Cisco ASR 1001-X Router

Description

Get High-Performance WAN Aggregation

The Cisco ASR1001-X Router is a 1-rack-unit (1RU) platform targeted towards the low to medium Enterprise and Managed Service Provider use cases From Cisco ASR Routers .

Its compact form factor has a built-in Route Processor, Embedded Services Processor (ESP) and Shared Port Adapter (SIP) Interface processor.

Features and Capabilities

Running Cisco IOS XE Software, the Cisco ASR 1001-X shares a common operating system, feature set, and management and troubleshooting tools with the rest of Cisco ASR 1000 family.

Investment Protection

• Pay-as-you-grow forwarding thoughput is upgradable from 2.5 to 5,10, and 20 Gbps
• Built-in 2 X 10 GE accelerates 1 GE to 10 GE transition without additional hardware
• Expanded container app support is included for future virtual applications and services
• The compact 1RU form factor increases rack space and reduces power and cooling costs

High-Performance Security

The ASR 1001-X Router includes:

• High-performance security for crypto, firewall, and Network Address Translation (NAT) sessions
• Robust deep packet inspection performance at high throughputs for Cisco Application, Visibility, and Control

Flexible Deployment

The Cisco ASR1001-X Router provides Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Services to support Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS).

It also offers :

• Rich, feature-scalable Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) services for the enterprise
• Route reflector to increase network scaling