| Features and Benefits |
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| Highly scalable fabric | Designed to support high 1/10/100-Gbps port densities. Provides built-in scalability for investment protection |
| Control of up to seven switch fabric cards | Offers traffic load balancing simultaneously across up to seven fabrics |
| Distributed forwarding plane architecture | Allows line cards to support independent forwarding for enhanced performance and scale |
| Control plane extension ports | Combining the redundant pair of chassis into a single logical entity provides advantages in management, scalability, and high availability |
| Memoryless switch fabric | Provides transparent nonblocking low-latency packet forwarding |
| Virtual output queuing and arbitration | Offers service intelligence with prioritization of traffic (unicast and multicast). Provides efficient congestion management mechanism and avoids problems related to head-of-line blocking |
| Centralized arbiter | Uses an efficient credit mechanism to help ensure transparent switchover with zero packet loss |
| IEEE 1588 support | Delivers timing services over the packet network efficiently and reliably |
| Two independent clock source connections: BITS and Synchronization Supply Unit (SSU) DTI | Offers redundant, centralized network synchronization support |
| Two 16-GB solid state drives (SSDs) | Allows storing of core dumps and helps reduce the system mean time to repair (MTTR) |
| Embedded Universal Series Bus (eUSB) memory port | Provides access to on board USB flash memory devices for software image storing and upgrades |
| Front-pane external Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 port | Provides access to USB flash memory devices for quick software image loading and recovery |
| Front-panel LEDs | Provides visual indication of route processor status (active or standby), power management, and activity on compact flash and hard disk drive (HDD) |
| Management ports | Provides easy access to system console |
| Route Processor Models |
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| ASR-9900-RP-TR | For simplicity and common sparing, introduced on Cisco IOS XR Release 4.3.2, supports both Cisco ASR 9912 and ASR 9922 chassis |
| ASR-9900-RP-SE | For simplicity and common sparing, introduced on Cisco IOS XR Release 4.3.2, supports both Cisco ASR 9912 and ASR 9922 chassis |
| ASR-9922-RP-TR | Introduced on Cisco IOS XR Release 4.2.2, supports Cisco ASR 9922 chassis only |
| ASR-9922-RP-SE | Introduced on Cisco IOS XR Release 4.2.2, supports Cisco ASR 9922 chassis only |
| Supported Line Cards |
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| Line Cards | A9K-2X100GE-TR, A9K-2X100GE-SE, A9K-1X100GE-TR, A9K-1X100GE-SE, A9K-36X10GE-TR, A9K-36X10GE-SE |
| Redundancy |
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| Redundancy Features | No single point of failure. Route processor redundancy (both route processors must be of the same kind). Software redundancy |
| Physical Specifications |
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| Slot Occupation | Each Route Processor occupies one slot; a redundant route processor configuration occupies two slots in Cisco ASR 9922 and ASR 9912 chassis |
| Height | 1.81” (4.60 cm) |
| Width | 16.87” (42.85 cm) |
| Depth | 24.74” (62.89 cm) |
| Weight | 13 lb (5.90 kg) |
| Environmental Conditions |
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| Operating temperature | 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C) |
| Storage temperature | -40 to 167°F (-40 to 75°C) |
| Relative humidity | 10 to 90%, noncondensing |
| Operating temperature (short-term) | 23 to 131ºF (-5 to 55ºC). Short-term refers to a period of not more than 96 consecutive hours and a total of not more than 15 days in 1 year (a total of 360 hours in any given year, but no more than 15 occurrences during that 1-year period) |
| Operating humidity (nominal) (relative humidity) | 10 to 85 percent |
| Operating humidity (short-term) | 5 to 90 percent. Not to exceed 0.024 kg water or dry air |
| Storage temperature | -40 to 158ºF (-40 to 70ºC) |
| Storage (relative humidity) | 5 to 95 percent. Not to exceed 0.024 kg water or dry air |
| Operating altitude | -60 to 4000m (up to 2000m conforms to IEC/EN/UL/CSA 60950 requirements) |
| NEBS Compliance |
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| NEBS Standards | SR-3580: NEBS Criteria Levels (Level 3), GR-1089-CORE: NEBS Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Safety, GR-63-CORE: NEBS Physical Protection, VZ.TPR.9205: Verizon TEEER |
| ETSI Standards |
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| ETSI Standards | EN300 386: Telecommunications Network Equipment (EMC), ETSI 300 019 Storage Class 1.1, ETSI 300 019 Transportation Class 2.3, ETSI 300 019 Stationary Use Class 3.1, EN55022: Information Technology Equipment (Emissions), EN55024: Information Technology Equipment (Immunity), EN50082-1/EN-61000-6-1: Generic Immunity Standard |
| EMC Standards |
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| EMC Standards | FCC Class A, ICES 003 Class A, AS/NZS 3548 Class A, CISPR 22 (EN55022) Class A, VCCI Class A, BSMI Class A, IEC/EN 61000-3-2: Power Line Harmonics, IEC/EN 61000-3-3: Voltage Fluctuations and Flicker, EN 50121-4: Railway EMC |
| Immunity Standards |
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| Immunity Standards | IEC/EN-61000-4-2: Electrostatic Discharge Immunity (8kV Contact, 15kV Air), IEC/EN-61000-4-3: Radiated Immunity (10V/m), IEC/EN-61000-4-4: Electrical Fast Transient Immunity (2kV Power, 1kV Signal), IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Surge AC Port (4kV CM, 2kV DM), IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Signal Ports (1kV), IEC/EN-61000-4-5: Surge DC Port (1kV), IEC/EN-61000-4-6: Immunity to Conducted Disturbances (10Vrms), IEC/EN-61000-4-8: Power Frequency Magnetic Field Immunity (30A/m), IEC/EN-61000-4-11: Voltage DIPS, Short Interruptions, and Voltage Variations, EN 50121-4: Railway EMC |
| Safety Standards |
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| Safety Standards | UL/CSA/IEC/EN 60950-1, IEC/EN 60825 Laser Safety, ACA TS001, AS/NZS 60950, FDA: Code of Federal Regulations Laser Safety |
| Ordering Information |
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| Route Processor optimized for packet transport | Cisco IOS XR Software Release 4.3.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9900-RP-TR |
| Route Processor optimized for packet transport, spare | Cisco IOS XR Software Release 4.3.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9900-RP-TR= |
| Route Processor optimized for service edge | Cisco IOS XR Software Release 4.3.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9900-RP-SE |
| Route Processor optimized for service edge, spare | Cisco IOS-XR Software Release 4.3.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9900-RP-SE= |
| Route Processor optimized for packet transport, ASR 9922 only | Cisco IOS-XR Software Release 4.2.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9922-RP-TR |
| Route Processor optimized for packet transport, spare, ASR 9922 Only | Cisco IOS-XR Software Release 4.2.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9922-RP-TR= |
| Route Processor optimized for service edge, ASR 9922 only | Cisco IOS-XR Software Release 4.2.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9922-RP-SE |
| Route Processor optimized for service edge, spare, ASR 9922 only | Cisco IOS-XR Software Release 4.2.2 onwards, Part Number: ASR-9922-RP-SE= |
