Details:
Description
Product feature Benefits and description
x86 Based Platform Architecture
  • Advanced flow based forwarding reduces overhead for stateful features
  • Dynamic core allocation architecture that can leverage data plane cores for I/O and service plane as per-user configuration
  • Higher performance routing and SD-WAN with services
IPsec
  • Up to 2.5X higher IPsec throughput compared to ASR1001-X/ASR1002-X, 19 Gbps (1400 bytes, clear text)
High Performance Control Plane
  • Intel x86 CPU with multiple cores allocated to control plane with 16 GB memory default (up to 64 GB memory) for high-speed control plane processes
Interface flexibility
  • Includes 1G and flexible 1G/10G interfaces
DRAM
  • All Catalyst 8500 Edge Platforms have 16 GB default DRAM and can be upgraded to 32 GB or 64 GB for higher scale
Flash storage
  • Default 16G eUSB for storage and can be upgraded 32G eUSB for additional storage on the platform
SSD Storage
  • Optional SSD M.2 NVMe 2TB upgrade for additional storage on the platform
Redundancy
  • High-efficiency dual power supplies by default for power supply redundancy
  • All Catalyst 8500 Edge Platforms support software redundancy with 2 Cisco IOS processes running on a single device (IOS XE routing mode)
Form factor
  • Compact 1RU form factor
Integrated security
  • Hardware-anchored Secure Boot and Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) support for Plug and Play to verify the identity of the hardware and software

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