Cisco ASR 9000 Series Configuration Guidelines

ModificationRelease
Support was added for these VPLS features on the
ASR 9000 SIP-700 line card:
• MAC learning and forwarding.
• MAC address aging support
• MAC Limiting
• Split Horizon Group
• MAC address Withdrawal
• Flooding of unknown unicast, broadcast and
multicast packets
• Access pseudowire
• H-VPLS PW-access
• PW redundancy
Support was added for the G.8032 Ethernet Ring
Protection feature.
Release 4.1.0
Support was added for Flow Aware Transport (FAT)
Pseudowire feature.
Release 4.2.1
Support was added for these features:
• Pseudowire Headend (PWHE)
• Scale enhancements on ASR 9000 Enhanced
Ethernet line card:
• Support for 128000 pseudowires within
VPWS and VPLS
• Support for 128000 pseudowires across
VPLS and VPWS instances
• Support for upto 512 pseudowires in a
bridge
• Support for 128000 bundle attachment
circuits
• Support for 128000 VLANs
• L2VPN over GRE
Release 4.3.0
Support was added for:
• VC type 4 in VPLS with BGP Autodiscovery
• IPv6 support for PWHE
Release 4.3.1
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Cisco ASR 9000 Series Specifications

General

Series	ASR 9000
Category	Network Router
Modular Design	Yes
Redundancy	Yes (Hardware and Software)
Operating System	Cisco IOS XR
Interfaces/Ports	10G, 40G, 100G, 400G Ethernet
Expansion Slots	Varies by model
Routing Protocol	BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP
Management	CLI, SNMP, NETCONF
Power Supply	Redundant
Port Density	Varies by model
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Memory	Varies by model
Storage	Varies by model
Dimensions	Varies by model
Weight	Varies by model