Cisco ASR 9000 Series

Lightspeed+ Introduction

Rishikesh Tripathy

Feb 2020
Internet for the Future

Simulation
New Normals Personalization Transportation

For the way we Work, Live, Service Provider

Play, and Learn Networks
5G
Cyber
Security

New Participants IOT

Many remain unconnected Telemedicine
and emerging IoT Autonomous
Robots
Sensors Additive
Manufacturing
Big Data

New Potentials
Cloud
The foundation of economies, Surveillance Critical Computing
Infrastructure
governments, and societies Augmented
Reality

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 Market Dynamics
Explosive 60%
3.6 75
14.6
Internet 45% 2.4
39
Growth 6.1
2018 Cisco VNI

2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022 2017 2022

More Users (% of population) More Devices per User More M2M Connections (billions) More Broadband Speed (Mbps)

Economic
Challenges
for SPs
IHS Markit Report

Flat Revenue Growth $1 of CapEx in 2020 has to Today, operators spend $5 of

(2017 – 2022 CAGR: 0.5%) do 11X the work it did in 2012 OpEx for each $1 of CapEx

SPs Want More

for Less

Reduce Costs (CapEx, Create New Revenue. Increase Trust HOWEVER, BUDGETS
OpEx) and Latency.
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Increase Capacity. Time to Service
New Architectures for a New Internet
Converged, Cloud Enhanced, Distributed Edge

68% Better OPEX Utilization | 81% Faster Time-to-Service | 59% Improved Capital Efficiency

Network Insights

Trust Network
Insights Qualification

Cloud Enhanced Operations

IOS XR and Crosswork

Edge / Edge /
Access Core Metro Access
Metro

Micro Datacenter Regional Datacenter

Converged SDN | Compute & Storage | Automation

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Requirements for Edge Infrastructure
Network Insights

Trust Network
Insights Qualification

Cloud Enhanced Operations

IOS XR and Crosswork

Edge / Edge /
Access Core Metro Access
Metro

Edge Network Requirements

Feature rich with forward & TCO optimized Automation ready

backwards compatibility

Fixed and modular scale for all

Trustworthy & secure Carrier class reliability
applications & scenarios
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 Your Network’s Edge
Lightspeed+
Refined Retuned
 …with cutting edge 7nm silicon  …Efficient memory use, download & bootup time
 With power savings of ~75%*+  …to be automation ready with open APIs, native,
 …with industry best service edge Yang, and Open Config Models
performance at scale  …to be one OS for all network

Reinforced
Reloaded  .. to measure trust at all stages
 …with 400 GbE port support ( In HW, SW, at bootup, at runtime..)
 …with Coherent optics for next level
 ..with best in class TAM root of trust
of IP-Optical convergence
& Integration to Trust insights – Get
 …with enhanced port flexibility audited, visualize security
(1G,10G,25G,40G,100G and 400G)

Edge ready. Available today.

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*Power Savings Over Tomahawk

Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Edge Ahead with ASR9000

Best in Quality Years of Heritage

 Rated best in SW  Most rich feature-set
quality amongst 1100  Versatile use-cases
CISCO Products
 Huge incumbency
 7 Months Chip-to-Ship
for Lightspeed+

Why Invest in
ASR 90000

 Highest NPS score in SPBU;  6 New LCs, 2 Fixed Routers

2nd highest across all CISCO  LS+ - To Infinity & Beyond

Customer’s Favorite Committed Investment

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Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Reinforcing the value of your investment

years of innovation
capacity increase

2008 2020

CAPEX savings:
OPEX savings through: • Same chassis’ & same
• Automation commons for 3rd, 4th, and
• 75% power reduction per Gbps 5th generation linecards
• New power efficiencies & advanced power
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 Cisco ASR 9000 Silicon Evolution Silicon (nm) Capacity (Gbps) Power (Watts per Gbps)

4000 Gbps
10 W/Gbps 3200 Gbps
10 100nm 4000 Gbps

90nm
9 90nm

Per Slot Capacity (Gbps)

8 80nm

7 70nm
Watts per Gbps

Silicon (nm)

1200 Gbps
6 60nm
55nm

5 50nm

4 40nm

28nm
3 30nm 2.5 W/Gbps

2 20nm
360 Gbps 1.5 W/Gbps
16nm 40 Gbps
1 10nm 7nm
0.5 W/Gbps
40 Gbps 0.39 W/Gbps

2008 2012 2015 2018 2020

1St Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation 4th Generation 5th Generation
Trident, 90nm, 15 Gbps Typhoon, 55nm, 60 Gbps Tomahawk, 28nm, 240 Gbps Lightspeed, 16nm, 400 Gbps Lightspeed+, 7nm, 400 Gbps

Fabric
Octopus Skytrain Tigershark
Interconnect 130nm, 60 Gbps 65nm, 60 Gbps 28nm, 200 Gbps
- -
ASIC
PowerPC PowerPC X86 X86 X86
CPU Dual Core,1.2 Ghz Quad Core,1.5 Ghz 6 Core, 2 Ghz 8 Core, 2.2 Ghz 8 Core, 2.2 Ghz

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 Commercial Offers
Lightspeed+
Flexible Consumption Model Traditional Model

3 Year
A la Carte Mandatory
A la Carte
(Scale Enhanced) (BNG, CGN, MACSec, 400G)

Advanced Software
(L3VPN – MPLS IPv4/IPv6, MACSec, … Advanced IP
TE, L3 Tunnel, SL-APIs)

Essentials Software
(Most of the transport oriented feature … Base - IVRF
set with Automation, NSO)

Software Innovation
Access (SIA)
Service Edge Transport
Hardware Infrastructure Hardware Infrastructure

LICENSE PORTABILITY
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Innovations in Technology & Silicon
Lightspeed+
Edge Performance
• 300 Mpps at 400Gbps per ASIC
• Industry best performance for
service edge profiles
Built for Scale
• Dynamic TCAM Carving
• Dynamic Buffer Pooling
• Increased TCAM & SRAM
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Rich Feature Repertoire
• Tomahawk Parity Day 0
• Most complete SR-MPLS, SRV6
and EVPN feature set & roadmap
• 10 Years of ASR9K XR Hardening;
8 Releases of LS hardening
Automation & Security
• Day 0 integration with Crosswork
• Native & Open-config model parity
with Tomahawk
• MACSec on 10/25/40/100/400G;
Secure boot & Trust Anchor Capability
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 Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Reloaded with 5th Generation Silicon and support for 400GbE

ASR 9903 3.2 Tbps* capacity 2 Tbps capacity 0.8 Tbps capacity

• 5th Generation Service Edge • 5th Generation silicon

scale in compact and modular • Support for 10, 25, 40,100 &
form-factor 400G ports
• 3.6 Tbps in 3RU • Same set of commons: 3rd,
• 0.4 Watts/Gbps 4th, & 5th generation linecards

*3.2T Card only has QSFP-28 Ports. ASR 9006 ASR 9010 ASR 9904 ASR 9906 ASR 9910 ASR 9912 ASR 9922

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 ROADMAPS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF CISCO.

Cisco ASR 9000 Series

5th Gen ASIC: Investment Profile

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May

7 Fabric 4T LC 2.4T LC
A99-32X100GE-X
With IOS XR 7.1.2* FCS with XR 7.4.1

A9K-20HG-FLEX 400G LC
5 Fabric
FCS with
PORTFOLIO A9K-8HG-FLEX IOS XR 7.3.X
ROADMAP With IOS XR 7.1.2*

RP/RSP
Commons
Class C timing
FCS with
IOS XR 7.4.1
A9K-9903
A9903-20HG-PEC
Pizza Box 9903
9902
0.8T PEC
* Release numbering to be confirmed
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XR7.1.15 or XR7.1.2 With IOS XR 7.1.3 FCS with IOS XR 7.3.X FCS with IOS XR 7.3.X 13

EXECUTE COMMITTED PENDING EXECUTE COMMIT

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Lightspeed Plus Portfolio

Phase-I Overview
Ports Bandwidth Combo Ports MACSec/FlexE Timing
A99-32X100GE

32 Ports of QSFP28 3.2 Tbps No No Class B

A9K-20HG-FLEX
15 Ports QSFP28
2 Tbps Yes Yes Class C
5 Ports QSFP-DD

A9K-8HG-FLEX
6 Ports QSFP28
0.8 Tbps Yes Yes Class C
2 Ports QSFP-DD

ASR-9903 16 Ports QSFP28

1.6 Tbps No Yes Class C
20 Ports SFP+

15 Ports QSFP28
2 Tbps Yes Yes Class C
A9903-20HG-PEC 5 Ports QSFP-DD
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 Lightspeed Plus Portfolio
Combo Ports Introduced

A9K-20HG-FLEX

COMBO PORTS

A9K-8HG-FLEX

ONE SLICE
Each Slice of 4 ports can be
independently configured in one
of the following combinations
 1x400GE
 4X100GE
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 1x200GE & 2X100GE

 SW Delivery Plan : Edge Deployment on Day Zero
… … … 2015 2016 2017 2018
2019 2020 Future

XR 6.5.15 XR 7.1.2*

3rd Generation
Tomahawk
Tomahawk

Common Roadmap

Lightspeed
for ASIC
4th Generation
Lightspeed

Independent
Features
5th Generation
Lightspeed+
Lightspeed+
* Release numbering to be confirmed
for XR7.1.15 or XR7.1.2

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Almost Complete Feature parity with Tomahawk at FCS*
* Note: Gaps on legacy tech; check SW roadmap for details
 Cisco ASR 9000 Series
IOS XR Roadmap

• 0.8T linecard • ASR 9903 • 4T LC

• 2.4T LC
• 2T linecard • 2T PEC • 400G LC
HW SUPPORT • Class C Timing RP/RSP
• 3.2T linecard • 0.8T PEC

• Parity with LSQ • MACSec • Flex Ethernet

• GRE, BVI, VXLAN • 4X100G Breakout • Class C Timing Qual
KEY FEATURES • Dynamic TCAM Carving • 10K BGP Flowspec Rules • ISSU
• 128K EFP/LC • BNG Ph-II
• UBRL (microflow policer)
• BNG Ph-I

• Core • Cloud Native BNG Datapath • Mobile Edge/Mobile Agg.

USE CASES • Peering • Traditional BNG requiring Class C timing
• Service Edge
• DCI Gateway

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* Release numbering to be confirmed
COMMITTED ROADMAP ROADMAP 17

for XR7.1.15 or XR7.1.2

Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Key milestones Enroll for EFT Here

Limited orderability Full orderability FCS EFT

Ph-I Linecards Ph-I Linecards for 5th Gen 3.2Tbps ASR 9903
Spares for BAU FCM commercial linecard
2Tbps PEC
Commercial model model, Systems &
Bundles

Jan 20, 2020 Jan 30, 2020 Feb 20, 2020 Feb 24, 2020 Mar 31, 2020 Apr 25, 2020 June 2020 Aug 2020

Alpha EFT Open EFT FCS FCS ASR 9903

5th Gen 3.2Tbps All 5th Gen 5th Gen 2Tbps line ASR 9903
Linecard with linecards available card
2Tbps PEC
select customers for all customers
5th Gen 0.8Tbps
linecard

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Lightspeed+ : Get Engaged; Get Addicted

Reloaded. Increased capacity with 400GE.

Refined. Cutting edge 7nm silicon for performance & efficiency.

Reinforced. Scalable, secure, & trustworthy system.

Retuned & Refactored. Automation ready with feature rich OS.

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Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Optics roadmap
7.1.2 (FCS) 7.1.3 (FCS +1) Roadmap
• 400G • 40G • 400G • 400G
- QDD-400G-DR4-S - QSFP-40G-SR4 - QDD-400G-SR4-BD - QDD-400-CUxM
- QDD-400G-FR4-S - QSFP-40G-SR-BD - QDD-400G-ZR-S - QDD-400G-AOC-10M
- QDD-400G-LR8-S - QSFP-40G-LR4 - QDD-400G-ZRP-S - QDD-400G-LR4-S
- QSFP-4X10G-LR-S - QDD-4X100G-FR-S - QDD-4X100G-LR-S
• 100G - QSFP-40G-ER4
- QSFP-100G-SR4-S - QSFP-40G-SR4-S • 2x100G • 100G
- QSFP-100G-PSM4-S - QSFP-40/100-SRBD - QDD-2X100-LR4-S - QSFP-100G-LR-S
- QSFP-100G-CWDM4-S - QSFP-40G-LR4-S - QDD-2X100-CWDM4-S - QSFP-100G-AOC10m
- QSFP-100G-FR-S - QDD-2X100-SR4-S - QSFP-100G-CU
- QSFP-100G-LR4-S - QSFP-100G-4W40-I
- QSFP-100G-ER4L-S
- QSFP-40/100-SRBD • 40G
- QSFP-100G-SM-SR - QSFP-40GE-CSR4
- QSFP-H40G-ACU7M
- QSFP-H40G-ACU10M

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* QDD-2X100-PSM4-S de-priortized
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