The Cisco M-ASR1K-SSD-200GB is a high-performance 200GB Solid State Drive (SSD) designed specifically for the Cisco ASR1000 Route Processor 3 (RP3). This module delivers superior reliability and speed compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), making it an essential upgrade for enterprise routers handling demanding WAN optimization tasks with Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS).
Key Benefits of SSD Upgrade
- SSDs provide more reliable storage than existing HDDs, as supported in WAAS Software Release 5.2 and later for platforms like WAVE-294-SSD-K9.
- Improves employee productivity by enhancing application performance over WAN, including Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, SAP, HTTP/HTTPS, and cloud apps.
- Reduces WAN bandwidth requirements, defers expensive upgrades, and supports branch-office server consolidation.
- Enables high-performance VDI, Cisco VXI, live media, SaaS, and data center virtualization.
Cisco WAAS, powered by hardware like ASR1000 series with SSD enhancements, leads in WAN optimization per Nemertes Research and IT Brand Pulse for market leadership, price, performance, reliability, service, support, and innovation.
Appliance-Based and Software-Based Solutions
Complementing the M-ASR1K-SSD-200GB, Cisco offers WAVE appliances for branch and data center, ISR-WAAS on 4000 Series ISRs, and vWAAS on UCS servers. SSD options ensure robust storage: WAVE-294-SSD-K9 with 200-GB SSD, WAVE-594-K9 with 400-GB SSD, WAVE-694-K9 and WAVE-8541-K9 with 600-GB SSD.
Deployment Flexibility
- Inline, WCCP, AppNav for low-latency policy-based optimization.
- Supports BYOD, VDI, cloud services, media streaming.
- Transparent integration with QoS, NetFlow, ACLs, firewalls, PfR, IP SLAs.
- Automatic peer discovery, Quickstart wizard for easy setup.
Advanced Features
Transport Flow Optimization (TFO), Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE) up to 100:1 compression, adaptive compression up to 5:1, protocol acceleration for SMB, MAPI, HTTP/S, NFS, ICA. Content prepositioning, edge-stream splitting for video, server offload up to 10x reduction.
Security includes 256-bit AES data-at-rest encryption, stateful firewall integration, SSL acceleration preservation, AAA/RBAC with Active Directory, RADIUS, TACACS+.
Scalability and High Availability
- Out-of-path WCCP with N+1 clustering up to 32 devices, inline fail-to-wire.
- Redundant WAN links, asymmetric routing, AppNav-XE on ASR1000 for VRF, flow affinity, HA.
- WAAS Central Manager for HTML5 monitoring, reports, upgrades.
Regulatory compliance: CE, EMC (47 CFR Part 15 Class A, CISPR22 Class A, EN 55022 Class A, etc.), Safety (UL 60950-1, CSA, IEC/EN 60950-1). With 10 units in stock, order now for immediate dispatch at special $189 (92% savings). PDF datasheet available.