Five years ago, Cisco set out to develop a new line of edge routers: $250 million and over 100 engineers later, enter the Aggregation Services Router (ASR). The platform runs on IOS XE, a new version ...

Cisco today announced that every Cisco ASR 9000 router that it has shipped is eligible for an upgrade to a fourth-generation network processor via a new line card. But perhaps the bigger news is that ...

Networking vendor Cisco has upgraded its ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, with new models capable of streaming at 96 Tbps, and has also confirmed its first customers. The system consists ...

With an eye towards easing potential performance and capacity constraints at the edge of the network, Cisco has bumped up the performance and configuration options for its workhorse router families.

In an exclusive Clear Choice test, the ASR not only moved traffic at 20Gbps but also did so while running QoS, security and monitoring functions on 120 million flows from hundreds of concurrent ...