ASR9000SeriesRouters.PDF

Product Bulletin Cisco IOS XR Software Release 4.3.0 for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers PB722378 Product Overview ® Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers deliver unprecedented scale, service flexibility, and high availability for data centers, cloud networks, and business and residential services transport networks. The routers ® are powered by Cisco IOS XR Software, an innovative, self-healing, distributed operating system designed for always-on operation while scaling system capacity up into multiple Tbps. Cisco IOS XR Software Release 4.3.0 is a feature-filled release, expanding system intelligence in many areas. The broadband network gateway (BNG) portfolio is completed with an IPv6 feature set, ready to expand into address-space-hungry residential deployments. Data center interconnections benefit from Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) and Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) innovations, providing solutions for architectures based on Layer 3 (L3) and Layer 2 (L2). New Hardware Features Cisco IOS XR Software Release 4.3.0 introduces support for two new shared port adapters (SPAs) on the Cisco ASR 9000 Series SPA Interface Processor (SIP) 700. The release also introduces support for an enhanced fan, providing additional cooling capacity to the Cisco ASR 9010 chassis. Table 1 list