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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers SIP and SPA Software Configuration Guide
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Overview of the SIP
Supported SIP Features
Supported SIP Features
The Cisco ASR1000-SIP10, is a high-performance, feature-rich SPA interface processor that functions
as a carrier card for shared port adapters (SPAs) on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services
Routers. The SIP is supported on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers, and is compatible with one or more
platform-independent SPAs. For more information on SPA compatibility, see the
“SIP and SPA
Compatibility” section on page 2-3.
This section provides a list of some of the primary features supported by the SIP hardware and software.
For feature compatibility information by SIP and SPA combination, and information about configuring
these features, see
Chapter 4, “Configuring the SIP.”
Cisco ASR1000-SIP10 Features
The Cisco ASR1000-SIP10 supports the standard FPD upgrade methods for the Cisco ASR 1000
Series Routers. For more information about FPD support, see
Chapter 26, “Upgrading
Field-Programmable Devices.”
Cisco ASR1000-SIP40 Features
The Cisco ASR1000-SIP40 supports upto 40 Gbps total bandwidth for the four SPA bays and 46 Gbps
sustained through carrier card when utilizing two four-link 6.25 GHz ESIs. Following are the features
of the Cisco ASR1000-SIP40:
• Supports 40 Gbps of nonoversubscribed throughput.
• Compatible with existing and future SPAs, ESPs, and RPs.
• Supports online-insertion-and-removal (OIR) of all SIP-10 SPAs and Cisco ASR1000-SIP40.
• Provides higher port density support of 48 point dual priority, and 96 point single priority.
• Enables enhanced QoS and timestamp support.
• Performs ingress packet prioritization based on Layer 2 or Layer 3 headers.
• Enables the flow-control the SPAs.
• Distributes line clocking reference from a single SPA to the RPs.
• Supports Onboard Failure Logging (OBFL).
• All the SPAs on Cisco ASR1000-SIP40 provide FPD support.
Note The Cisco ASR1000-SIP40 supports four half-heigh SPAs, two full-height SPAs, and a combination of
two half-height and one full-height SPAs. The Cisco ASR1000-SIP40 does not support double-wide
SPAs, double-high SPAs having two connectors.
Cisco IOS XE 2.2 Information added for the following SPAs:
• 2-Port and 4-Port OC-48c/STM-16 POS/RPR
SPA
• 1-Port Channelized STM-1/OC-3 SPA
Cisco IOS XE 2.1 First release.