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1. The New ASR1001-HX---The Most Powerful Compact Service Router
The new ASR1001-HX is the most powerful compact services router in the
market today. It comes in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor that delivers up to
60 Gbps total system bandwidth. With four 10-GE ports, eight 1-GE ports, and
four configurable 10-GE and 1-GE ports, this router offers instant-on service
capabilities and on-demand crypto capability up to 29 Gbps.
In this article, we will introduce the new member of Cisco ASR 1000 family—
the ASR1001-HX. What kind of it?
(The ASR 1000 Series includes seven models: the 1-rack-unit (1RU) ASR
1001-X, ASR 1001-HX, the 2RU ASR 1002-X, ASR 1002-HX, the 4RU ASR 1004,
the 6RU ASR 1006 and ASR 1006-X, the 9RU ASR 1009-X, and the 13RU ASR
1013.)
The ASR 1001-HX Router supports software redundancy without
redundant hardware, just like Cisco ASR 1001-X, 1002-X, 1002-HX, and 1004
Routers. It is ideal for WAN aggregation or Internet edge devices, or
managed services.
For starter, the ‘H’ in ASR1001-HX represents ‘High-end’; so, it is a high-
end, fixed platform with the same 1RU form-factor. ASR1001-X is max’d at
20Gbps performance and ASR1002-X at 36Gbps, while ASR1001-HX starts at
44Gbps; in essence, ASR1001-HX is designed to address the market where
multiple 10GE interfaces are required as providers are moving from 1GE to
10GE circuits to accommodate the ever-increasing bandwidth needs due to
high bandwidth consuming applications such as video and social media.
Secondly, ASR1001-HX is designed to handle Ethernet based interfaces only;
the ASR1001-X and ASR1002-X, on the other hand, support SPAs with
legacy interfaces such as POS, ATM, T1/E1, T3/E3, etc. In short,
ASR1001-X and ASR1002-X are here to stay.
Now, let’s dive right into the ASR1001-HX and explore what this router can do
for you. With consolidated control plane (Route Processor), data plane
(Forwarding Processors), and built-in 10GE/1GE interfaces architecture,
ASR1001-HX is equipped with these powerful components and capabilities:

2.  Intel Gladden quad core running at 2.5 GHz–only one core is currently
used as control plane; the remaining 3 are not utilized, making them
perfect candidates for applications such as container, application
hosting, even for 3rd party applications.
 Either dual-AC or dual-DC or dual-HVDC Power Supplies (future), hot-
swappable and FRU-able from Back panel, providing 1+1 redundancy
for Power Supplies (PEMs)
 FRU-able crypto module (not hot swappable), coupled with “pay-as-
you-grow” crypto performance upgradable licenses, it provides 8Gbps
or 16Gbps crypto (IMIX) performance; for large (1400B) packets, it can
deliver up to 29Gbps crypto performance; best of all, you only pay for
up to 16Gbps crypto performance; anything above that, you get it for
free
 Suite-B encryption is also supported for diverse VPN security solutions.
 Single Yoda ASIC, the 2nd generation Cisco QFP technology which
is the heart of the ASR1001-HX data plane, containing 62 packet
processing engines, each engine can have 4 processing threads; this
means the ASR1001-HX can process 62 * 4 = 248 packets
simultaneously, providing 30+ MPPS (Million Packets Per-Second)
forwarding with universal k9 baseline feature set, yielding 60Gbps+
total system output performance for IPv4 & IPv6

3.  Supports up to 88 Gbps (8x10GE + 8x1GE built-in ports) input traffic
into the system; obviously the system is oversubscribed in this case;
however, just like all other existing platforms within ASR1000 product
family, ASR1001-HX is designed to handle oversubscription with
classification and scheduling engine
 In case you are not aware, out of the 16 built-in ports, 4 of them can
be configured as either 10GE or 1GE, providing additional level of
flexibility for future growth if you need to move from 1GE interface to
10GE interface
 MACSec is also supported on each of the 16 built-in 10GE or 1GE ports,
providing point-to-point and/or point-to-multipoint connection support
for DCI, Campus interconnect, and Hop-Spoke deployment topology
 With default 8GB memory, upgradable to 16GB, the ASR1001-HX can
scale up to 3.5 million IPv4 or IPv6 routes
 2 million Firewall or traditional NAT Sessions can be achieved at
linerate, generating 60Gbps FW/NAT performance
 Even if you were to use it as an AVC (Application Visibility Control,
which is our term for DPI – Deep Packet Inspection) appliance, the
ASR1001-HX can achieve up to 30Gbps performance
 When used as BNG, this 1RU form-factor router can terminate up to
29,000 BB sessions, plus 16,000 L2TP tunnels
 Last but not least, ASR1001-HX also supports IOS software redundancy
without redundant hardware, just like the rest of existing ASR1001-X,
1002-X, 1002-HX, and 1004 routers.
With its built-in four 10-GE ports, eight 1-GE ports, and four configurable 10-
GE / 1-GE ports, up to 60Gbps total system bandwidth, and the instant-on
service capabilities and on-demand crypto capability up to 29 Gbps (1400B),
the ASR 1001-HX is ideal for:
 WAN aggregation and secure WAN
 Internet edge
 Data center interconnect
 Intelligent WAN (IWAN)
 Managed Services
 Small to medium BNG

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