The Lippis Report

By Cisco Systems

Today the aggregation edge of the network must be capable of managing massive video traffic growth and changes in the upstream and downstream mix resulting from Web 2.0 and collaborative business applications. Managing the ever-growing complexity of policy management and the integrity of the user experience is essential, yet emerging network requirements are occurring at a faster and faster rate. Service provider and enterprise networks are being transformed, and having the right solution at the network edge is increasingly important. This technological disruption has created new complexities and challenges for first-generation network edge designs. Cisco® has created a new router processor to enable the delivery of a new price/performance class for high-end enterprise customer premises, enterprise WAN, and service provider edge routing solutions: the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.

This paper describes the carrier-class characteristics of these routers and can provide technical decision makers, network engineers, and technically minded business development managers with a basic knowledge of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router architecture.