Ask the Expert: ASR9000 Hardware Architecture

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With Satya Narra and Xander Thuijs 

Welcome to the Cisco Support Community. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about software installation, SMU installation, ASR9000 architecture, installing satellite (ASR9000 nv), and troubleshooting of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers with experts Satya Narra and Xander Thuijs.

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers product family offers a significant added value compared to the prior generations of carrier Ethernet routing offerings. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is an operationally simple, future-optimized platform using next-generation hardware and software. 

Satya Narra is a network consulting engineer and specialist in ASR9000 deployments for service provider networks. He is an expert in many technology areas, including IP routing, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, multicast, system architecture, and network design. Satya has a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. He started his career as a customer support engineer in TAC/HTTS supporting some of the biggest networks, including Comcast, Citi, Amazon, JPMorgan, AT&T, Vodofone, and others.   

Xander Thuijs is a principal engineer for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series and Cisco IOS-XR product family at Cisco. He is an expert and advisor in many technology areas, including IP routing, WAN, WAN switching, MPLS, multicast, BNG, ISDN, VoIP, Carrier Ethernet, System Architecture, network design and many others. He has more than 20 years of industry experience in carrier Ethernet, carrier routing, and network access technologies. Xander  holds a dual CCIE certification (number 6775) in service provider and voice technologies. He has a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Hogeschool van University in Amsterdam.

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Satya might not be able to answer each question due to the volume expected during this event. Remember that you can continue the conversation in Service Providers community,  sub-community, XR OS and Platforms discussion forum shortly after the event. This event lasts through February 14, 2014. Visit this forum often to view responses to your questions and the questions of other community members.

[daniel.dib]

Hi Satya and Xander,

I have some questions on ASR9k platform. First some questions on NV satellite:

Is there a list of features not supported on the host? Such as LACP.

Do you have a roadmap for these features?

ASR9000v can't act as transit for traffic, correct?

And for the ASR9k:

Do you support IGMP snooping and PIM snooping under VPLS?

Are there counters available via SNMP for amount of traffic in an EVC?

Is it possible to run VPLS aware Netflow to graph traffic within VFI?

Daniel Dib
CCIE #37149

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[Satya Narra]

Hello Daniel,

Yes, you are right, ASR9000v cannot act as a transit for traffic

Going forward Satellite will be supporting

With 5.2.x and 5.3.x we will be adding the following features.

Multicast Offload

Bundle over Bundle

Dual head-ARP, ND Sync.

Satellites, use ICCP so there might not be any plans to implement LACP in the future.

Regards,

--Satya Narra

[daniel.dib]

So if you want to dual home a host that is not possible or will the satellites act as one device?

Daniel Dib
CCIE #37149

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[Eddie Chami]

You can dual host in 5.1.1. You will need a sat lic on each 9k that is hosting that Sat.
Check 511 asr9000 release notes for more details.
Eddie.

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[daniel.dib]

What I meant was the end host (customer) not the NV host.

Daniel Dib
CCIE #37149

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