Cisco ASR 9010 copper SFP+ compatibility

[jassimpbedi]

Hi All, we recently deployed a new Cisco ASR 9010 is one of the data centers. The issue is that it does'nt support 10g SFP+ copper cable.

Although the problem got resolved when we replaced copper cable with LC-LC 10g sm fibers and SFP+ 10g Transceivers but does IOS-XR is not build to support 10g copper SFP+ cables at all or is there any command to tweak the OS to support copper?

We're using Cisco ASR 9000 24-port 10GE line card in this router.

We have a Cisco Nexus 3064 Layer 2 to which this router is connected. Is it the nexus or ASR which does'nt support copper ?

Thanks in Advance,

Jasbir

[smilstea]

The 24x10 supports some copper:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/transceiver_modules/compatibility/matrix/10GE_Tx_Matrix.html

SFP-H10GB-ACU7M
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M

As for tweaking the OS there are the standard hidden unsupported transceiver commands but those are best effort.

Thanks,

Sam

[Vladimir Bures]

Hello Sam,

please, is there any plan to add support of SFP-H10GB-ACU7M, SFP-H10GB-ACU10M, on ASR9001 (on-board SPF+ ports)?

It would have significant benefit for our customers (small SP).

Kind regards

Vladimir

[smilstea]

They are supported, starting in 5.1.1/5.2.0

[Vladimir Bures]

Please,

is it documented on CCO somewhere? (I was not able to find this info in "Compatibility Matrix" nor in Release Notes.)

If not yet documented, could you, please, initiate documentation update?

Thank you

Vladimir

[smilstea]

We are working to get the documentation updated with this optic. Should be done sometime this week.

Sam

[xthuijs]

Just to conclude this piece, sam and i got word that this was now updated to the following documents:

The Twinax cable updates are now available on CCO in these links:
ü  ASR9000 Release Notes 5.1.1 section Hardware Introduced in Release 5.1.1
ü  ASR9001 Hardware Installation Guide, chapter Technical Specification, section Power Consumption Specification and Table A-11 Cisco 10-Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ Transceiver Modules.

xander