White Paper Abstract:
This reports presents the highlights of an independent product evaluation conducted by Isocore of Cisco ASR 1000 series Aggregation Service Router (ASR) based on a request by Cisco. The testing primarily focused on evaluating the ability of the Cisco ASR platform to support a large number of layer 3 interfaces. In addition, the testing included verification of the Cisco ASR High-Availability implementation which ensures minimal or no traffic loss during a forwarding or route processor failure, BGP route scalability, and multicast replication to a large number of groups. The testing performed was in accordance with Isocore's stringent requirements for validating aggregation routes for their ability to support large number of interfaces, subscribers, and maintaining hitless data forwarding.