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You can determine whether your equipment is causing interference by turning it off. If the interference stops, it was probably caused by the Cisco equipment or one of its peripheral devices. If the equipment causes interference to radio or television reception, try to correct the interference by using one or more of the following measures: •...
Cooling System Overview 1-16 Cooling Path 1-16 Fan Trays 1-16 Management and Configuration 1-17 Functional Description C H A P T E R Router Operation Route Switch Processor Card Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
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DC Power Modules 2-27 DC Power Shelves 2-27 DC Shelf Power Switch 2-27 DC Power Shelf Power Feed Indicator 2-28 DC Module Status Indicators 2-28 DC System Operation 2-29 Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
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Active/Standby Status Interpretation Non-Stop Forwarding Nonstop Routing Graceful Restart Process Restartability Fault Detection and Management Power Supply Redundancy AC Power Redundancy DC Power Redundancy Detection and Reporting of Power Problems Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
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D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Cooling System Redundancy Cooling Failure Alarm N D E X Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
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Front System View of Power Shelves 1-16 Figure 2-1 Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router Platform Architecture Figure 2-2 Major System Components and Interconnections in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router Figure 2-3 RSP Card Front Panel Indicators and Connectors Figure 2-4 Switch Fabric Interconnections...
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ASR 9010 Router Chassis Air Filter 2-34 Figure 2-29 ASR 9006 Router Chassis Air Filter 2-34 Figure 3-1 AC System Power Redundancy Figure 3-2 DC System Power Redundancy Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide viii OL-17501-01...
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RSP LED Matrix Boot Stage and Runtime Display Table 2-3 RSP LED Matrix CAN Bus Controller Status Display Table 2-4 Ethernet Line Cards Available for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router 2-11 Table A-1 ASR 9010 Router Physical Specifications Table A-2...
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Initial release of this document. Audience This Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Overview and Reference Guide is written for hardware installers and system administrators of Cisco routers. This publication assumes that the user has a substantial background in installing and configuring router and switch-based hardware.
ASR 9000 Series Routers. Chapter 2, “Functional Description,” describes in more detail the major components of the • ASR 9000 Series Routers and provides functional descriptions of basic hardware features and operations. • Appendix A, “Technical Specifications,” provides a summary of physical, electrical, and environmental specifications for the router.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html...
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Preface D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers meet carrier-class requirements for redundancy, availability, packaging, power, and other requirements traditional to the Service Provider. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is comprised of two routers, the Cisco ASR 9010 Router and the Cisco ASR 9006 Router.
D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Figure 1-1 shows a fully-configured Cisco ASR 9010 Router with redundant RSPs and power modules, and eight line cards installed.
Chassis Physical Overview ASR 9010 Series Router The Cisco ASR 9010 Router chassis is centered around a redundant pair of Route Switch Processor (RSP) cards, along with eight Ethernet line cards. The 10-slot chassis size fits in Telco, EIA, and ETSI racks and cabinets.
ASR 9006 Series Router The Cisco ASR 9006 Router chassis is centered around a redundant pair of Route Switch Processor (RSP) cards, along with four Ethernet line cards. The 6-slot chassis size fits in Telco, EIA, and ETSI racks and cabinets.
ETSI 45RU rack with a height of 78.74 inches (200.00 cm). The chassis depth for both Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers fits into a 31.50 inch (80.00 cm) deep EIA rack or an equivalent 80.00 cm deep ETSI rack. This space includes cable management space front and rear.
Cisco ASR 9010 Router Chassis Dimensions (Top-down View) Rear of chassis 17.38 in (44.15 cm) 23.21 in 28.93 in (58.95 cm) (73.48 cm) 5.04 in (12.80 cm) 18.92 in (48.06 cm) Front of chassis Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
Front of chassis Chassis Slots All Cisco ASR 9010 Router chassis line cards and RSP cards are front facing and mounted vertically, with injector/ejectors and retention screws at top and bottom of each card. All Cisco ASR 9006 Router chassis line cards and RSP cards are front facing and mounted horizontally, with injector/ejectors and retention screws at the left and right ends of each card.
• Power shelves: • Cisco ASR 9010 Router - one or two AC power shelves (in AC-powered systems), or one or two – DC power shelves (in DC-powered systems) Cisco ASR 9006 Router - one AC power shelf (in AC-powered systems), or one DC power shelf –...
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Fiber and cables are routed upwards away from slot number labels, as shown in Figure 1-8. Therefore slot number labels, located at the lower part of the card cage, are not obscured by the cables. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
A cable tie down point is provided. Figure 1-9 shows the DC power cable routing for the Cisco ASR 9010 Router having two power shelves. The Cisco ASR 9006 Router is similar, but has only one power shelf.
As mentioned previously, fiber and cables are routed upward and do not obscure the slot ID labels. Figure 1-13 shows the slot ID numbering for the Cisco ASR 9010 Router. Figure 1-10 ASR 9010 Router Slot ID Numbering...
The Route Switch Processor (RSP) card is the main control and switch fabric element in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series chassis. There can be two RSP cards in the system. One is the active control RSP and the other is the standby control RSP.
An Auxiliary (AUX) port and Console port are also provided on the RSP front panel. These are EIA/TIA-232 (also known as RS-232) asynchronous serial ports for connecting external devices to monitor and manage the system. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 1-13 OL-17501-01...
RSP card. Ethernet Line Cards Overview The set of three line cards for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers is based on a single, 40G base card containing the processors, fabric interface, power, and forwarding circuitry. Mounted on the base card are one of three daughter cards containing I/O circuitry: •...
Insertion and removal force of the card ejectors is about 16 lb (7.27 kg). Power System Overview The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers can be powered with an AC or DC source power. The power system provides power for the cards and fan trays.
Cisco ASR 9010 Router chassis. The Cisco ASR 9006 Router chassis has a side to top to rear cooling path. The inlet is at the right side of the chassis and exhaust is at the upper rear.
Craft Works Interface (CWI), a graphical craft tool for performance monitoring, is embedded with the Cisco IOS XR software and can be downloaded through the HTTP protocol. A user can use CWI to edit the router configuration file, open Telnet/SSH application windows, and create user-defined applications.
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Overview and Physical Description Management and Configuration D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 1-18 OL-17501-01...
Router Operation The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router are fully distributed routers using a switch fabric to interconnect a series of chassis slots, each of which can hold one of several types of line cards. Each line card in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series has integrated input/output (I/O) and forwarding engines, plus sufficient control plane resources to manage line card resources.
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Line Card Line Card Line Card RSP 0 Switch Fabric RSP 1 Route Processor Figure 2-2 shows the major system components and interconnections of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
Route Switch Processor Card The Route Switch Processor (RSP) card is the main control and switch fabric element in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router. The RSP card provides system control, packet switching, and timing control for the system. To provide redundancy, there can be two RSP cards in the system, one as the active control RSP and the other as the standby RSP.
Compact Flash type I/II CONSOLE and AUX ports Alarm Cutoff (ACO) and LAMP TEST push buttons Sync (BITS/J.211) ports Eight discrete LED indicators Alarm Out DB9 connector LED matrix display Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
The timing function allows precise synchronization of real-time clocks in a network for measurements of network performance, for example, measuring delay across a VPN. The frequency reference acts like a BITS input. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
If there are CAN Bus Controller problems, error messages are displayed. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
ACO LED turns on and the corresponding alarm output contacts revert to the normally open (non-alarm) state, thus suppressing the alarm. If subsequent critical alarms are Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
The switch fabric is 1+1 redundant, with one copy of the fabric on each redundant RSP card. Each RSP card carries enough switching capacity to meet the router throughput specifications, allowing for full redundancy. Figure 2-4 shows the switch fabric interconnections. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
The VOQ scheduler is also one-for-one redundant, with one VOQ scheduler chip on each of the two redundant RSP cards. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
Route Processor Functions The Route Processor (RP) performs the ordinary chassis management functions. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series runs Cisco IOS XR software, so the RP runs the centralized portions of the software for chassis control and management. Secondary functions of the RP include boot media, Building Integrated Timing Supply (BITS) timing, precision clock synchronization, backplane Ethernet communication, and power control (through a separate CAN bus controller network).
4-port10 Gigabit Ethernet (4x10GE) line card XFP Functional Description The Ethernet line cards for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router provide forwarding throughput of line rate for packets as small as 64 bytes. The small form factor pluggable (SFP or XFP) transceiver module ports are polled periodically to keep track of state changes and optical monitor values.
FPGAs to the fabric interface chip is 60 Gbps. The total bandwidth from fabric interface chip to the backplane is 46 Gbps redundant. The fabric interface chip connects through four 23 Gbps links to the backplane. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-12 OL-17501-01...
Figure 2-7 40x1GE Line Card Block Diagram 10 x SFP FPGA 10 x SFP Fabric Interface Chip 10 x SFP FPGA 10 x SFP 40x1GE Line Card Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-13 OL-17501-01...
2 Port 0 SFP cage 6 Port 39 SFP cage 3 Port Status LED (one per port) 7 Port 1 SFP cage 4 Port 38 SFP cage 8 Captive installation screw Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-14 OL-17501-01...
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1 Ejector lever 4 Port 7 XFP cage 2 Port 0 XFP cage 5 Line Card Status LED 3 Port Status LED (one per port) 6 Captive installation screw Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-16 OL-17501-01...
Figure 2-11 4x10GE Line Card Block Diagram 10GE XFP FPGA 10GE XFP Fabric Interface Chip 10GE XFP FPGA 10GE XFP 4x10GE Line Card Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-17 OL-17501-01...
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1 Ejector lever 4 Port 3 XFP cage 2 Port 0 XFP cage 5 Line Card Status LED 3 Port Status LED (one per port) 6 Captive installation screw Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-18 OL-17501-01...
Power System Functional Description The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router can be powered with an AC or DC source power. The power system is based on a distributed power architecture centered around a –54 VDC printed circuit power bus on the system backplane.
Each shelf can house up to three modules and can be configured for multiple power configurations (See Figure 1-13 on page 1-16). For more information about power system redundancy, see the “Power Supply Redundancy” section on page 3-3. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-23 OL-17501-01...
System communication is through a I2C cable from the backplane. Figure 2-18 AC Power Shelf Rear Panel Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-24 OL-17501-01...
AC power source. The AC/DC modules in the power shelves stay within regulation for a minimum of 16 ms after the AC power is removed. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-25 OL-17501-01...
ON when the power module output voltage is present. BLINKING when the power module is in a power limit or overcurrent condition. Fault LED ON to indicate that a power supply failure has occurred. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-26 OL-17501-01...
DC Shelf Power Switch Each DC power shelf provides a single-pole, single-throw power switch to power on and off the three power modules installed in the shelf simultaneously. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-27 OL-17501-01...
RTN B+ PWR B- RTN B+ PWR B- Power feed indicators DC Module Status Indicators Figure 2-23 shows the status indicator for the DC power module and their definition. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-28 OL-17501-01...
This section describes the normal sequence of events for system DC power up and power down. Power Up DC power is applied to the power shelf by toggling the customer’s DC circuit breakers to “ON” position. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-29 OL-17501-01...
The output of the DC/DC converters stays in regulation for an additional 100 microseconds. Cooling System Functional Description The Cisco ASR 9000 Series chassis is cooled by two fan trays located below the card cage. The two fan trays provide full redundancy and maintain required cooling if a single fan failure should occur.
Room air Power modules Front air Power modules intake Figure 2-25 ASR 9006 Router Chassis Cooling Path Air exhaust Fan trays RSPs and line cards Room air Power modules Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-31 OL-17501-01...
A finger guard is adjacent to the front of most of the fans to keep fingers away from spinning fan blades during removal of the fan tray. Maximum weight of the fan tray is 39.7 lbs (18.0 kg). Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-32 OL-17501-01...
To maintain optimum cooling performance in the chassis and at the slot level, unused slots must be filled with card blanks or flow restrictors. These slot fillers are simple sheet metal only and are not active. Software cannot detect their existence. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-33 OL-17501-01...
D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Chassis Air Filter The chassis air filters in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router are NEBS compliant. The filter is not serviceable. but is a field replaceable unit (FRU). Replacing the filter will not interrupt service.
When the system reaches critical operating temperature points, it triggers a shutdown sequence of the system. System Management and Configuration The Cisco IOS XR Software on the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router provides the system manageability interfaces: CLI, XML, and SNMP. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide...
D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Cisco IOS XR Software The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Router run Cisco IOS XR Software and use the manageability architecture of that operating system, which includes CLI, SNMP, and XML. Craft Works Interface (CWI), a graphical craft tool for performance monitoring, is embedded with the Cisco IOS XR Software and can be downloaded through the HTTP protocol.
For SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c support, the system supports SNMP View to allow inclusion/exclusion of Miss for specific community strings. The SNMP interface allows the SNMP SET operation. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide 2-37 OL-17501-01...
CISCO-BGP4-MIB Online Diagnostics System run-time diagnostics are used by the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and/or the end user to troubleshoot a field problem and assess the state of a given system. Some examples of the run-time diagnostics include the following: •...
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Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. Features Overview The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers are designed to have high Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and low Mean Time To Resolve (MTTR) rates, thus providing a reliable platform that minimizes outages or downtime and maximizes availability.
RSP card to the other. Non-Stop Forwarding Cisco IOS XR Software supports non-stop forwarding (NSF) to enable the forwarding of packets without traffic loss during a brief outage of the control plane. NSF is implemented through signaling and routing protocol implementations for graceful restart extensions as standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Power Supply Redundancy The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers are configured in such a way that a power module failure or its subsequent replacement does not cause a significant outage. A power supply failure or over/under voltage at the output of the power supply is detected and an alarm raised.
For Cisco ASR 9010 Routers, the slot location of a module in the shelf is irrelevant as long as the redundant power shelf has an equal number of modules. For Cisco ASR 9006 Routers, the slot location of a module in the shelf is irrelevant as long as there are N+1 number of modules.
The Cisco ASR 9010 Router has two fan trays at the bottom of the card shelf. Each fan tray has 12 fans arranged in three groups of four fans each. Two fans of each group share a fan controller. The power supplied to the fan controller is 1:3 protected.
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High Availability and Redundant Operation Cooling System Redundancy D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L A P P E N D I X Technical Specifications This appendix lists the specifications for the Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router. The specifications are presented in the following tables: Table A-1, “ASR 9010 Router Physical Specifications”...
D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Table A-2 lists the physical specifications for the Cisco ASR 9006 Router. Table A-2 ASR 9006 Router Physical Specifications...
D R A F T — C I S C O C O N F I D E N T I A L Table A-4 lists the AC electrical specifications for the Cisco ASR 9006 Router. Table A-4 ASR 9006 AC Electrical Specifications...
N+1 redundancy for a fully-configured system. 1. For each DC power module. Table A-7 lists the AC input voltage range for the AC-powered Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers (single phase power source). Table A-7 AC Input Voltage Range...
GLC-GE-100FX SFP transceiver modules are installed in the router. This is due to the lower temperature specifications of the SFP module. Please contact a Cisco representative for more information. 2. 4-post rack with front and rear doors and right side panel removed or with 65% (minimum) perforated area .
Triple-speed (10M/100M/1000M) RJ-45 Sync ports (0, 1) Can be configured as one of the following: • BITS (Building Integrated Timing System) port • J.211 or UTI (Universal Timing Interface) port Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide OL-17501-01...
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See also power supply, AC-input shelf description 2-24 shelf illustration 2-24 shelf switch 2-25 cabling source AC service requirement A-2, A-3 cable management tray, ASR 9010 system operation 2-25 cable routing 1-10 Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide IN-1 OL-17501-01...
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MIBs 2-38 See cabling MIBs flash disk MIBs 2-38 See SNMP, MIBs FRUs, list modular microkernel operating system MPLS MIBs 2-39 multicast traffic, RSP card management of 2-10 Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide IN-3 OL-17501-01...
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A-3, A-4 redundancy status indicators 2-28 AC-input power specifications A-2, A-3 status indicators, illustration 2-29 cooling system power shelf DC-input power specifications A-3, A-4 AC-input MIBs 2-38 description 2-24 Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide IN-4 OL-17501-01...
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See also route processor multicast traffic 2-10 serviceability 1-14 overview stateful switchover unicast traffic switch fabric See switch fabric, RSP card Sync ports temperature See also cooling system Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide IN-5 OL-17501-01...
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RSP card management of vibration specifications, system voltage AC-input power module A-2, A-3 AC-input power supply A-2, A-3 DC-input power module A-3, A-4 XML management interface 2-36 Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router Overview and Reference Guide IN-6 OL-17501-01...