The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Embedded Services Processors (ESPs) are based on the innovative, industry-leading Cisco QuantumFlow Processor for next-generation forwarding and queuing in silicon. The Cisco ASR 1002-X Router, 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 Series ESP module, and the 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 Series ESP module introduce the second generation of the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor hardware and software architecture.
The 5-, 10-, 10-N-, 20-, 40-, 100-, and 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 Series ESPs (part numbers ASR1000-ESP5,ASR1000-ESP10, ASR1000-ESP10-N, ASR1000-ESP20, ASR1000-ESP40, ASR1000-ESP100, and ASR1000-ESP200, respectively) provide centralized forwarding-engine options for the Cisco ASR 1000 Series AggregationServices Routers. Additionally, the Cisco ASR 1002 Fixed Router includes a nonmodular, fixed ESP with throughput of 2.5 Gbps, and the Cisco ASR 1001 and ASR 1002-X Routers come with a nonmodular, fixed ESP with throughput of 2.5 Gbps (for ASR 1001) and 5 Gbps (for ASR 1002-X), upgradable with a software-activated performance upgrade license to 5 Gbps (for ASR 1001), and 10, 20, or 36 Gbps (for ASR 1002-X), respectively.
The Cisco ASR 1000 Series 10-N-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP10-N) is the nonencryption version of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 10-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP10). The Cisco ASR 1000 Series 10-N-Gbps ESP can support only noncryptographic Cisco IOS® Software images and will never support encryption capabilities such as IP Security (IPsec). In future releases, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 10-N-Gbps ESP may support secured network management features such as Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3).
| Feature | Specification |
| Performance | |
| Up to 15 Mpps | Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured |
| Up to 8 Mpps | For
the combination of the following commonly used features: IPv4 forwarding, IP
Multicast, ACL, QoS, RPF, load balancing, and Sampled NetFlow |
| Bandwidth | |
| Up to 10 Gbps | For
the combination of commonly used features + Firewall or NAT Shared by all Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor (ASR1000-SIP10) cards |
| Up to 4 Gbps | For plain IPsec encryption (not supported on the ASR1000-ESP10-N) |
| Scaling | |
| Access control | Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 50,000 ACEs per system |
| IP | Up
to: 1,000,000 IPv4 or 500,000 IPv6 routes Multicast: 64,000 routes and 1,000 groups |
| QoS | Flexible
number of queues per interface: ● Up to 128,000 queues ● Three levels of hierarchy ● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 1,000 policies 8-kbps policing and queuing granularity <100-microsecond latency for high-priority applications |
| Real-time traffic | Up to 4,000 CRTP sessions |
| Security | Up
to: IPsec: 10,000 tunnels (not supported on the ASR1000-ESP10-N) Firewall or NAT: 1,000,000 sessions and 100,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate |
| L3VPN | Up to 1,000 VRF instances |
| GRE | Up to 2,000 tunnels |
| Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) |
Up
to 9,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of media legs for a bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg) |
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