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Cisco ASR 9000

Cisco has released, as announced, some information on a new Access router platform. It is not as anticipated by many called the ASR14000, but it is, surprise, the  ASR9000.

At the time of writing, not all of the information has been published on the Cisco Website so I can’t  provide a lot of details yet, but to give you an idea, here are some facts as published in the brochure:

• 6 slot and 10 slot configuration
• 400 gigabits per slot
• 6.4 terabits per chassis
• IOS XR
• Cisco Advanced Video Services Modules (AVSM)
• Linecards are Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) ready
• Modular power supplies, brought online as required when capacity is increased

More details will follow once they have been published by Cisco.

There is a lot of speculation happening these days regarding a mysterious announcement on the Cisco website these days. The amount of information on the website is limited mainly to a short video clip and indicating that the full announcement will be next week on the November 11th.

Some of the rumours say that this will be the release of a new access router platform, rumored to be called the ASR 14000. There is not a lot of information out there officially so far.
cisconetblog.com had a short post about the new platform recently, but the post has been taken down shortly after. You can still find a copy of it in Google’s cache. The post confirmed that the new platform is based on the CRS-1 hardware (with some restrictions) and will be running IOS-XR.