Network World testers give Cisco ASR 1000 the thumbs-up

Cisco's new ASR 1000 scored a high 4.38 points out of 5 in Network World's exclusive test of the router. Tester David Newman remarked that the ASR "proved a capable performer when handling multicast and IPSec VPN traffic. And with a 40-core processor, the ASR has enough headroom to run firewalls, load balancers and other services without requiring additional hardware." Newman also noted that the product's data-plane capacity still needed to grow and that Cisco has yet to roll out all the services that ASRs eventually will support.

Newman described the ASR 1000 series as replacing the aging 7200 routers, but VoIP expert and Cisco Subnet blogger Avner Izhar writes that the 1000 could is designated to replace the 7500 family more than the 7200. He writes that the 1000 has "far more horse powers then a 7200, so it might be considered an up-scale or upgrade to it but not a one to one replacement." Read Izhar's blog for his thoughts on the 1000's Session Border Controller function.

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