Cisco ASR 1002-X Router ASR1002X-AIS-AX

Features

Advanced Services (AX)

The Cisco ASR1002-X Router is equipped with Advanced Services (AX) to provide users with a comprehensive set of capabilities that enhance network performance, security, and availability. AX includes features such as advanced firewall and intrusion prevention system (IPS) capabilities, quality of service (QoS) controls, and advanced routing protocols. These advanced services ensure that your network remains secure and performs optimally, even in high-demand environments.

Enhanced Security

One of the key benefits of the AX feature is enhanced security. With the Advanced Services capabilities, the ASR1002-X Router offers robust firewall and IPS functionality. This allows you to protect your network from unauthorized access, malicious attacks, and data breaches. The router can inspect and filter traffic at the application layer, providing granular control over network traffic. By implementing advanced security measures, you can safeguard your sensitive data and ensure regulatory compliance.

Improved Quality of Service

Another advantage of the AX feature is the improved quality of service (QoS) controls. QoS allows you to prioritize network traffic based on specific criteria, ensuring that critical applications and services receive the necessary bandwidth and resources. With the ASR1002-X Router's QoS capabilities, you can define policies to allocate bandwidth according to your organization's requirements. This ensures that important applications, such as voice or video conferencing, receive uninterrupted service, even during peak usage periods.

Application Visibility and Control (AVC)

The Cisco ASR1002-X Router also includes Application Visibility and Control (AVC) features that enable deep packet inspection and application-level traffic analysis. AVC allows you to gain valuable insights into your network's performance by identifying individual applications and their associated traffic patterns. This information helps you make informed decisions regarding bandwidth allocation, network optimization, and troubleshooting.

Granular Traffic Analysis

With AVC, you can analyze network traffic at a granular level, identifying the applications consuming the most bandwidth or causing performance bottlenecks. This information helps you optimize your network resources by allocating bandwidth according to the importance of each application. You can also identify and prioritize business-critical applications, ensuring their performance is not impacted by non-essential traffic. Additionally, AVC provides real-time visibility into network usage, allowing you to detect anomalies or suspicious activities that may indicate security threats.

Improved Troubleshooting

AVC greatly simplifies troubleshooting by providing detailed visibility into application-level traffic. When network issues arise, you can quickly identify whether the problem lies with a specific application or the underlying network infrastructure. This enables faster resolution of issues, reducing downtime and improving overall network reliability. With AVC, you can proactively monitor and manage your network performance, ensuring smooth operations and minimizing disruptions to end-users.

Application Intelligence Services (AIS)

The Cisco ASR1002-X Router is equipped with Application Intelligence Services (AIS), which provide advanced features to optimize application delivery and performance. AIS includes features such as load balancing, SSL offloading, and content caching, all of which enhance the user experience and improve overall application performance.

Load Balancing

Load balancing is a crucial aspect of optimizing application delivery. With AIS, the ASR1002-X Router can distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers or resources, ensuring efficient utilization of resources and preventing overloading. This not only improves application performance but also enhances scalability and reliability. By evenly distributing the workload, load balancing maximizes resource utilization and minimizes response times for end-users.

SSL Offloading

AIS includes SSL offloading capabilities that relieve the burden of SSL/TLS encryption from application servers. The router can handle SSL/TLS encryption and decryption processes, freeing up server resources to focus on processing application requests. This improves application performance and scalability, as servers can handle more requests without being constrained by SSL/TLS processing overhead. SSL offloading also enhances security by centralizing the management of SSL certificates and providing better control over encryption protocols.

Content Caching

Content caching is another valuable feature offered by AIS. The ASR1002-X Router can cache frequently accessed content, such as images, videos, or web pages, locally. When users request these resources, the router retrieves them from the cache instead of fetching them from the origin server each time. This significantly reduces latency and network congestion, resulting in faster content delivery and improved user experience. Content caching also reduces bandwidth usage and optimizes network resources by minimizing repetitive data transfers.

Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS) Bundle

The Cisco ASR1002-X Router comes bundled with Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS), which optimize application delivery over wide area networks (WANs). Was combined with WAN optimization techniques, such as data compression, caching, and traffic prioritization, to enhance the performance of business-critical applications across geographically dispersed locations.

Accelerated Application Performance

was improves application performance by reducing latency and enhancing bandwidth efficiency. By compressing data before transmission, it minimizes the amount of data sent over the WAN, leading to faster transfer times. Additionally, vWAAS utilizes caching techniques to store frequently accessed data locally, reducing the need to retrieve data from remote servers. This accelerates application response times and enables users in remote locations to access critical applications with minimal delays.

Bandwidth Optimization

With vWAAS, bandwidth optimization is achieved through various techniques like data deduplication and protocol optimization. Data deduplication eliminates redundant data transmissions by identifying and removing duplicate data patterns. This reduces the amount of data traversing the WAN, optimizing bandwidth utilization and improving overall network performance. Protocol optimization ensures that application traffic is prioritized based on its importance, minimizing the impact of network congestion on critical applications.

Improved User Experience

The was bundle significantly improves the user experience by delivering faster application response times and reducing network latency. Users in remote locations can access centralized applications with minimal delays, leading to increased productivity and satisfaction. The optimized WAN performance also allows for seamless collaboration across geographically dispersed teams, enhancing business efficiency. By providing a superior user experience, vWAAS helps organizations maximize the value of their WAN investments and improve overall operational efficiency.

In conclusion, the Cisco ASR1002-X Router's AX, AVC, AIS, and vWAAS Bundle features offer numerous benefits to users. Advanced services enhance security and quality of service, ensuring a secure and optimized network environment. Application visibility and control provide deep insights into network traffic, facilitating efficient resource allocation and troubleshooting. Application intelligence services optimize application delivery and performance, improving user experience and scalability. Finally, the virtual wide area application services bundle enhances application performance over WANs, reducing latency and optimizing bandwidth utilization. With these features, the Cisco ASR1002-X Router is an ideal choice for organizations seeking a robust and high-performance networking solution.