Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switches
Part Numbers: A9K-RSP-4G / A9K-RSP-8G
The Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor (RSP) is a scalable, low-power, next-generation Carrier Ethernet platform with a system architecture specifically designed to accommodate service providers’ unique convergence requirements of Layer 2 Ethernet transport plus Layer 3 services.
Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers offer one of the industry’s highest-capacity Carrier Ethernet platforms. These routers are optimized for aggregation of dense 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet connections.
- CPU
- High-performance dual-core processors
- Memory internal
- 4-GB Error-Correcting Code (ECC)-protected DRAM for A9K-RSP-4G
- 8-GB Error-Correcting Code (ECC)-protected DRAM for A9K-RSP-8G
- Hard disk: 40-GB SAS HDD
- 4-GB eUSB Flash memory
- Memory external
- 1-GB Compact Flash
- Timing (two independent clock source connections)
- RJ-45 connector for external timing reference interfaces (for example, BITS/SSU)
- Management
- Two 10/100/1000 BASE-T (RJ-45) LAN management ports
- One console port
- One auxiliary port