Suggestions for Cisco CUBE Router Hardware Platform

[Kyle Sullivan]

I am building a new Cisco collaboration lab environment for CUCM 12.5 / and supporting collaboration applications. I am looking for recommendations for a modern Cisco router platform and IOS to configure CUBE, DSP's, Call Manager Express and connect to an ITSP. This is a lab environment for learning, testing and developing compatible applications. I am getting confused if I should go in the direction for ISR 4000 or 1000 series router and which OS/ licensing is required.

Thanks,

Kyle

[Nithin Eluvathingal]

Supported platforms for cube 14, you can go with 1000 platform. 

Table 2.        CUBE Platform Support

Router platform	Minimum memory requirement	Maximum trunk sessions	Maximum sustainable call setup rate (Calls per second)
Cisco 1100 ISR1	Default	500	5
Cisco 4321 ISR	4 GB	500	4
Cisco 4331 ISR	4 GB	1000	10
Cisco 4351 ISR	4 GB	2000	13
Cisco 4431 ISR	8 GB	3000	15
Cisco 4451-X ISR	8 GB	6000	40
Cisco 4461 ISR	8 GB	10,000	55
C8200-1N-4T	8GB	2500	14
C8300-1N1S-6T	8GB	7000	40
C8300-1N1S-4G2X	8GB	8000	45
C8300-2N2S-6T	8GB	7500	42
C8300-2N2S-4T2X	16GB	10,000	55
Cisco CSR 1000V / C8000V 1vCPU2	4 GB	1000	5
Cisco CSR 1000V / C8000V 2vCPU2	4 GB	3000	20
Cisco CSR 1000V / C8000V 4vCPU2	8 GB	6000	30
Cisco ASR 1001-X	16 GB	12,000	50
Cisco ASR 1002-X	16 GB	14,000	55
Cisco ASR 1006-X with RP3 and ESP100/ESP100X	16 GB	16,000	65
Cisco ASR 1004 / ASR 1006 / ASR 1006-X with RP2 and ESP40	16 GB	16,000

[Kyle Sullivan]

Thank you Nithin. Can you point me in the direction on where to find the part numbers for for VSEC/ K9 and licensing for ISR 1000 / 4331 routers? I've been looking on Cisco Website, but haven't had much definitive luck.

Thanks again,

Kyle

[Nithin Eluvathingal]

As @Vaijanath Sonvane  mentioned go for ISR 4k.If you are planning for BOX-to-BOX redundancy you need to go with 4331. Isr 4321 has only  two network port so  box to box redundancy won't be possible.  

CUBE smart license ordering information

Product code	Description
L-CUBE	Top-level part number. Select this first
CUBE License options
CUBE14-T-STD	One Standard Trunk Session License
CUBE14-T-ENH	One Enhanced Trunk Session License (Includes support for box-to-box redundancy)
CUBE14-L-STD	One Standard Lineside License
CUBE14-MP	Entitlement for one Media Fork with support for box-to-box redundancy

[Vaijanath Sonvane · Accepted solution]

Hi,

All router models belonging to Cisco 1100 ISR supports CUBE functionality in Cisco IOS XE Gibraltar 16.12.1a onwards. You can find router part numbers in this URL:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/1000-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/datasheet-c78-739512.html 

You need to order CUBE licenses separately using L-CUBE Part number.

For 4321, you can use ISR4321-VSEC/K9.

Please note that many features such as DSP, Transcoding, High Availability etc. are not supported by ISR 1000 Series. You can check below URL for more details:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/supported-platforms.html 

I would recommend to go with Cisco 4000 series (except 4221) as it supports all voice related features.

[Kyle Sullivan]

Vaijanath,

Thank you and everyone that replied to my post for the help and guidance. 

Kyle Sullivan