The Cisco ASR 1000 series Aggregation Services Routers are midrange routers that establish a price-to-performance class offering, benefiting both service providers and enterprises. The Cisco ASR 1000 series provides a significant enhanced value compared to prior generations of Cisco midrange routing solutions by providing more than tenfold performance improvement with services running. Additionally, the routers have hardware and software redundancy, as well as a high-availability design.The Cisco ASR 1000 series delivers multiple services embedded in the Cisco QuantumFlow processor at wire speeds of up to 20Gbps. The services supported on the Cisco QuantumFlow processor include security services, quality of service (QoS), Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR), Cisco IOS Flexible Packet Matching (FPM), broadband aggregation, and Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition), among others.