Data sheet

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Cisco ASR 1000 Series

Embedded Services
Processors

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Contents
Product overview 3
Platform overview 4
Features and benefits 5
Use cases 6
Platform support and compatibility 7
Product specifications 12
System requirements 21
Performance and Scaling 23
Ordering information 34
Cisco Services 34
Warranty information 34
Cisco Capital 34
For more information 35
Document history 36

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Product overview
The Cisco® ASR 1000 Series Embedded Services Processors (ESPs) handle all the network data-plane traffic
processing tasks of Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. These ESPs allow the activation of
concurrent enhanced network services, such as cryptography, firewall, Network Address Translation (NAT),
Quality of Service (QoS), NetFlow, and many others while maintaining line speeds. Figure 1 shows the Cisco
ASR 1000 Series ESP 100 and ESP 200.

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers are placed at the WAN edge of your enterprise data center or large office, as
well as in service provider Points Of Presence (POPs). The routers rely on the power of the ESPs to aggregate
multiple traffic flows and network services, including encryption and traffic management, and forward them
across WAN connections at line speeds. With router options that run from 2.5 to 200 Gbps, the Cisco ASR
Family contains many models and licensing options to meet the speed and budget requirements of different
types of organizations and various-sized locations.

The Cisco ASR 1000 ESP components of these routers accelerate service delivery using parallel processing.
The ESPs are based on the Cisco Flow Processor (FP) for next-generation forwarding and queuing in silicon.
They operate at 20-, 40-, 100-, and 200-Gbps data-plane forwarding throughput rates. Together, the Cisco
ASR 1001-X, ASR 1001-HX, ASR 1002-HX, and ASR 1002-X Routers and 100- and 200-Gbps ESPs introduce
the second generation of the Cisco FP hardware and software architecture. With FP-based ESPs at their core,
ASR 1000 Routers accomplish the following:

● Handle all baseline packet routing operations, including MAC address classification, Layer 2 and Layer 3
forwarding, QoS classification, and NetFlow packet accounting
● Perform advanced services such as IP Security (IPsec) encryption, Network Address Translation (NAT),
firewall, AppNav, Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC), Performance Routing (PfR), and Locator
ID Separation Protocol (LISP); they offer diverse feature Layer 2 connectivity options such as Ethernet
over MPLS (EoMPLS), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), and
Virtual Extensible LAN Services (VXLAN)

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Platform overview
The following embedded services processors are supported on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers:

● Cisco ASR 1000 Series 20-Gbps Embedded Services Processor

● Cisco ASR 1000 Series 40-Gbps Embedded Services Processor
● Cisco ASR 1000 Series 100-Gbps Embedded Services Processor
● Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps Embedded Services Processor

Figure 1.
Cisco ASR 1000 Series ESP 100 and ESP 200

Figure 2.
Cisco ASR 1000 Series ESP 100-X and ESP 200-X

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Features and benefits
The main engine of the ESP is the Cisco FP, the industry’s first programmable and application-aware network
processor. The Cisco FP forms the overall hardware and software architecture of the ESP. It consolidates up to
256 customized packet-processor cores (900 MHz to 1.5 GHz) into a single processor. The parallel processing
capability eliminates the need for additional service blades inside the router, because all processing is
performed on the FP. As a result, the ESPs enable the ASR 1000s to support the following functions and
features with high performance:

● Forwarding, traffic management, and services

● Large-scale parallel processing with centralized shared memory to achieve low-latency packet
processing
● High-performance Deep-Packet Inspection (DPI) with full visibility into the entire Layer 2 frame, including
payload
● Rapid feature development with ANSI-C software development framework
● Up to 200-Gbps system throughput and up to 130 millions of packets per second (mpps) to address
WAN aggregation needs
● Hardware-assisted cryptographic performance to yield up to 78 Gbps of throughput to enable secure
WAN access and compliance
● Line-speed zone-based firewall that provides up to 200 Gbps of throughput and 6-mpps firewall
sessions
● DPI, Cisco IOS® Software Zone-Based Firewall Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detection and
prevention, and control-plane protection
● Cisco Session Border Control (SBC) for terminating and interconnecting media terminations with full
accounting and flow control
● Cisco Multicast Visual Quality Experience (VQE) and video Call Admission Control (CAC) for enhanced
user experiences
● Hardware-accelerated traffic classification and traffic shaping with support for up to 464,000 queues
● Flexible traffic prioritization and efficient WAN bandwidth use with minimum, maximum, and excess
bandwidth allocation with priority propagation

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Use cases
The ESPs address the following applications and use cases:

● Service provider broadband: The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router serves as a broadband aggregation
router that terminates up to 64,000 subscriber sessions (refer to specific tables to get actual scale
details). It supports features such as SBC for Voice over IP (VoIP) and video services (including Cisco
TelePresence® communications systems) and hardware-assisted per-user firewall for security.
● Service provider-managed Customer Premises Equipment (CPE): The Cisco ASR 1000 Router serves as
a WAN aggregation router with high-density Gigabit Ethernet or WAN link aggregation and 10 Gigabit
Ethernet uplink capabilities. Key benefits are Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN functions and line-rate IP Multicast
support for triple-play (data, voice, and video) deployments.
● Multimedia Provider Edge (PE): The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router interfaces with enterprise and service
provider-provisioned voice and multimedia services directly at the edge. You do not need an overlay
network, network appliances, or service blades, lowering Operating Expenses (OpEx) and offering
flexible deployment models. This router supports protected signaling for both voice and video services
and facilitates 32,000 voice calls concurrent with up to 200 Gbps of data traffic with accounting, firewall,
and call-quality features enabled.
● Enterprise WAN aggregation: At the WAN aggregation headend, the Cisco ASR 1000 Router facilitates a
branch-office architecture that offers excellent investment protection with services and scale. Solution
benefits consist of a multigigabit encryption rate (up to 78-Gbps IPsec cryptography throughput) and
optimization of the WAN to route around brownouts in the service provider network to guarantee mission
critical applications.
● Enterprise Internet gateway: As an Internet gateway, the ASR 1000 delivers multigigabit Cisco IOS
Firewall capability without the need for service blades. All firewall processing occurs in silicon 2.5-, 5-,
10-, 20-, 40-, 100-, or 200-Gbps speeds. In addition, the router provides high-speed logging through
Sampled NetFlow Version 9 and ongoing forwarding with baseline and firewall features enabled.
● Enterprise Intelligent WAN (IWAN): The scalable Cisco ASR 1000 Router smoothly enables the intelligent
WAN architecture that allows enterprises to reduce expensive WAN costs by adopting business-class
Internet as a transport while maintaining privacy, confidentiality with crypto, and regulatory compliance
with a zone-based firewall.
● Enterprise Data Center Interconnect (DCI): The scalable Cisco ASR 1000 Router securely enables the
interconnection of data centers to the cloud to consume services and migrate workloads to provide
disaster recovery and normal data center management operations.

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Platform support and compatibility
To benefit from feature-rich services of Cisco ASR 1000 Routers, Cisco IOS XE Software Release 2.4 or
later is required. For the newly added Cisco ASR 1001-X Router, Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.12
or later is required. For ESP data-plane throughput compatibilities by ASR platform, refer to Tables 1
through 8.

Table 1. Cisco ASR 1000 Series Integrated ESP in Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1002-HX Router Chassis (ESP integrated; up to 100 Gbps through software- ASR1002-HX
activated port licenses)

Table 2. Cisco ASR 1000 Series Integrated ESP in the ASR 1001-HX chassis compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1001-HX Router Chassis (ESP integrated; up to 60 Gbps through software- ASR1001-HX
activated port licenses)

Table 3. Cisco ASR 1000 Series Integrated ESP in Cisco ASR 1001-X chassis compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1001-X Router Chassis (ESP integrated; upgradable from 2.5-Gbps to 20- ASR1001-X
Gbps via software activated license)

Table 4. Cisco ASR 1000 Series Integrated ESP in Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1002-X Router Chassis* (ESP integrated; upgradable from 5-Gbps to 36-Gbps ASR1002-X
via software activated license)

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 10-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

Table 5. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 20-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP20) compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1004 Router Chassis ASR1004

Cisco ASR 1006 Router Chassis* ASR1006

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 1, 4GB DRAM ASR1000-RP1

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 2, 8GB DRAM ASR1000-RP2

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 40 ASR1000-SIP10

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 20-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

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Table 6. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 40-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP40) compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1004 Router Chassis ASR1004

Cisco ASR 1006 Router Chassis* ASR1006

Cisco ASR 1006-X Router Chassis* ASR1006-X

Cisco ASR 1009-X Router Chassis* ASR1009-X

Cisco ASR 1013 Router Chassis* ASR1013

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 2 ASR1000-RP2

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 3 ASR1000-RP3

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 10 ASR1000-SIP10

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 40 ASR1000-SIP40

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 6x10GE ASR1000-6TGE

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 2x10GE + 20x1GE ASR1000-2T + 20X1GE

Cisco ASR1000-X 1100W AC Power Supply ASR1000X-AC-1100W

Cisco ASR1000-X 950W DC Power Supply ASR1000X-DC-950W

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 40-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

Table 7. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 100-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP100) compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1006 Router Chassis* ASR1006

Cisco ASR 1006-X Router Chassis* ASR1006-X

Cisco ASR 1009-X Router Chassis* ASR1009-X

Cisco ASR 1013 Router Chassis* ASR1013

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 2 ASR1000-RP2

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 3 ASR1000-RP3

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 10 ASR1000-SIP10

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 40 ASR1000-SIP40

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 6x10GE ASR1000-6TGE

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 2x10GE + 20x1GE ASR1000-2T+20X1GE

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 Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card, 100G Modular Interface Processor ASR1000-MIP100

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter (QSFP) EPA-QSFP-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x40GE e-Delivery Port License for EPA-1X40GE L-FLA1-EPA-1X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (breakout cable) EPA-CPAK-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 10x10GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-10X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 18x1GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-18X1GE

Cisco ASR1000 1600w AC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-AC

Cisco ASR1000 1600w DC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-DC

Cisco ASR1000-X 1100W AC Power Supply ASR1000X-AC-1100W

Cisco ASR1000-X 950W DC Power Supply ASR1000X-DC-950W

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

Table 8. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP200) compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1009-X Router Chassis* ASR1009-X

Cisco ASR 1013 Router Chassis* ASR1013

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 2, 8GB DRAM ASR1000-RP2

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 3 ASR1000-RP3

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 40 ASR1000-SIP40

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 6x10GE ASR1000-6TGE

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 2x10GE + 20x1GE ASR1000-2T+20X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card, 100G Modular Interface Processor ASR1000-MIP100

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter (QSFP) EPA-QSFP-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (Native QSFP) EPA-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-1X40GE

(2 physical QSFP ports – optional license to enable 2 nd
port)

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (breakout cable) EPA-CPAK-2X40GE

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 Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1000 10x10GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-10X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 18x1GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-18X1GE

Cisco ASR1000 1600w AC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-AC

Cisco ASR1000 1600w DC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-DC

Cisco ASR1000-X 1100W AC Power Supply ASR1000X-AC-1100W

Cisco ASR1000-X 950W DC Power Supply ASR1000X-DC-950W

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

Table 9. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 100-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP100-X) compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1006-X Router Chassis* ASR1006-X

Cisco ASR 1009-X Router Chassis* ASR1009-X

Cisco ASR 1013 Router Chassis* ASR1013

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 3 ASR1000-RP3

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 40 ASR1000-SIP40

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 6x10GE ASR1000-6TGE

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 2x10GE + 20x1GE ASR1000-2T+20X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card, 100G Modular Interface Processor ASR1000-MIP100

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter (QSFP) EPA-QSFP-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x40GE e-Delivery Port License for EPA-1X40GE L-FLA1-EPA-1X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (Native QSFP) EPA-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (breakout cable) EPA-CPAK-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 10x10GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-10X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 18x1GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-18X1GE

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 Product name Part number

Cisco ASR1000 1600w AC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-AC

Cisco ASR1000 1600w DC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-DC

Cisco ASR1000-X 1100W AC Power Supply ASR1000X-AC-1100W

Cisco ASR1000-X 950W DC Power Supply ASR1000X-DC-950W

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

Table 10. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP200-X) compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1006-X Router Chassis* ASR1006-X

Cisco ASR 1009-X Router Chassis* ASR1009-X

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 3 ASR1000-RP3

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 40 ASR1000-SIP40

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 6x10GE ASR1000-6TGE

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 2x10GE + 20x1GE ASR1000-2T+20X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card, 100G Modular Interface Processor ASR1000-MIP100

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter (QSFP) EPA-QSFP-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (Native QSFP) EPA-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-1X40GE

(2 physical QSFP ports – optional license to enable 2nd port)

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (Native QSFP) EPA-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (breakout cable) EPA-CPAK-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 10x10GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-10X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 18x1GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-18X1GE

Cisco ASR1000 1600w AC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-AC

Cisco ASR1000 1600w DC Power Supply ASR1013/06-PWR-DC

Cisco ASR1000-X 1100W AC Power Supply ASR1000X-AC-1100W

Cisco ASR1000-X 950W DC Power Supply ASR1000X-DC-950W

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

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Table 11. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps ESP (ASR1000-ESP200-X) compatible hardware

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1006-X Router Chassis* ASR1006-X

Cisco ASR 1009-X Router Chassis* ASR1009-X

Cisco ASR 1000 Route Processor 3 ASR1000-RP3

Cisco ASR 1000 SPA Interface Processor 40 ASR1000-SIP40

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 6x10GE ASR1000-6TGE

Cisco ASR 1000 Fixed Ethernet Line Card, 2x10GE + 20x1GE ASR1000-2T+20X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card, 100G Modular Interface Processor ASR1000-MIP100

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x100GE Ethernet Port Adapter (QSFP) EPA-QSFP-1X100GE

Cisco ASR 1000 1x40GE e-Delivery Port License for EPA-1X40GE L-FLA1-EPA-1X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 2x40GE Ethernet Port Adapter (breakout cable) EPA-CPAK-2X40GE

Cisco ASR 1000 10x10GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-10X1GE

Cisco ASR 1000 18x1GE Ethernet Port Adapter EPA-18X1GE

Cisco ASR1000-X 1100W AC Power Supply ASR1000X-AC-1100W

Cisco ASR1000-X 950W DC Power Supply ASR1000X-DC-950W

*
Supports 1 + 1 redundancy when configured with two 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP modules.

Product specifications
Tables 12 through 16 list specifications of all ESPs in the ASR 1000 Series product family.

Table 12. Specifications of integrated ESP module in Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis

Feature Specification

Product compatibility The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis.

Software compatibility Cisco IOS XE Software Release 16.2.S or later is required (minimum software release
for the integrated ESP module in the Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis).

Protocols Refer to Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.16S (or later) protocol support.

Connectivity Refer to the Cisco ASR 1000 Series EPA data sheet

Memory 4-GB Cisco FP Resource Memory, 80-Mb Ternary Content Addressable Memory
(TCAM), and 1-GB packet buffet memory; the integrated ESP shares the same
control memory on the route processor

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Feature Specification

Reliability and availability Software redundancy support: Yes

Hardware redundancy support: No
Support for Online Insertion and Removal (OIR)
Support for Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) and Stateful Switchover (SSO)

MIBs RFC 2737 compliant

Network management Network management through Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor:
● Telnet (Command-Line Interface [CLI])
● Console port (through the CLI)
● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (RFC 2665)

Status LED descriptions No LED Label LED Color-State Behavior Description

- PWR Power Solid green All power rails are within

specifications

Off Off, the route is in standby

mode

- STAT System status Solid green Cisco IOS Software has

successfully booted

- - - Yellow BOOT ROMmon has

successfully loaded

Red System failure; on power up,

turned off by software

Physical dimensions Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis.
(H x W x D)

Power Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis.

Approvals and compliance Same as for Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis because the ESP module is integrated in
the chassis

Environmental Same as for Cisco ASR 1002-HX chassis because the ESP module is integrated in
the chassis

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Table 13. Specifications of integrated ESP module in the Cisco ASR 1001-HX chassis

Feature Specification

Product compatibility The ESP module is integrated in the ASR 1001-HX chassis.

Software compatibility Cisco IOS XE Software Release 16.3.S or later is required (minimum software release
for the integrated ESP module in the ASR 1001-HX chassis).

Protocols Refer to Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.16S (or later) protocol support.

Connectivity Refer to the ASR 1000 Series EPA data sheet

Memory 4-GB Cisco FP Resource Memory, 40-Mb ternary content addressable memory
(TCAM), and 512-MB packet buffet memory; the integrated ESP shares the same
control memory on the route processor

Reliability and availability Software redundancy support: Yes

Hardware redundancy support: No
Support for Online Insertion and Removal (OIR)
Support for Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) and Stateful Switchover (SSO)

MIBs RFC 2737 compliant

Network management Network management through the ASR 1000 Series Route Processor:
● Telnet (Command-Line Interface [CLI])

● Console port (through the CLI)

● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (RFC 2665)

Status LED descriptions No LED Label LED Color-State Behavior Description

- PWR Power Solid green All power rails are within

specifications

Off Off, the route is in standby mode

- STAT System status Solid green Cisco IOS Software has

successfully booted

- - - Yellow BOOT ROMmon has successfully

loaded

Red System failure; on power up,

turned off by software

Physical dimensions Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the ASR 1001-HX chassis.
(H x W x D)

Power Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the ASR 1001-HX chassis.

Approvals and compliance Same as for ASR 1001-HX chassis because the ESP module is integrated in the
chassis

Environmental Same as for ASR 1001-HX chassis because the ESP module is integrated in the
chassis

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Table 14. Specifications of Integrated ESP module in Cisco ASR 1001-X chassis

Feature Specification

Product compatibility The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1001-X chassis.

Software compatibility Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.12.0S or later

Protocols Refer to Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.12.0S (or later) protocol support.

Connectivity Refer to Cisco ASR 1000 Series SIP data sheet for SPA support. The SIP is integrated
in the Cisco ASR 1001-X chassis.

Memory 4-GB shared Cisco FP Resource Memory, 10-Mb TCAM; the integrated ESP shares
the same control memory on the route processor

Reliability and availability Software redundancy support: Yes

Hardware redundancy support: No
Support for OIR
Support for NSF and SSO

MIBs RFC 2737 compliant

Network management Network management through Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor:
● Telnet (CLI)
● Console port (through the CLI)
● SNMP (RFC 2665)

Status LED descriptions LED Label LED Color-State Behavior Description

PWR Power Solid green All power rails are within specifications

Off Off, the route is in standby mode

STAT System status Solid green Cisco IOS Software has successfully
booted

Yellow BOOT ROMmon has successfully loaded

Red System failure; on power up, turned off

by software

Physical dimensions Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1001-X chassis.
(H x W x D)

Power Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1001-X chassis.

Approvals and compliance Same as for other ESP modules

Environmental Same as for other ESP modules

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Table 15. Specifications of Cisco ASR 1000 Series 5-, 10-, 10-N-, 20-, 40-, 100-, and 200-Gbps ESP, ESP100-X and
ESP200-X modules

Feature Specification

Product compatibility For 2.5- and 5-Gbps integrated Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1001 Router chassis
only
For 5-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1002 Router chassis only
For 10-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1002, ASR 1004, and ASR 1006 Router
chassis
For 10-N-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1002, ASR 1004, and ASR 1006
Router chassis
For 20-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1004 and ASR 1006 Router chassis
For 40-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1004, ASR 1006, ASR 1006-X, ASR
1009-X and ASR 1013 Router chassis
For 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1006, ASR 1006-X, ASR 1009-X and
ASR 1013 Router chassis; requires the Cisco ASR 1000 1600W AC or DC Power Supply
(ASR1013/06-PWR-AC or ASR1013/06-PWR-DC, respectively)
For 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: ASR 1009-X Cisco ASR 1013 Router chassis only
For 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP-X: ASR 1006-X, ASR 1009-X and ASR 1013 Router
chassis only
For 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP-X: ASR 1006-X and ASR 1009-X Router chassis
only

Software compatibility Cisco IOS XE Software Release 2.1 (minimum software release for 5- and 10-Gbps
ESPs)
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 2.2 or later (minimum software release for 20-Gbps
ESP)
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.1.0S or later (minimum software release for 40-Mbps
ESP)
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.2.0S or later (minimum) software release for 40-Gbps
ESP support on
Cisco ASR 1004
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.2.0S or later (minimum software release for 2.5- and
5-Gbps integrated ESP support on Cisco ASR 1001)
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.7.1S or later (minimum) software release for 100-
Gbps ESP support
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.10.0S or later (minimum) software release for 200-
Gbps ESP support
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 17.2.1r (minimum) or later software release for 100-
Gbps ESP-X support
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 17.2.1r (minimum) or later software release for 200-
Gbps ESP-X support

Protocols Refer to Cisco IOS XE Software Releases 2.1, 2.2, 3.1.0S, and 3.1.0S (or later) protocol
support

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Feature Specification

Connectivity Refer to Cisco ASR 1000 Series SIP data sheet for SPA support

Memory For 2.5- and 5-Gbps integrated ESP in Cisco ASR 1001: 256-MB Cisco FP, 1-GB
DRAM, 5-Mb TCAM, and 64-MB packet buffer memory
For 5-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 256-MB Cisco FP, 1-GB DRAM, 5-Mb TCAM, and
64-MB packet buffer memory
For 10-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 512-MB Cisco FP, 2-GB DRAM, 10-Mb TCAM, and
128 MB packet buffer memory
For 10-N-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 512-MB Cisco FP, 2-GB DRAM, 10-Mb TCAM,
and 128 MB packet buffer memory
For 20-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 1-GB Cisco FP, 4-GB DRAM, 40-Mb TCAM, and
256-MB packet buffer memory
For 40-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 1-GB Cisco FP, 8-GB DRAM, 40-Mb TCAM, and
256-MB packet buffer memory
For 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 4-GB Cisco FP, 16-GB DRAM, 80-Mb TCAM, and
1-GB packet buffer memory
For 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 8-GB Cisco FP, 32-GB DRAM, 2x80-Mb TCAM,
and 2-GB packet buffer memory
For 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP-X: 32-GB Cisco FP, 16-GB DRAM, 80-Mb TCAM,
and 1.4-GB packet buffer memory
For 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP-X: 64-GB Cisco FP, 32-GB DRAM, 2x80-Mb
TCAM, and 2.8-GB packet buffer memory

Reliability and availability For 10-, 10-N-, 20-, 40-, 100-, and 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESPs: High-availability
1 + 1 redundancy in dual ESP configuration in combination with Cisco ASR 1006, ASR
1006-X, ASR 1009-X or ASR 1013 Router chassis
Support for OIR
Support for NSF and SSO
Support for In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) with Cisco ASR 1006, ASR 1006-X,
ASR 1009-X and ASR 1013 in combination with dual route processors and dual ESPs

MIBs RFC 2737 compliant

Network management Network management through Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor:
● Telnet (CLI)
● Console port (through the CLI)
● SNMP (RFC 2665)

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Feature Specification

Status LED descriptions No LED Label LED Color-State Behavior Description

- PWR Power Solid green All power rails are within

specifications

Off Off, the route is in standby mode

- STAT System status Solid green Cisco IOS Software has

successfully booted

- - - Yellow BOOT ROMmon has successfully

loaded

- - - Red System failure; on power up,

turned off by software

- ACTV Activity Green Lit when this is the active route

processor

- STBY Standby Yellow Lit when this is the standby route

processor

Physical dimensions For 10-, 10-N-, 20-, 40-, and 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESPs: 0.92 x 16.7 x 14.19 in.
(H x W x D) (0.023 x 0.428 x 0.369m)
For 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 2.44 x 16.7 x 14.19 in. (0.062 x 0.428 x 0.369m)

Power For 5-, 10-, and 10-N-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESPs: 188W maximum (typical: 140W)
For 20-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 230W maximum (typical: 150W)
For 40-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 267W maximum (typical: 227W)
For 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 350W maximum (typical: 250W)
For 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 625W maximum (typical: 450W)
For 100-Gbps (100-X) Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 415W maximum (typical: 285W)
For 200-Gbps (200-X) Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: 550W maximum (typical: 390W)

Approvals and compliance Safety

● UL60950 and CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950. Information technology equipment
● AS/NZS 60950
● IEC/EN 60950 Information technology equipment
● 73/23/EEC

Electromagnetic Emissions Certification

● AS/NZ 3548: 1995 (including AMD I + II) Class A
● EN55022: 1998 Class A
● CISPR 22: 1997
● EN55022: 1994 (including AMD I + II)
● 47 CFR Part 15: 2000 (FCC) Class A
● VCCI V-3/01.4 Class A

● CNS-13438: 1997 Class A

● GR1089: 1997 (including Rev. 1: 1999)

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Feature Specification

Immunity
● EN300386: 2000-TNE EMC requirements; product family standard; high priority of service;
central office and non-central office locations
● EN50082-1: 1992/1997
● EN50082-2: 1995-Generic Immunity Standard, Heavy Industrial
● CISPR24: 1997
● EN55024: 1998-Generic ITE immunity standard
● EN61000-4-2: 1995 + AMD I + II ESD, Level 4/8 kV contact, 15 kV air
● IEC-1000-4-3: 1995 + AMD 1-Radiated Immunity, 10 V/m
● IEC-1000-4-4: 1995-Electrical Fast Transients, Level 4/4 kV/B
● IEC-1000-4-5: 1995 + AMD 1-DC Surge-Class 3; AC Surge-Class 4
● EN61000-4-6: 1996 + AMD 1-RF conducted immunity, 10V rms
● EN61000-4-11: 1995-Voltage Dips and Sags
● ETS300 132-2: 1996 + corrigendum, December 1996
● GR1089:1997 (including Rev1: 1999)

Network Equipment Building Standards

The module meets the following Networking Equipment Building Standards (NEBS):
● GR-1089-CORE
● GR-63-CORE

● European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI)

● ETSI 300 386-1 - Levels for equipment with a "high priority of service" that is installed in
"locations other than telecommunication centers"
● ETSI 300 386-2:1997 - Levels for equipment with a "high priority of service" that is installed in
"locations other than telecommunication centers"
● ETSI 300 132-2: December 1994 - Power supply interfaces at the input to telecommunications
equipment Sections 4.8 and 4.9

Environmental Storage temperature: -38 to 150°F (-40 to 70°C)

Operating temperature, nominal: 41 to 104°F (5 to 40°C)
Operating temperature, short-term: 23 to 131°F (-5 to 55°C)
Storage Relative Humidity (RH): 5 to 95% RH
Operating humidity, nominal: 5 to 85% RH
Operating humidity, short-term: 5 to 90% RH
Operating altitude: -60 to 4000m (up to 2000m conforms to IEC/EN/UL/CSA 60950
requirements)

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Table 16. Specifications of Integrated ESP module in Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis

Feature Specification

Product compatibility The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis.

Software compatibility Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.7.0S or later

Protocols Refer to Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.7.0S (or later) protocol support

Connectivity Refer to Cisco ASR 1000 Series SIP data sheet for SPA support. The SIP is integrated in
the Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis

Memory 1-GB Cisco FP Resource Memory, 40-Mb TCAM, and 512-MB packet buffet memory.
The integrated ESP shares the same control memory on the route processor

Reliability and availability Software redundancy support: Yes

Hardware redundancy support: No
Support for OIR
Support for NSF and SSO

MIBs RFC 2737 compliant

Network management Network management through Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor:
● Telnet (CLI)
● Console port (through the CLI)
● SNMP (RFC 2665)

Status LED descriptions LED Label LED Color-State Behavior Description

PWR Power Solid green All power rails are within specifications

Off Off, the route is in standby mode

STAT System status Solid green Cisco IOS Software has successfully
booted

- - Yellow BOOT ROMmon has successfully loaded

- - Red System failure; on power up, turned off by

software

Physical dimensions Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis.
(H x W x D)

Power Not applicable: The ESP module is integrated in the Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis.

Approvals and compliance Same as for other ESP modules

Environmental Same as for other ESP modules

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System requirements
Table 17 details the system requirements of the ASR 1000 ESPs.

Table 17. System requirements

System Requirement

Hardware 2.5- and 5-Gbps ESPs integrated in Cisco ASR 1001 chassis; default performance is 2.5
Gbps and can be upgraded to 5 Gbps with a license through software activation
2.5-Gbps ESP integrated in Cisco ASR 1002-F chassis
5-, 10-, 20-, and 36-Gbps ESPs integrated in Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis; default
performance is 5 Gbps and can be upgraded to 10, 20, or 36 Gbps with a license through
software activation
For 5-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1002 Router chassis only
For 10- and 10-N-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESPs: Cisco ASR 1002 Router chassis
or
Cisco ASR 1004 Router chassis with one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route
Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor
or
Cisco ASR 1006 Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor
For 20-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1004 Router chassis with one instance of
Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA
Interface Processor
or
Cisco ASR 1006 Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor
For 40-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1006 Router chassis with at least one
instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000
Series SPA Interface Processor
or
Cisco ASR 1004 Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor
or
Cisco ASR 1013 Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor
or
Cisco ASR 1006-X Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor or
Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card
or
Cisco ASR 1009-X Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor or
Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card
For 100-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1006 Router chassis with at least one
instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000
Series SPA Interface Processor

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 System Requirement

or
Cisco ASR 1013 Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor or
Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card
or
Cisco ASR 1006-X Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor or Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card
or
Cisco ASR 1009-X Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor
For 200-Gbps Cisco ASR 1000 ESP: Cisco ASR 1013 Router chassis with at least one
instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000
Series SPA Interface Processor or Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card
or
Cisco ASR 1009-X Router chassis with at least one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Route Processor and one instance of Cisco ASR 1000 Series SPA Interface Processor or
Cisco ASR 1000 Ethernet Line Card

Software Cisco IOS XE Software Release 2.1 (for 5- and 10-Gbps ESPs only) or later (10-N- and
20-Gbps ESPs: Release 2.2 or later)
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 2.4 (for 2.5-Gbps ESP integrated in the Cisco ASR 1002-F
chassis)
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.1.0S (for 40-Gbps ESP) or later
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.2.0S (for 40-Gbps ESP support on Cisco ASR 1004) or
later
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.2.0S (for integrated ESP in Cisco ASR 1001 chassis) or
later
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.7.0S (for integrated ESP in Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis)
or later
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.7.1S or later for 100-Gbps ESP
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.10.0S or later for 200-Gbps ESP
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 16.2.1S or later for ASR 1002-HX ESP
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 16.3.1S or later for ASR 1001-HX ESP

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Performance and Scaling
All performance numbers are based on the RFC-2544 test methodology.

Table 18 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the ASR 1002-HX chassis with an integrated
ESP module.

Table 18. Cisco ASR 1002-HX with integrated ESP module

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 78 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 39 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 400,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 58,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 3,500,000 IPv4 or 3,000,000 IPv6 routes

Multicast: 64,000 routes and 44,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 232,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy
● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 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 tunnel protection: 8,000 tunnels
● Firewall: 6,000,000 sessions and 220,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● NAT: 6,000,000 sessions and 300,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate

● Carrier-Grade NAT: 12,000,000 sessions

L3VPN Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Element Up to 64,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
(SP Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 19 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the ASR 1001-HX chassis with an integrated
ESP module.

Table 19. Cisco ASR 1001-HX with integrated ESP module

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 43 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on the features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 19 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4000 unique ACLs and 120,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 29,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 1,000,000 IPv4 or 1,000,000 IPv6 routes with 8-GB memory
● 3,500,000 IPv4 or 3,000,000 IPv6 routes with 16-GB memory

Multicast: 64,000 routes and 4000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 116,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy
● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 policies

8-kbps policing and queuing granularity

Less than 100-microsecond latency for high-priority applications

Real-time traffic Up to 2000 CRTP sessions

Security Up to:
● IPSec tunnel protection: 8000 tunnels
● Firewall: 2,000,000 sessions
● NAT: 2,000,000 sessions
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 4,000,000 sessions
● 200,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate

L3VPN Up to 4000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Element Up to 10,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
(Enterprise Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 20 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the ASR 1001-HX chassis with an integrated
ESP module.

Table 20. Cisco ASR 1001-HX with integrated ESP module

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 43 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on the features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 19 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4000 unique ACLs and 120,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 29,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 1,000,000 IPv4 or 1,000,000 IPv6 routes with 8-GB memory
● 3,500,000 IPv4 or 3,000,000 IPv6 routes with 16-GB memory

Multicast: 64,000 routes and 4000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 116,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy
● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 policies

8-kbps policing and queuing granularity

Less than 100-microsecond latency for high-priority applications

Real-time traffic Up to 2000 CRTP sessions

Security Up to:
● IPSec tunnel protection: 8000 tunnels
● Firewall: 2,000,000 sessions
● NAT: 2,000,000 sessions
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 4,000,000 sessions
● 200,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate

L3VPN Up to 4000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Element Up to 10,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
(Enterprise Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 21 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the Cisco ASR 1001-X chassis with an
integrated ESP module.

Table 21. Cisco ASR 1001-X with Integrated ESP module and 8-GB memory

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 19 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Up to 6.7 Mpps For the combination of the following commonly used features: IPv4 forwarding, ACL, QoS,
and URPF

Bandwidth

Up to 8 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 50,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 8,000 sessions and 8,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 1,000,000 IPv4 or 1,000,000 IPv6 routes with 8-GB memory
● 3,500,000 IPv4 or 3,000,000 IPv6 routes with 16-GB memory

Multicast: 100,000 routes and 4,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 16,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy

● Two Low-Latency Queuing (LLQ) queues per policy, with up to 1,000 policies

<100-microsecond latency for high-priority applications

Real-time traffic Up to 2,000 Compressed Real-Time Transport Protocol (CRTP) sessions

Security Up to:
● IPSec tunnel protection: 4,000 tunnels
● Firewall: 2,000,000 sessions
● NAT: 2,000,000 sessions
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 2,000,000 sessions
● Firewall and NAT: 2,000,000 sessions

Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN) Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Element Up to 10,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 Session
(Enterprise Edition) Initiation Protocol [SIP] messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of
two media legs for a bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 22 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the Cisco ASR 1002-X chassis with an
integrated ESP module.

Table 22. Cisco ASR 1002-X with Integrated 36-Gbps ESP module and 8-GB memory

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 34 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 4 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 120,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 29,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 500,000 IPv4 or 500,000 IPv6 routes with 4-GB memory
● 1,000,000 IPv4 or 1,000,000 IPv6 routes with 8-GB memory

● 3,500,000 IPv4 or 3,000,000 IPv6 routes with 16-GB memory

Multicast: 64,000 routes and 4,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 116,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy
● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 policies

8-kbps policing and queuing granularity

<100-microsecond latency for high-priority applications

Real-time traffic Up to 2,000 CRTP sessions

Security Up to:
● IPSec tunnel protection: 8,000 tunnels
● Firewall: 2,000,000 sessions
● NAT: 2,000,000 sessions
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 4,000,000 sessions
● 200,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate

L3VPN Up to 4,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Up to 10,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
Element (Enterprise Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 23 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 20-Gbps ESP
module.

Table 23. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 20-Gbps ESP performance and scaling

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 25 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 9.2 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 100,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 32,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 4,000,000 IPv4 or 4,000,000 IPv6 routes

Multicast: 100,000 routes and 4,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 128,000 queues

● Three levels of hierarchy

● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 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 tunnel protection: 8,000 tunnels
● Firewall or NAT: 2,000,000 sessions and 200,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 4,000,000 sessions

L3VPN Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Up to 64,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
Element (SP Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 24 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 40-Gbps ESP
module.

Table 24. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 40-Gbps ESP performance and scaling

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 25 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 12.9 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 100,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 64,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 4,000,000 IPv4 or 4,000,000 IPv6 routes

Multicast: 100,000 routes and 4,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 128,000 queues

● Three levels of hierarchy

● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 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 tunnel protection: 8,000 tunnels
● Firewall or NAT: 2,000,000 sessions and 200,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 4,000,000 sessions

L3VPN Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Up to 64,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
Element (SP Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 25 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 100-Gbps ESP
module.

Table 25. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 100-Gbps ESP performance and scaling

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 80 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 29 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 400,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 58,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 4,000,000 IPv4 or 4,000,000 IPv6 routes

Multicast: 100,000 routes and 44,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 232,000 queues

● Three levels of hierarchy

● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 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 tunnel protection: 8,000 tunnels
● Firewall: 6,000,000 sessions and 220,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● NAT: 8,000,000 sessions and 300,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 12,000,000 sessions

L3VPN Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Up to 64,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
Element (SP Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 26 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps ESP
module.

Table 26. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps ESP performance and scaling

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 152 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 70 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

For GETVPN, more than one GDOI group

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 400,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 58,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IP Up to:
● 4,000,000 IPv4 or 4,000,000 IPv6 routes

Multicast: 100,000 routes and 44,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 464,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy
● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 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 tunnel protection: 8000 tunnels
● Firewall: 6,000,000 sessions and 220,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● NAT: 8,000,000 sessions and 300,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 24,000,000 sessions

L3VPN Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Up to 64,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
Element (SP Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 27. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 100-Gbps ESP performance and scaling (ASR1000-ESP100-X)

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 80 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 133 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 380,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 58,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please reach out to business unit to review and validate customer
deployment profile prior to finalization

IP Up to:
● 4,000,000 IPv4 or 4,000,000 IPv6 routes

Multicast: 100,000 routes and 44,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 232,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy

● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 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 tunnel protection: 8,000 tunnels
● Firewall: 16,000,000 sessions
● NAT: 16,000,000 sessions and 100,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 32,000,000 sessions

L3VPN Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Up to 64,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
Element (SP Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Table 28 lists the performance and scaling features offered by the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps ESP
module (ASR1000-ESP200-X)

Table 28. Cisco ASR 1000 Series 200-Gbps ESP performance and scaling (ASR1000-ESP200-X)

Feature Specification

Performance

Up to 152 Mpps Variable forwarding performance, depending on features configured

Bandwidth

Up to 183 Gbps For plain IPsec encryption (1400-byte packets)

Scaling

Access control Up to 4,000 unique ACLs and 400,000 IPv4 ACEs per system

Broadband Up to 58,000 sessions and 16,000 L2TP tunnels

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please reach out to business unit to review and validate customer
deployment profile prior to finalization

IP Up to:
● 4,000,000 IPv4 or 4,000,000 IPv6 routes w/ 16GB RP2 and RP3
● 8,500,000 IPv4 or 7,500,000 IPv6 routes w/ 32GB RP3

Multicast: 100,000 routes and 44,000 groups

QoS Flexible number of queues per system:

● Up to 464,000 queues
● Three levels of hierarchy
● Two LLQ queues per policy, with up to 4,000 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 tunnel protection: 8000 tunnels
● Firewall: 32,000,000 sessions
● NAT: 32,000,000 sessions and 78,000 sessions-per-sec setup rate
● Carrier-Grade NAT: 52,000,000 sessions

L3VPN Up to 8,000 VRF instances

GRE Up to 4,000 tunnels

Cisco Unified Border Up to 64,000 sessions (each session represents a complete voice call with 14 SIP
Element (SP Edition) messages per call; that is, two call legs on the SBC consisting of two media legs for a
bidirectional media flow and seven SIP messages per call leg)

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Please refer to the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routing Processor data sheet for a list of software features and
benefits applicable to broadband, service provider edge, and enterprise deployments.

Ordering information
Table 29 gives ordering information for the Cisco ASR 1000 Series ESPs.

Table 29. Ordering information

Product name Part number

Cisco ASR 1000 Embedded Services Processor 20Gbps ASR1000-ESP20

Cisco ASR 1000 Embedded Services Processor 40Gbps ASR1000-ESP40

Cisco ASR 1000 Embedded Services Processor 100Gbps ASR1000-ESP100

Cisco ASR 1000 Embedded Services Processor 200Gbps ASR1000-ESP200

Cisco ASR 1000 Embedded Services Processor 100Gbps ASR1000-ESP100-X

Cisco ASR 1000 Embedded Services Processor 200Gbps ASR1000-ESP200-X

For the ordering guide, download the complete ASR 1000 Series Ordering Guide.

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For more information
For more information about the Cisco ASR 1000 Series or the ESPs, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/asr1000 or
contact your local Cisco account representative.

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Document history
New or revised topic Described In Date

Revised Product Performance Replaced product capability session 1/25/19

Specification count:
● ASR1002-HX NAT: 4,000,000 sessions à
6,000,000 sessions
● ESP100 NAT: 4,000,000 sessions à
8,000,000 sessions
● ESP200 NAT: 4,000,000 sessions à
8,000,000 sessions
● ESP200 CGN: 12,000,000 sessions à
24,000,000 sessions

Printed in USA C78-731640-30 06/21

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