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    Microbursts are small spikes in network traffic that commonly occur when traffic flows from a high-speed interface like 10GE to a low-speed interface like 1GE. This can cause issues like jitter, latency, and packet drops. The Cisco ASR 920 platform is better equipped than older platforms to handle microbursts, with its higher-clocked ASIC introducing less latency. Tests showed the ASR 920 had latency of around 6 microseconds for traffic up to 1Gbps, while the older ME3600X saw latency climbing above 800Mbps and reaching 500 microseconds at 1Gbps with packet drops. The ASR 920 also has larger default buffers that can be further increased using commands to better accommodate micro

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    Microbursts are small spikes in network traffic that commonly occur when traffic flows from a high-speed interface like 10GE to a low-speed interface like 1GE. This can cause issues like jitter, latency, and packet drops. The Cisco ASR 920 platform is better equipped than older platforms to handle microbursts, with its higher-clocked ASIC introducing less latency. Tests showed the ASR 920 had latency of around 6 microseconds for traffic up to 1Gbps, while the older ME3600X saw latency climbing above 800Mbps and reaching 500 microseconds at 1Gbps with packet drops. The ASR 920 also has larger default buffers that can be further increased using commands to better accommodate micro

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    Microbursts are small spikes in network traffic that commonly occur when traffic flows from a high-speed interface like 10GE to a low-speed interface like 1GE. This can cause issues like jitter, latency, and packet drops. The Cisco ASR 920 platform is better equipped than older platforms to handle microbursts, with its higher-clocked ASIC introducing less latency. Tests showed the ASR 920 had latency of around 6 microseconds for traffic up to 1Gbps, while the older ME3600X saw latency climbing above 800Mbps and reaching 500 microseconds at 1Gbps with packet drops. The ASR 920 also has larger default buffers that can be further increased using commands to better accommodate micro

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    Microbursts are small spikes in network traffic that commonly occur when traffic flows from a high-speed interface like 10GE to a low-speed interface like 1GE. This can cause issues like jitter, latency, and packet drops. The Cisco ASR 920 platform is better equipped than older platforms to handle microbursts, with its higher-clocked ASIC introducing less latency. Tests showed the ASR 920 had latency of around 6 microseconds for traffic up to 1Gbps, while the older ME3600X saw latency climbing above 800Mbps and reaching 500 microseconds at 1Gbps with packet drops. The ASR 920 also has larger default buffers that can be further increased using commands to better accommodate micro

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    White Paper

    Handling Microburst on Cisco ASR 920 Platforms

    © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 1 of 4
    What are Microbursts?
    Commonly, Microbursts are referred to as small spikes in network traffic.

    In Service Provider Access networks, Microbursts commonly occur in speed mismatch scenarios where a traffic
    flow enters the router from a high speed interface like 10GE and egresses out through a low speed interface like 1
    GE.

    Problems caused by MIcrobursts.


    Jitters, latency, followed by Packet drops are the most common causes. There are several parameters of a router
    that is used to evaluate its capability to handle microbursts.

    ASIC Clocking Rate


    Higher the ASIC clock speed more linear the router is in switching packets. Lack of finer linearity introduces
    buffering, which adds Latency and Jitter. Networks built with routers that have lower clock speeds tend to add
    latency at every node leading to packet drops.

    Buffers
    Some of the packet drops can be mitigated by allocating more buffers to the queues, buffering packets avoids
    packet drops, albeit bigger buffers introduce higher latencies, and hence having bigger buffers does not alleviate
    issues all the times.

    Comparing ME3600X and ASR 920


    A series of tests were performed to compare ME3600X and ASR 920. ASR 920 is viewed as a next generation of
    the ME3600X. The switching ASIC used in ASR 920 has higher (faster) clock speed when compared to the ASIC
    used in ME3600X. This was substantiated with the tests performed on ASR 920 and ME3600X, and observing the
    latency values. The latency values exhibited by ME3600X was more as compared to ASR 920.

    Traffic flow with rates from 0 to 1Gbps were from a 10GE interface through the router and out of a 1GE interface,
    and the following observations were made:

    • ASR920 - The latency values were around 6 microseconds for traffic rates from 0 to 1Gbps.

    • ME3600X – The latency values started from around 11 microseconds, after 600 Mbps the latency values
    climbed gradually, extending significantly after 800mbps to reach 500 microseconds at 1Gbps with some
    packet drops.

    Cisco ASR 920 Buffer


    Cisco ASR 920 is the Next Generation Converged Access Portfolio. The total Buffer available on board is 12 MB.
    The Default Buffer allocated for queues created on 1GE interface is 48KB and for the queues created on 10 GE
    interface is 120KB. When the Bursts propagate from 10GE interface to a 1GE interface, sometimes the default
    buffer size may have to be increased to accommodate additional packets. This can be achieved using the
    command queue-limit.

    © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 2 of 4
    ASR920(config-pmap-c)#queue-limit ?

    <1-2097152> in bytes, <1-1677721> in us, <1-8192000> in packets by default

    percent % of threshold

    Configuration Example
    !

    policy-map p1

    class cos1

    class class-default

    queue-limit percent 100

    interface GigabitEthernet0/0/11

    no ip address

    media-type sfp

    negotiation auto

    service instance 100 ethernet

    encapsulation dot1q 100

    service-policy output p1

    bridge-domain 100

    Conclusion
    The ASR 920 with a higher clocked ASIC can handle microburst better when compared to the older generation
    platforms with lower clock speed ASIC. And hence the ASR 920 does not need as deep buffers as the older
    generation platforms to handle microbursts.

    © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 3 of 4
    Printed in USA CXX-XXXXXX-XX 10/11

    © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 4 of 4

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