White Paper Abstract:
The Cisco® ASR 9000 Series deliver exceptional high availability into Carrier Ethernet transport networks for applications including residential broadband services, efficient IPTV and video distribution, voice over IP (VoIP), business VPN services, wholesale services, and mobile applications such as back haul transport. To support these applications, the Cisco ASR 9000 Series is designed to work with many different types of access technologies, to reach consumer and business customers (for example, DSL, passive optical networks [PONs], Ethernet, cable, and mobile). The router is powered by Cisco IOS® XR Software-an innovative self-healing, distributed operating system designed for continuous system operations and supporting network resiliency to maximize overall network availability for these applications.