Brkarc 2001 Final

Cisco ASR1000 Series Routers' System & Solution Architectures
BRKARC-2001
Cisco Routing Platform Positioning

Performance and Services Scalability
Secure WAN Aggregation

Integrated Threat Control Application Optimization
ASR 1000 (Up to 40G)
7600 Series/ Catalyst 6500 Series
Modular software,
ASR 1001
Consistent LAN/WAN services
7200 Series
ISR Series
High-performance embedded Services, Services Flexibility Hardware/Software Resiliency, Modular Software
Highest Capacity, Highly Available, Modular Services
Secure, Reliable, Concurrent WAN Services Aggregation

Routing System with Integrated Services Security, Voice, Video, Wireless, WAN Optimization
Branch
Head Office / WAN Aggregation

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Agenda
Cisco ASR1000 Series Routers
Introduction to ASR1000 Hardware Architecture Software Architecture
Borderless Network Architectures
Cisco ASR1000 Interfaces, Modules

I/O Shared Port Adapters (SPA)
Q&A
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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Introduction

SPA Interface Processor (SIP) Can take Up to 4 HH SPAs SPA Slots Re-Uses existing SPAs
Embedded Services Processor (ESP) 40 Cores with Traffic Manager

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Route Processor (RP) 2.66x2 GHz, Up to 16GB DRAM

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Chassis Options: ASR1006

SPAs
2
SIP
0
1
6RU
ESP
0
RP
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SPAs
SIP
0/0 0/2
ESP RP
0/1 0/3
4RU
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SPAs
ESP
2RU
SIP
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Integrated Daughter Card
4xGigabit Ethernet
SPA
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Route Processor: ASR1000-RP1

HDD Enclosure
Features:
First Generation ASR1000 Route Processor (RP) 1.5GHz PowerPC Processing Complex
Up to 1M v4 / 256K v6 routes
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Route Processor: ASR1000-RP2

HDD Enclosure
Features:
Second Generation ASR1000 Route Processor (RP) Dual core 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon Processing Complex
Up to 4M v4, 1M v6 routes Hot swappable HDD
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Forwarding Processor: ASR1000-ESP10

Cisco QuantumFlow Processor
Features:
10 Gbps Performance QFP (QuantumFlow Processor)
800MHz ESP CPU Processing Complex for Control
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Features:
1.2 GHz ESP CPU Processing Complex for Control
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Features:
Dual core 1.8 GHz ESP CPU Processing Complex for Control
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SPA Interface Processor: ASR1000-SIP10, and SIP40
Features:
First and Second Generation ASR1000 SIP 10 or 40 Gbps Aggregate Performance 800 MHz SIP10 CPU Processing Complex for Control 1.3 GHz SIP40 CPU Processor Complex for Control
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Forwarding ProcessorEmbedded Services Processor (ESP)

Centralized, programmable forwarding engine (i.e. QFP subsystem (PPE) and crypto engine) providing full-packet processing Packet buffering and queuing/scheduling (BQS or Traffic Manager)
For output traffic to carrier cards/SPAs
For special features such as input shaping, reassembly, replication, punt to RP, etc.
Interconnect providing data path links (ESI) to/from other cards over mid-plane
Transports traffic into and out of QFP
Input scheduler for allocating QFP BW among ESIs
ESP CPU managing QFP, crypto device, mid-plane links, etc
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SPA Interface Processor

Physical termination of SPA Supports up to 4 SPAs
4 half-height, 2 full-height, 2 HH+1FH
Full OIR support
Does not participate in forwarding
Limited QoS
Ingress packet classificationhigh/low
Ingress over-subscription buffering (low priority) until FP can service them. Up to 128MB of ingress oversubscription buffering
Capture stats on dropped packets Network clock distribution to SPAs, reference selection from SPAs
SIP CPU manages Midplane links, SPA OIR, SPA drivers
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ASR 1000 Series

Models Comparison Matrix
Chassis
ASR 1001
ASR 1002
Integrated
ESP2.5
ESP5
ESP10
ESP20
ESP 40
RP1
RP2
*
HH
GigE
SPAs
ASR 1004
ASR 1006 ASR 1013
Max Encryption Throughput
1.0Gbps 1.8Gbps
4.0Gbps
7.0Gbps
*shared with ESP CP
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11.0Gbps
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ASR1000 RP1 and RP2 Hardware Comparison

ASR1000 RP1 ASR1000 RP2
CPU
Memory
Freescale 1.5GHz
2GB default (2x1GB) 4GB maximum (2x2GB) RP1 with 4GB built in ASR1002
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 2.67GHz

8GB default (4x2GB) 16GB maximum (4x4GB)
Built-in eUSB bootflash

NVRAM
1GB (8GB on ASR1002)

32MB
2GB
32MB
Hard disk drive size

Chassis Support
40GB
ASR 1002 (built-in), ASR 1004 and ASR 1006
80GB
ASR 1004 and ASR 1006, 1013 64 bit
Cisco IOS XE Operating 32 bit System

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ASR1000 Building Blocks

Embedded Services Processor (active)
ESP CPU
Route Processor (active)
Route Processor (standby)
Embedded Services Processor (standby)

ESP CPU
RP (Route Processor)
Handles control plane traffic Manages system
RP
RP
ESP
SPI4.2 SPI4.2
Interconn. QFP subsys-tem Interconn. Crypto assist Crypto assist QFP subsys-tem
Handles forwarding plane traffic
SIP
Houses the SPAs
Interconn.
Interconn.
SPAs
Provide interface connectivity
Mid-plane
Centralized Forwarding Architecture

All traffic flows through the ESP
Interconn.
Interconn.
Interconn.
SPA Agg.
SIP CPU
SPA Agg.
IOCP
SPA Agg.
SIP CPU
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA
ESI, (Enhanced Serdes Interface) 11.5Gbps SPA-SPI, 11.2Gbps Hyper Transport, 10Gbps
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System Bandwidth and Oversubscription

ESP bandwidth denotes the total output bandwidth of the system, regardless of the direction As long as High priority traffic long is not over-subscribed, i.e., <=10G for ASR1000-ESP10)
5G
5G QFP
5G
5G
1G
2G QFP
8G
2G
5G Unicast in each direction Total Output bandwidth 5+5=10
1G Multicast with 8X replication in one direction 2G unicast in the other direction Total Output bandwidth 8+2=10G
5G
6G
5G QFP
6G
1G
1G QFP
10G
1G
5G Unicast in one direction & 6G Unicast in the other direction Total output bandwidth (5+6=11) exceeds 10G; Only 10G will go through
1G Multicast with 10X replication in one direction 1G Unicast in the other direction Total bandwidth (10+1=11) exceeds 10G; only 10G will go through
Oversubscribed
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ASR1000 HA Summary
ASR leverages Cisco IOS HA infrastructureNSF/SSO, ISSU
1+1 redundancy option for RP and ESP
Active and standby No load balancing
RPs are separate from ESPs

Switchover of ESP does not result in switchover of RP
Switchover of RP/IOS does not result in switchover of ESP
Single RP may be configured with dual IOS for SW redundancy (ASR 1002-F, ASR 1002 or ASR 1004 only)
No redundancy for SIP or other I/O cards
SPA plugs into a single SIP
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System ArchitectureDistributed Control Plane
Active RP fails Route HW or SW Processor
Standby Becomes Route Processor Active
Zero Packet Loss
Active Embedded Services Processor
Standby Embedded Services Processor
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA

SPA SPA

SPA SPA

SPA SPA
Separate and independent internal communication link for control plane (GE)
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System ArchitectureCentralized Data Plane
Active Route Processor
Standby Route Processor
Minimal Data Interruption
Active Embedded SW or HW ESP fails Services Processor
Standby Standby Embedded Services Becomes Active Processor
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA
SPA

SPA SPA

SPA SPA

SPA SPA
All packets processed by QFP for forwarding Separate and Independent links for Data Plane communication (ESI 11.5G)
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ASR1000 - Software Architecture (IOS XE)

IOS XE = IOS + Middleware + Platform Software Operational Consistency same look and feel as IOS Router IOS runs as its own Linux process for control plane (Routing, SNMP, CLI etc) 32bit and 64bit options. Linux kernel with multiple processes running in protected memory for
Fault containment Re-startability ISSU of individual SW packages
RP
CPU
IOS
Chassis Mgr.
Forwarding Mgr.
Kernel (incl. utilities) Linux Kernel

Interconn.
ESP
FECP QFP Software
Chassis Mgr.
Forwarding Mgr.
Kernel (incl. utilities) Linux Kernel

Interconn.
Interconn.
QFP subsystem QFP code

Crypto assist
ASR1000 HA
Zero-packet-loss RP Failover <50ms IOSD and ESP Failover Software Redundancy
SIP
Interconn.
IOCP
SPA SPA SPA driv drivSPA driv erer driver er
Chassis Mgr.
SPA
Agg.
ESI, 11.2Gbps SPA-SPI, 11.2Gbps Hypertransport, 10Gbps Other
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Data Packet Flow: From SPA through SIP

ESPs
1. SPA receives packet data from its network interfaces and transfers the packet to the SIP
Interconn.
2. SPA Aggregation ASIC classifies the packet into H/L priority
Ingress Scheduler
Egress Buffer Status
3. SIP writes packet data to external 128B memory (at 40Gbps from 4 full-rate SPAs). 4. Ingress buffer memory is carved into 64 queues. The queues are arranged by SPA-SPI channel and optionally H/L. Channels on channelized SPAs share the same queue.
5. SPA ASIC selects among ingress queues for next pkt to send to ESP over ESI. It prepares the packet for internal transmission
Ingress Buffers (per port)
g SPA aggregation ASIC
Egress Buffers (per port)
Ingress classifier
SPA Agg.
6. The interconnect transmits packet data of selected packet over ESI to active ESP at up to 11.5Gbps.
7. Active ESP can backpressure SIP via ESI ctl message to slow pkt transfer over ESI if overloaded (provides separate backpressure for Hi vs. Low priority pkt data).
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SPA-SPI, 11.2Gbps
Hypertransport, 10Gbps Other
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Data Packet Flow: Through ESP10

1.
TCAM4 (10Mbit)
Resource DRAM (512MB) Pkt Buffer DRAM (128MB)
Packet arrives on QFP

Packet assigned to a PPE thread.
2.
Part Len/ BW SRAM
3.
Processor pool
PPE0 PPE0 PPE0 PPE1
The PPE thread processes the packet in a feature chain similar to 12.2S IOS (very basic view of a v4 use case):
Input Features applied
PPE0 PPE0 PPE0 PPE2
PPE0 PPE0 PPE0 PPE3
PPE0 PPE0 PPE0 PPE4
QuantumFlow Processor
Buffer, queue, schedule Buffer, queue, schedule Buffer, queue, schedule (BQS) (BQS) (BQS)
Netflow, MQC/NBAR Classify, FW, RPF, Mark/Police, NAT, WCCP etc. Forwarding Decision is made
Ipv4 FIB, Load Balance, MPLS, MPLSoGRE, Multicast etc. Output Features applied Netflow, FW, NAT, Crypto, MQC/NBAR Classify, Police/Mark etc.
PPE0 PPE0 PPE0 PPE5
PPE0 PPE0 PPE0 PPE6
PPE0 PPE0 PPE0 PPE40
Dispatcher/ Pkt Buffer
Finished
4.
Packet released from on-chip memory to Traffic Manager (Queued)

The Traffic Manager schedules which traffic to send to which SIP interface (or RP or Crypto Chip) based on priority and what is configured in MQC
ASR System BW (Depends on Interconnect ESP)

ESI, 11.2Gbps
5.
6.
SIP-10
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Data
SIP can independently backpressure ESP via ESI control message to pace the packet transfer if overloaded.
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Data Packet Flow: Through SIP To SPA

Data ESPs
1. Interconnect receives packet data over ESI from the active ESP at up to 11.5Gbps. SPA Aggregation ASIC receives the packet and writes it to external egress buffer memory. Egress buffer memory is carved into 64 queues. The queues are arranged by egress SPA-SPI channel and optionally H/L. Channels on channelized SPAs share the same queue. SPA Aggregation ASIC selects and transfers packet data from eligible queues to SPA-SPI channel (Hi queue are selected before Low)
2.
Interconn.
3.
Ingress Scheduler
Egress Buffer Status
4.
Ingress Buffers (per port)
SPA Aggregation ASIC

Ingress classifier
Egress Buffers (per port)
5.
6.
SPA can backpressure transfer of packet data burst independently for each SPA-SPI channel using SPI FIFO status. SPA transmits packet data on network interface
SPA Agg.
ESI, 11.2Gbps SPA-SPI, 11.2Gbps Hypertransport, 10Gbps
4 SPAs
Other
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Connecting to ASR1000
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Connecting to an ASR1000
Console
Normal IOS console
Telnet, SSH
Needs to be configured, but otherwise, nothing new
AUX
Can be used for diagnostic access
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Management Ethernet
ASR has dedicated GigE Management Ethernet
Not usable for normal traffic

Supports only basic ACLs
Most forwarding features do not work on this port (traffic not processed by QFP)
Intended for out of band router accesshas SW support for rate limiting but that takes CPU cycles to drop packets
Dont connect to the outside world
Must be configured in dedicated VRF
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TFTP Package to the RP from ROMMON

Once youve the image in the directory, you need to log onto RP0 and set the following variables within the ROMMON (Note: In ASR1000 RP, there is no RxBoot environment, ROMMON is basically beefed up to support TFTP etc.):
rommon 2 > set BOOT_PARAM=root=/dev/ram rw console=ttyS1,9600 max_loop=36 ?=0 IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.0.0 TFTP_SERVER=2.8.54.2 TFTP_FILE=mcpude_12_18.bin DEFAULT_GATEWAY=2.1.0.1 IP_ADDRESS=2.1.35.52
Connect the GE Mgmt port on the RP0 to your GW vlan (so that it can access the TFTP server where the consolidated package is located)
Once done, you need to issue the following command at ROMMON: Boot tftp:
Image will be transferred directly to the RP DRAM for execution
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Configuring RP First Time for File Transfers, and Normal Operation

First thing that you will notice here is the default definition of Mgmt-intf VRF (as usual this is case-sensitive), which includes RP Mgmt. Gi0 port Router#sh ip vrf interfaces
Interface
Gi0
IP-Address
unassigned
VRF
Mgmt-intf
Protocol
up
Assign the Gi0 interface an IP address, and set the default route in the VRF
ip route vrf Mgmt-intf 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <gateway_ip_address> Set the TFTP source interface to Gi0 for file transfers: ip tftp source-interface gigabitEthernet 0 While transferring images to the RP, you can use bootflash: (1GBrecommended) harddisk: (40GBnot recommended) for file storage and subsequent booting
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Configuring Management Ethernet

vrf definition Mgmt-intf ! address-family ipv4 exit-address-family ! address-family ipv6 exit-address-family ... ip domain name vrf Mgmt-intf cisco.com ip name-server vrf Mgmt-intf 171.70.168.183 ip route vrf Mgmt-intf 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.27.55.129 ... interface GigabitEthernet0 vrf forwarding Mgmt-intf ip address 172.27.55.210 255.255.255.128 speed auto duplex auto negotiation auto
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ASR File System Specifics

All media shows up as type disk regardless of type of media (SATA disk, USB flash, etc) harddisk: and bootflash: always formatted as ext2
External usb0:, usb1: can be formatted as FAT16, FAT32, or ext2
No support for multiple partitions at this timeonly first partition on each device is visible
fsck supported for all file system types; /automatic is implicit IOS does not control these devices directly (ie, no flash driver in IOS, no SATA driver in IOSLinux has the drivers, does the mount/umount under the covers)
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show and debug platform CLIs

asr1000#show platform hardware qfp active statistics drop | e _0_ --------------------------------------------------------------Global Drop Stats Packets Octets --------------------------------------------------------------asr1002-1#show platform hardware qfp active statistics drop --------------------------------------------------------------Global Drop Stats Packets Octets --------------------------------------------------------------AttnInvalidSpid 0 0 BadDistFifo 0 0 BadIpChecksum 0 0 BadLen 0 0 BadUidbIdx 0 0 BadUidbSubIdx 0 0 BqsOor 0 0 ChoiceOce 0 0 Disabled 0 0 Discard 0 0 Erspan 0 0 <snip>
asr1002-1#sh platform hardware qfp active datapath utilization

CPP 0 min Input: 0 0 5 secs 1 min 5 min 60
Priority (pps)
(bps)
0
0
0
0
0
0
Non-Priority (pps)
1 (bps)
1
36 1
1
89 1
1
89 1
89
Total (pps) 1
(bps) 89 Output: Priority (pps) 0 (bps) 0 Non-Priority (pps) 1 (bps) 230 Total (pps) 1 (bps) 230 Processing: Load (pct) 0
36
0
89
0
89
0
0
1 345
0
1 230
0
1 230
1
345
1
230
1
230
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Platform Shell
Used when there is not enough information from the IOS CLI Fully functional shell as rootyou can see/break everything from here Shell session is recorded and send to syslog when done platform shell is to be enabled for shell access
asr1000#request platform software system shell r0
Activity within this shell can jeopardize the functioning of the system. Are you sure you want to continue? [y/n] y 2009/06/27 16:58:44 : Shell access was granted to user <anon>; Trace file: , /harddisk/tracelogs/system_shell_R0.log.20090627165844 ********************************************************************** Activity within this shell can jeopardize the functioning of the system. Use this functionality only under supervision of Cisco Support. Session will be logged to: harddisk:tracelogs/system_shell_R0.log.20090627165844 ********************************************************************** Terminal type 'network' unknown. Assuming vt100
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Core dumps, Crashinfo

Core dumps for all processes (IOS, cmand, fman_rp, ) and kernel all get written to harddisk:core/
File name pattern:
<hostname>_<FRU type>_<unit>_<process>_<time>.core.gz
IOSd generates crashinfo files into bootflash: when it crasheslike other IOS based platforms
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Cisco IOS Software in ASR 1000

Simplified Image Selection
SSH
Advanced Enterprise Services-K9 AES

SSHAdvanced IP
Advanced Security Features
Services-K9 AIS
Advanced Security Features
SSH
IP Base-K9
IP Base
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Cisco IOS XE Images for Enterprise and Managed Services/CPE

Optional Features
Cisco ASR 1000 Series Feature Licenses
SW Redundancy SBC IPSec Firewall Flexible Packet Inspection
Cisco ASR1000 Series IP Base (SASR1R1-IPBK9) Cisco ASR1000 Series RP1 Advanced Enterprise Services w/o Crypto (SASR1R1-AES) Legacy IPX, Appletalk, DecNet, etc Cisco ASR1000 Series RP1 Advanced Enterprise Services (SASR1R1-AESK9) Legacy IPX, Appletalk, DecNet, etc Broadband
L2 & L3 VPN
MPLS
Broadband
L2 & L3 VPN MPLS IPv6 ATOM, VPLS PfR SSL, SSH BGP, EIGRP, ISIS, OSPF, RIP ACL HSRP/VRRP HA: BFD, ISSU NAT Multicast SBC
IPv6
ATOM, VPLS PfR Security, LI Multicast SBC SSL, SSH BGP, EIGRP, ISIS, OSPF, RIP
Cisco ASR1000 Series IP Base w/o Crypto (SASR1R1-IPB) BGP, EIGRP, ISIS, OSPF, RIP
ACL
HSRP/VRRP
BGP, EIGRP, ISIS, OSPF, RIP ACL HSRP/VRRP NAT HA: BFD, ISSU Netflow QoS, WCCPv2
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HSRP/VRRP
HA: BFD, ISSU

NAT
NAT
HA: BFD, ISSU
Netflow
QoS, WCCPv2 IPv6 (rls5)
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What Is a Consolidated Package?

Its basically a monolithic image presented as one binary file (asr1000rp1-adventprisek9.bin)
Easiest way of managing system, esp. for customers migrating off of 7200/7300
Functionally identical to a system booted from discrete sub-packages There are four variants of consolidate packages: IP-BASE, IP-BASEK9, AIS-K9, and AES-K9
Booted via boot <media>: asr1000rp1adventprisek9.bin Naming of the file is under full control of the user
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What Is a sub-package?
Its an isolated binary and can be managed separately
There are types and instances; total of 7 types of packages
Each package type is installed only once, but there can be many instances (e.g., 4 in case of SPA per SIP) packages.conf (provisioning file) contains the software set description Booted via boot <media>:packages.conf
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Cisco ASR 1000 Software Packaging

Each functional element of ASR 1000 will support different modular software packages In total, 7 different software packages will be available The packages are designed to maximize the In Service Software Upgrade capability At every release of ASR 1000 software, all 7 components will be integrated and available as one software package for download from CCO
SIP
SIPBase: SIP OS + Control processes SIPSPA: SPA drivers and FPD (SPA FPGA image) ESP ESPBase: ESP OS + Control processes + CPP client/driver/ucode RP
RPBase: RP OS RPControl: Control Plane processes that interface between IOS and the rest of the platform RPIOS RPAccess: Software required for Router access; 2 versions will be available. One that contains open SSH & SSL and one without (RPAccess and RPAccess-K9)
+ ROM Monitor: One ROM Monitor package containing ROMMON for RP, ESP, SIP (released when needed)
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packages.conf
This file provides description and dictates the provisioning of sub-packages for the RP
This must be in the same directory as the other sub-packages file (being referenced from .conf)
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rp_base
This file contains Linux kernel in the same directory as the other sub-packages file (being references from .conf)
This is booted via packages.conf This requires a restart if installed via issu command
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rp_ios
This file contains IOS
This requires a restart if installed via issu command on a single IOS mode With Dual IOS (2/4 RU) or 6RU chassis, this can be upgraded without reboot
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rp_control
This file contains all the middleware processes
This can be installed on all chassis types (2/4/6 RU), or dual IOS without restart
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rp_access
This file contains external ssh, telnet and webUI support
There are two variants of this package (crypto, non-crypto), which corresponds to the rp_ios package included This can be installed on all chassis types (2/4/6 RU), single or dual IOS without restart
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esp_base
This file contains all software for the ESP
This package requires reboot upon completion of the given ESP; hence causes interruption of the traffic for chassis with single ESP (1002F/1002/1004)
On a 6RU chassis, this will result in a rolling upgrade (i.e., ESP-standby will get upgraded first and then become active)
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sip_base
This file contains all software for the SIP except the SPA drivers
This can be installed on all chassis types (2/4/6 RU), single or dual IOS without affecting system RP/ESP
Upon completion of installation, it does cause reboot of the given SIP, hence loss of traffic for the SPAs housed by it The loss of user traffic can be avoided using GEC across SIPs
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sip_spa
This file contains SPA drivers and FPD images
There are four independent instances of SPA drivers running on each SIP This package can be installed without a reboot; upon reboot only the traffic going through the given SPA will be affected The loss of user traffic can be avoided using GEC across SPAs
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ISSU and Utility CLIs

Describe (to get more information for the package)
Snapshot (to extract packages from RP DRAM)

Expand (to extract packages from a consolidated file)
Issu loadversion (loading the package)

Issu runversion (running the package) Issu acceptversion (accepting the package)
Issu abortversion (aborting the package) Issu commitversion (committing the package)
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ASR 1000 Redundancy Support Summary

Software Module
SW Redundancy (ASR100X*)
This contains the underlying Linux kernel so cannot be upgraded in service Requires reboot
ISSU (ASR 1006 / ASR 1013)

The standby RP in the 6RU chassis may be upgraded and then switched over to active mode in service Requires RP (IOS) switchover; No transit packet loss Can be upgraded in service on both active RP and standby RP
RPBase
RPControl Can be upgraded in service

No transit packet loss
No transit packet loss
RPAccess Can be upgraded in service

No transit packet loss Can be upgraded in service if the system is running in dual mode
Requires IOS switchover; No transit packet loss
Can be upgraded in service on both active RP and standby RP No transit packet loss
RPIOS
Can be upgraded on standby RP and switched over to active in service.

Requires RP (IOS) switchover; No transit packet loss
ESPBase
Upgrade causes complete loss of local state (eg: Stats, Stateful FW/NAT) on the ESP and is service affecting.
Upgrade causes complete loss of local state (eg: Stats, Stateful FW/NAT) on the ESP being upgraded and will result in a small traffic interruption in redundant 6RU systems when Forwarding Interruption until upgrade is completed. Router switching to the standby ESP is still accessible. No reboot required Minimal transit packet Interruption - < 50ms; no RP switchover SIPSPA upgraded from the active RP cause the specific SPA to completely reboot and is service affecting that specific SPA. SPA can be upgraded one at a time so only the upgraded SPA is affected during the upgrade.
Hitless for other SPAs not being upgraded
SIPSPA
SIPSPA upgraded from the active RP cause the specific SPA to completely reboot and is service affecting that specific SPA. SPA can be upgraded one at a time so only the upgraded SPA is affected during the upgrade
Hitless for other SPAs not being upgraded Upgrades cause complete loss of local state on the affected SIP, however other SIPs are unaffected by this activity.
SIPBase
Upgrades cause complete loss of local state on the affected SIP, however other SIP (4RU) is unaffected by this activity. Hitless for other SIP (4RU) not being upgraded
Hitless for other SIPs not being upgraded
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Application and Network Intersection Borderless Routing Infrastructure

Enterprise Private Cloud
Internet
Cloud Providers
Iaas/PaaS
WAN
Regional Office
SaaS
Branch Office
Remote Workers
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Branch/ WAN Aggregation

Use Case
Wan links oversubscribed Business Critical Applications competing for bandwidth
Network Solution
Providing the network operator a mechanism to better manage bandwidth on the WAN links, in accordance with business priority. Support all types of WAN physical and subinterfaces including VRF awareness Significant saving and low complexity vs. stand-alone traffic-managers
Benefits
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
55
Enterprise Secure WAN

Use Case
WAN links oversubscribed Business Critical Applications competing for bandwidth
Network Solution
Providing the network operator a mechanism to better manage bandwidth over VPN IP transport, in accordance with business priority. Support for Application Visibility and QoS using NBAR2 on p2p GRE/GRE w/ IPSec and sVTI interfaces
Benefits
Significant saving and low complexity vs. stand-alone traffic-managers
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
56
Internet Edge
Use Case Internet connection oversubscribed
No visibility on applications consuming bandwidth No ability to route to multiple Internet connection based on application
Network Providing the network operator a Solution mechanism to better manage bandwidth on the Internet interconnect, in accordance with business priority
Benefits
Significant saving and low complexity vs. stand-alone trafficmanagers
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
57
Cloud Edge
Use Case Cloud connection oversubscribed No visibility on applications consuming bandwidth No visibility on Application Performance No ability to route to multiple Cloud providers based on application/ user No Cloud SLAs
Google Apps
HQ
QFP
Internet
Network Solution Providing the Network operator a mechanism to better manage bandwidth on the PE routers and provide per customer reports Providing the enterprise customer application visibility, and ability to route on a per application and per user basis to different providers
Salesforce
Oracle CRM
Benefits
Significant saving and complexity vs. stand-alone traffic-managers
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
58
Agenda
Cisco ASR1000 Series Routers
Introduction to ASR1000 Hardware Architecture Software Architecture
Cisco ASR1000 Interfaces, Modules

Cisco Shared Port Adapters (SPA)
Q&A
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
59
Ethernet SPAs
Speed Ports
4 and 8
Interface
TX
Form Factor
Half Height
FE GE GE
10GE 10GE WAN PHY
2, 5, 8
SFP
Half Height
10
SFP
Full Height
XFP
Half Height
XFP
Half Height
Detailed SPA/SFP support matrix: http://tinyurl.com/mvpgm2

Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
60
Serial/Channelized SPAs
Speed Low Speed Serial (4XT)
Channelized T1/E1
Ports
Interface
Form Factor
Details
Transporting some synchronous legacy protocols (such as X.25) over an IP network Clear Channel and Up to 256 DSO Independent HDLC Channels
Copper
Half Height
Copper
Half Height
Clear Channel T3/E3
2 and 4
Copper
Half Height
Full Duplex, Full Rate and Sub Rate Support Integrated DSUs
Up to 112 T1 Ports (28 T1 Multiplexed onto a Single T3) Up to 1024 NxDSO Channels (N=1-24) or 400 with T3 Config Up to 84 T1 or 63 E1 Ports
Channelized T3
2 and 4
Copper
Half Height
Channelized OC-3/STM-1
SFP
Half Height
Up to 1024 NxDSO Channels (N=1-24) or 400 with T3 Config
Presentation_ID

Cisco Public
61
POS/ATM SPAs
Speed OC-3/STM-1 POS OC-12/STM-4
1, 2, 4, 8 SFP Half Height
Ports
2, 4, 8
Interface
SFP
Form Factor
Half Height
POS OC-48/STM-4 POS OC3/STM1 ATM OC12/STM4 ATM CHOC12/DS0 OC192-POS

Presentation_ID
2,4
SFP
Half Height
1,3,8
1 1
SFP
SFP SFP
Half Height
Full Height Full Height
1
Cisco Public
XFP
Full Height
62

POS/ATM SPAs
Speed OC3 Circuit Emulation - ATM CHT3 Circuit Emulation - ATM CHT1 Circuit Emulation - ATM Ports
1
Interface
SFP
Form Factor
Half Height
SFP
Half Height
24
SFP
Half Height

Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
63
Session Summary
Cisco ASR1000 is a flagship IP routing and services platform with bandwidth ranging from 2.5G to 40G
ASR1000 consists of three major components, namely RP (control plane), ESP (data plane), and SIP (I/O plane)
ASR1000 allows you to deploy highly available, secure BN architectures including Enterprise/Cloud/Internet Edge, and Regional/Branch WAN
ASR1000 is future ready, giving you the flexibility and service richness to meet your NGN requirements
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
64
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Cisco Public
65
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Cisco Public
66
ASR1000 Testing Reports

Miercom Phase I: http://tinyurl.com/c2eoeh
Miercom Phase II: http://tinyurl.com/m3t7vq

ISOCORE Phase I: http://tinyurl.com/65xtqh ISOCORE Phase II: http://tinyurl.com/kmc89b
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
67
Questions
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
68
Thank you.
Presentation_ID
Cisco Public
69
Glossary
AAA ACL ACT AF1 AF2 AF3 AF4 ALG ASR B2B BB BGP BITS BNG BQS BRAS BW CAC CCO CDR CF CLI CM CPE CPU CRC Ctrl DBE DMVPN DPI DSCP Authentication, authorization and Accounting Access Control List Active; referring to ESP or RP in an ASR 1006 Assured Forwarding Per Hop behaviour class 1 Assured Forwarding Per Hop behaviour class 2 Assured Forwarding Per Hop behaviour class 3 Assured Forwarding Per Hop behaviour class 4 Application Layer Gateway As in ASR1000; Aggregation Services Router Business to Business in the context of WebEx or Telepresence Broadband Border Gateway Protocol Building Integrated Timing Supply Broadband Network Gateway Buffer, Queuing and Scheduling chip on the QFP Broadband remote Access Server Bandwidth Connection Admission Control Cisco Connection Online (www.cisco.com) Call Detail Records Checkpointing Facility Command Line Interface Chassis Manager Customer Premise Equipment Central Processing Unit Cyclic Redundancy Check Control Data Border Element (in Session Border Controller) Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network Deep Packet Inspection Presentation_ID Diffserv Code Point (see 2010 AF, EF) its affiliates. All rights reserved. also Cisco and/or DSLAM DST EF EOBC ESI ESP FECP FH FIB FM FPM FR-DE FW GigE GRE HA HDTV HH HQF H-QoS HW I2C IOCP IOS XE IPC IPS ISG ISP ISSU L2TP CC LAC Cisco Public Digital subscriber Line Access Multiplexer Destination Expedited Forwarding (see also DSCP) Ethernet out-of-band control channel on the ASR 1000 Enhanced SerDes Interface Embedded Services Processor on the ASR 1000 Forwarding Engine (ESP) Control Processor Full Hight (SPA) Forwarding Information Base Forwarding Manager Flexible Packet Matching Frame Relay Discard Eligible Firewall Gigabit Ethernet Generic Route Encapsulation High Availability High Definition TV Half-hight (SPA) Hierarchical Queuing Framework Hierarchical Quality of Service hardware Inter-Integrated Circuit input output Control Processor Internet Operating system XE (on the ASR 1000) Inter-process communication Intrusion Prevention System Intelligent Services Gateay Internet Service Provider In-service software upgrade Layer 2 Transport Protocol Control connection L2TP access concentrator 70
Glossary
LNS L2TP network Server MFIB Multicast FIB mGRE multipoint GRE MPLS Multiprotocol label switching MPLS-EXP MPLS Exp bits in the MPLS header MPV Video MQC Modular QoS CLI mVPN multicast VPN NAPT Network address port translation NAT network address translation NBAR network based application recognition Nr receive sequence number (field in TCP header) Ns send sequence number (field in TCP header) NSF non-stop forwardign OBFL on board failure logging OIR online insertion and removal OLT optical line termination P1 Priority 1 queue P2 priority 2 queue PAL Platform Adaption layer (middleware in the ASR 1000) PE Provider Edge POST Power on self test POTS Plain old telephony system PQ priority queue PSTN public switched telephone network PTA PPP termination and aggregation PWR power QFP Quantum Flow Processor QFP-PPE QFP packet Processing elements QFP-TM QFP traffic Manager (see also BQS) Presentation_ID Service 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. QoS Quality of RACS RA-MPLS RF RIB RP RP1 RP2 RR RU SBC SBE SBY SDTV SIP SPA SPA SPI SPV Video SRC SSL SSO SW TC TCAM TOS VAI VLAN VOD VTI WAN WRED
Cisco Public
Resource and admission control subsystem Remote access into MPLS redundancy facility (see also CF) routing information base Route processor 1st generation RP on the ASR 1000 2nd generation RP on the ASR 1000 Route reflector rack unit session border controller signalling border element (of an SBC) standby standard definition TV (see also HDTV) Session initiation protocol shared port adapter SPA Serial Peripheral Interface Source Secure Socket Layer stateful switch over software traffic class (field in the IPv6 header) Ternary content addressable memory Type of service (field in the IPv4 header) virtual access interface virtual local area network video on demand virtual tunnel interface wide area network weighted random early discard
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Cisco ASR1000 Series Routers' System & Solution Architectures

Cisco Routing Platform Positioning

Secure WAN Aggregation

ASR 1000 (Up to 40G)

7600 Series/ Catalyst 6500 Series

Consistent LAN/WAN services

High-performance embedded Services, Services Flexibility Hardware/Software Resiliency, Modular Software

Highest Capacity, Highly Available, Modular Services

Secure, Reliable, Concurrent WAN Services Aggregation

Head Office / WAN Aggregation

Cisco ASR1000 Interfaces, Modules

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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Introduction

Embedded Services Processor (ESP) 40 Cores with Traffic Manager

Route Processor (RP) 2.66x2 GHz, Up to 16GB DRAM

Chassis Options: ASR1006

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Chassis Options: ASR1004

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Chassis Options: ASR1002

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Chassis Options: ASR1001

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Route Processor: ASR1000-RP1

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Route Processor: ASR1000-RP2

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Forwarding Processor: ASR1000-ESP10

800MHz ESP CPU Processing Complex for Control

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Forwarding Processor: ASR1000-ESP20

1.2 GHz ESP CPU Processing Complex for Control

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Forwarding Processor: ASR1000-ESP40

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SPA Interface Processor: ASR1000-SIP10, and SIP40

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Forwarding ProcessorEmbedded Services Processor (ESP)

Input scheduler for allocating QFP BW among ESIs

ESP CPU managing QFP, crypto device, mid-plane links, etc

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SPA Interface Processor

Does not participate in forwarding

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ASR 1000 Series

*shared with ESP CP

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ASR1000 RP1 and RP2 Hardware Comparison

Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 2.67GHz

Built-in eUSB bootflash

1GB (8GB on ASR1002)

Hard disk drive size

Cisco IOS XE Operating 32 bit System

ASR1000 Building Blocks

Route Processor (active)

Route Processor (standby)

Embedded Services Processor (standby)

Handles forwarding plane traffic

Centralized Forwarding Architecture

System Bandwidth and Oversubscription

5G Unicast in each direction Total Output bandwidth 5+5=10

RPs are separate from ESPs

Switchover of RP/IOS does not result in switchover of ESP