The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers provide a robust and scalable router platform for enterprise and service provider networks. These routers offer high performance routing with modular, redundant components. Key features include high availability with redundant route processors, power supplies, and fans, a modular chassis design with separate control and data planes, flexible configuration options from 1RU to 13RU, and throughput from 2.5 Gbps to 200 Gbps with ASR 1000 Series Embedded Services Processors. The routers provide advanced services like encryption, Network Address Translation (NAT), firewall, and QoS implemented in hardware. They use a modular Cisco IOS XE software architecture and offer investment protection with pay-as-you-grow licensing on “X” models.

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series is positioned at the WAN edge, aggregating traffic from branch offices and data centers. The routers help enterprises and service providers handle the rapid growth of network traffic driven by trends like mobility, video, and cloud services.