Cisco ASR 9000 Series 12-Port 100-Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards Data Sheet

Product overview

Cisco^® ASR 9900 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line cards deliver industry-leading high density and line-rate 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9900 Series Aggregation Services Router. These high-capacity line cards provide carrier-class reliability and are designed to remove bandwidth bottlenecks in the network that are caused by a large increase in Video on Demand (VoD), IPTV, point-to-point video, Internet video, and cloud services traffic. A single 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) port can now replace large 10 Gigabit Ethernet link aggregation bundles to simplify network operations. These 12-port 100 Gigabit line cards use 100G Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) optics. They also provide the flexibility to break 100-GE ports into four 10-GE channels for dense, 48 10-GE channels per line card.

Using a “green design,” these line cards let customers put an unused slice in power-saving mode to reduce power consumption. With these capabilities, the ASR 9900 Series 12-port 100-GE line cards (Figure 1) and routers provide the fundamental infrastructure for scalable Carrier Ethernet and IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) networks, promoting profitable business, residential, and mobile services.

Cisco ASR 9900 Series 12-Port 100 Gigabit Ethernet Line Card

Features and benefits

The ASR 9900 Series 12-port 100-GE line cards are fully compatible with the ASR 9904 Router, ASR 9906 Router, ASR 9910 Router, ASR 9912 Router, and ASR 9922 Router. These line cards are designed for transport integration in high-density 100G environments, deliver line-rate packet performance for IP and MPLS transport, and operate at an incredibly low-power profile, thereby lowering total network operating expenses.

The ASR 9900 Series can extend 100 Gigabit Ethernet transport over an IP-over-dense-wave-division-multiplexing (IPoDWDM) network when used with the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM transponder solution. Distances of up to 3000 kilometers can be achieved while using the optical protection capabilities of the DWDM network.

Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the Cisco ASR 9900 Series 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line cards. Specific feature and scale support is hardware- and software-dependent.

Table 1.           Features and Benefits of Cisco ASR 9900 Series 12-Port 100 Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards

Product specifications

Table 2 provides product specifications for the ASR 9900 Series 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line cards.

Table 2.           Product specifications

Ordering information

The ASR 9900 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line cards are available to order through two commercial models, the Flexible Consumption Model (FCM) and the Traditional Business Model.

The Flexible Consumption Model offers a built-in “pay-as-you-grow” structure that lowers initial start-up costs with the ability to add more capacity overtime as needed. Software subscription provides feature upgrades and helps defer the payment of software value for the initial purchase.

Table 3 provides ordering information for the ASR 9900 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line card with the Flexible Consumption Model

Table 3.           Ordering information for the ASR 9900 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line card with the Flexible Consumption Model

For more information, please refer to the Cisco IOS XR Software Flexible Consumption Model Data Sheet.

Table 4 provides ordering information for the ASR 9900 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line card with the Traditional Business Model. Optional per-line-card feature licenses are available 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 eight VRF instances and Advanced IP licenses to support up to full-scale VRF instances. This line card is price-optimized for a Label Switch Router (LSR) role, and there is advanced routing license available to exceed route scale of 128K v4 routes or 64K v6 routes

Table 4.           Ordering information for the ASR 9900 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line card with the Traditional Business Model

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