependent on the number and type of RSPs installed. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards are also fully compatible with the 22-slot Cisco ASR 9922 chassis.

Each line card provides simultaneous support for both Layer 2 and Layer 3 services and features, helping operators qualify and stock a single line card that can be deployed in any combination of Layer 2 and Layer 3 applications, thereby reducing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx), as well as reducing the time required to develop and deploy new services. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Ethernet line cards set a new standard for Layer 2 and Layer 3 service density and scale, allowing operators to offer predictable, managed transport services while optimizing the use of network assets.

The line cards, with their synchronization circuitry and dedicated backplane timing traces for accessing the RSP’s Stratum-3 subsystem, provide standards-based line-interface functions for delivering and deriving transport-class network timing, allowing support of network-synchronized services and applications such as mobile backhaul and time-division multiplexing (TDM) migration. Coupled with the proper RSP, the line cards can also be used for applications requiring IEEE 1588v2 synchronization services. Recognizing that real-time media dominate next-generation services, Cisco has integrated media-monitoring technology into the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Ethernet line cards. This multimedia technology allows real-time monitoring and statistics collection of real-time video and voice flows, facilitating proactive maintenance and management of today’s comprehensive media services.

Addressing the advantages of consolidating IP with the transport network, G.709 with Advanced Forward Error Correction (FEC) is provided. G.709 provides visibility into the transmission system to permit rapid detection and recovery from transmission-layer impairments. G.709 can also be configured for proactive protection if signal degradation is detected; it prevents traffic loss and link outages. The Advanced FEC extends transmission-layer performance, delivering extended performance over an amplified system without the cost of regeneration or transponders.

Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Ethernet line cards. Specific feature and scale support is hardware and software dependent.

Table 1.  Features and Benefits of Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards

Line Card Types

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards are available in Service Edge Optimized and Packet Transport Optimized variants.

• Service Edge Optimized line cards are designed for customer deployments requiring enhanced quality of service (QoS).
• Packet Transport Optimized line cards are designed for network deployments where basic QoS is required.

Different line card types may be mixed within the same system.

Feature licenses are also available to turn on advanced features on the line cards, as described in the «Software Licensing» section later in this document.

Product Specifications

Table 2 provides product specifications for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards.

Table 2.  Product Specifications

Pluggable Interfaces

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Ethernet line cards support a wide range of 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ pluggable interfaces. Please see the Cisco ASR 9000 Transceiver Modules: Line Card Support data sheet for a complete list.

Software Licensing

Line Card Feature Licenses

Both optimization versions of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet 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 8 VRF instances and Advanced IP licenses to support up to full-scale VRF instances. The Advanced Optical license enables G.709 and FEC on a per-line-card basis. The Advanced Video license enables the inline video monitoring feature on a per-line-card basis. Table 3 lists the line card feature licenses.

Table 3.  Feature Licenses for Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards

System-Level Feature Licenses

Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards also support the deployment of advanced features based on Cisco ASR 9000 Series system-level licenses. The Lawful Intercept license enables lawful intercept for surveillance of packet streams that flow through Cisco ASR 9000 Series ports. The Advanced Mobile license enables Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588-2008 protocols to distribute precision time and frequency across the network. The Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) license enables high-scale Ethernet BNG with session and subscriber awareness. Inline video monitoring on the line cards can also be enabled using a system-level Advanced Video license. Table 4 lists the system licenses supported by the line cards.

Table 4.  System-Level Feature Licenses Supported by Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards

Ordering Information

Table 5 provides ordering information for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards. For software license part numbers, see the preceding Tables 3 and 4.

Table 5.  Ordering Information

Downloading the Software

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