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Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers offer service providers and enterprises industry-leading performance, service capabilities, reliability, and efficiencies in a compact form factor. Using an innovative new Cisco QuantumFlow processor, current and future services can be instantly turned on to operate at line rate without compromising network performance or availability.

Important Features

• Delivers secure, high-performance, and integrated software-enabled services (no service blades required), including multi-gigabit encryption, broadband, 20 Gbps firewall, Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR), Flexible Packet Matching and session border control
• Establishes new price/performance class for edge routers that deliver service integration for personalized residential "any play" and complex business services
• Provides powerful resiliency with convenient and cost-saving in-service software upgrade (ISSU) capability
• Offers software redundancy on non-redundant hardware with ASR1002 and ASR1004

Key Innovations

• Extends high availability to the edge by enabling in-service software upgrades, even for single-route processor configurations
• Delivers instant-on service by only requiring a software license to activate key services
• Enables enhanced operating efficiencies by using its compact form factor to reduce power consumption, space, and sparing requirements with integrated wire-rate services and compact design

Key Services

Enterprise Multi-service secure WAN aggregation and Internet gateway Integrated threat defense Application optimization Ethernet WAN

Service Provider Session border controller SP edge broadband SP edge: high-end route reflector Managed CPE

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Double the Performance of Advanced WAN Services The ESP-20G Embedded Services Processor doubles the performance of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series released just six months earlier. Read more... Cisco ASR 1000 Earns Miercom Certification Miercom found the Aggregated Services Router 1000 Series able to sustain 10G throughput, even with security features enabled. Read Test Report IDC White Paper: The Next-Generation Enterprise WAN Aggregation Router (PDF- 190 KB) This IDC white paper addresses the growing demands on the enterprise WAN, changing roles of the WAN head-end router, and key challenges to management. Cisco’s Next-Generation Network Processor Read how the industry's first fully integrated, programmable network processor enables the Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers to instantly deliver high-performance, edge-based services. > Read White Paper > View Flash Demo Tried and Proven: Test Report (PDF - 189KB) Isocore says the Cisco ASR 1000 Series delivers high-performance, scalable edge services for enterprises and service providers.