The Cisco M-ASR1K-RP3-64GB is the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Route Processor 3 (RP3) equipped with 64GB DRAM (configured as 4x16GB), providing enhanced performance, memory, and storage capabilities for Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. As the newest addition to the modular control plane engines, the RP3 enables higher scalability for enterprise WAN edge, service provider POPs, and data center interconnects, supporting line speeds from 2.5 to 200 Gbps with hardware and software redundancy.
Key Features and Benefits
- High Availability: Redundant hardware components and power supplies; stateful intrachassis redundancy; In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) support; Cisco IOS XE Software Sub-package Mode.
- Scalable Capacity: Cisco Flow Processor-based platform with hardware acceleration for QoS, cryptography, ACLs; control- and forwarding-plane separation.
- Investment Protection: Software modularity; pay-as-you-grow licensing; reusable Cisco Shared Port Adapters (SPAs) and Network Interface Modules (NIMs).
- Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN): Enabled on ASR 1000 with IOS XE; better user experience, greater agility, advanced threat protection including application-aware firewall and DNS enforcement.
- Application Visibility: Integrated with Cisco ThousandEyes for hop-by-hop analytics, SD-WAN overlay monitoring, SaaS performance.
- Unified Access Security: Zero trust model with multi-factor authentication.
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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Overview
Cisco ASR 1000 Series provides a Software Defined WAN platform aggregating WAN connections, encryption, traffic management at 2.5-200 Gbps. Latest models: ASR 1002-HX (100 Gbps, 2RU), ASR 1001-HX (60 Gbps, 1RU). Supports Cisco IOS XE with modular packaging; Embedded Services Processors (ESPs) accelerate crypto, NAT, ZBFW, DPI, CUBE, DCI features without extra hardware.
Ideal for enterprise data center edge, large offices, service provider POPs; handles explosive traffic from mobility, cloud, video. Consolidates streams with traffic management and redundancy.
Use Cases
Enterprise Applications
- WAN edge: Modular QoS CLI (MQC) policies on VLANs/tunnels; limits low-priority traffic; classifies by DSCP, NBAR, FPM; supports 464,000 queues.
- IPsec VPN aggregation: Up to 78 Gbps encryption with ESP200; 8,000 tunnels.
- Embedded firewall: Zone-Based Policy Firewall at 2.5-200 Gbps; 40,000 sessions/sec logging.
- Managed CPE: Software redundancy on 1-2RU models; firewall/NAT 2.5-200 Gbps.
- High Performance SD-WAN Headend: ASR1006-X + ESP200-X; 8,000 IPSec tunnels; supports specific EPAs.
Service Provider Applications
- Broadband L2TP LAC/LNS: 64,000 subscribers, 16,000 tunnels.
- L3VPN PE: 8,000 VRFs, 4M IPv4/IPv6 routes.
- High-end Route Reflector: 29M IPv4 routes, 64,000 L3 adjacencies.
- CUBE ENT Edition: 16,000 voice calls + 200 Gbps data.
Software Licensing
Supports Cisco DNA Advantage/Premier subscriptions; Smart Licensing; Cisco ONE Software. Requires IOS XE Universal images and technology packages (IP Base, Advanced IP Services, Advanced Services). ThousandEyes requires 8GB DRAM min.
Compatibility and Upgrade Paths
RP3 compatible with ASR1006-X, ASR1009-X, ASR1013. Enhances chassis with higher memory (default 8GB, upgradable to 64GB). Full ordering details in datasheet.