Build a network with breakthrough density and scale with reliable support at every stage of growth.
Enjoy sustainable and secure simplicity
Create an infrastructure that works as hard as you do, experience efficiency, and secure growth with Cisco 8000 Series Routers powered by Cisco Silicon One ASICs.
Simplify for boosted network efficiency and a happier operations team.
Enhance security with reliable and trustworthy critical infrastructure.
Help meet sustainability demands and create a lasting, supported network that thrives.
Cisco 8800 routers and commons
Distributed platform for performance.
- Bandwidth: Up to 518 Tbps
- Height: 10/16/21/33 RU
Cisco 8800 line cards
High performance Silicon One-based line cards.
- Bandwidth from 3.7 Tbps to 28.8 Tbps
- Ports 10GbE to 800G
Cisco 8400 Series Routers
Centralized platform with redundancy and interface diversity.
- Bandwidth: 4.8 Tbps
- Height: 4 RU
Cisco 8600 Series Routers
Centralized platform with redundancy and interface diversity.
- Bandwidth: 12.8 Tbps
- Height: 7 RU
Innovations to build your network
Get a modernized Cisco IOS XR network operating system
Simplify operations with the IOS XR operating system. Integrate orchestration and management tools with open APIs.
Cisco DDoS Edge Protection
Keep attack traffic off your network by using your access, aggregation, and peering edge routers as the first line of defense against DDoS attacks with DDoS Edge Protection.
Next-generation silicon design
Cisco Silicon One combines the performance and efficiency of switching with the scale, buffering, programmability, and carrier-class features of routing.
Open networking
Get the benefits of Cisco 8000 Series Routers running Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC).
Flexible deployment
Cisco Capital
Get the Cisco technology you need now with innovative, flexible payment options.
Cisco Customer Experience (CX) services
Solve problems faster, improve efficiency, and reduce your risk of downtime with Cisco Customer Experience services.
Invest in sustainability initiatives
Network and the environment
Transform your network and join Cisco on the journey to a sustainable and inclusive future.
Cisco Refresh
Get certified Cisco remanufactured equipment at significant savings with the same warranties as new.
Cisco Takeback and Reuse Program
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Frequently asked questions
Cisco 8000 Series routers combine Cisco Silicon One Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), IOS® XR7 software, and a new platform design to deliver a breakthrough in high-performance routing without sacrificing capacity. They are highly scalable, deep-buffered, on-chip High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) routers, and are designed to benefit from the real-time analytics and operational insights delivered through Cisco Crosswork Cloud.
Cisco 8000 Series Routers enable users to scale their network using fewer routers and ports in a given location:
- With scalable capacity and software-defined networking, users can converge custom network infrastructures and reduce the costs of building and operating mass-scale networks. Users can transform their network into a multiservice infrastructure where each service gets its own dedicated networking slice with its own service-level agreements.
- By modernizing network automation with closed-loop, intent-based analytics. The analytics are delivered as a cloud service that provides insights without the traditional risk and cost associated with premises-based analytics. With Cisco Crosswork Cloud, users can accelerate new software deployment with automated and cloud-based test environments and gain improved visibility and control of network configurations and events by visualizing, reporting, and protecting the integrity of the network.
- By building network fabric architectures with the Cisco 8000 Series routers, users can benefit from scalability, topological regularity, and operational simplicity. Otherwise traditional approaches to network scaling and resiliency require complex capacity planning and operations.
Benefits of the Cisco 8000 Series Router include:
- Lower your network costs with improved density, scale and efficiency, so you can consolidate routers and reduce the total number of ports and optics.
- Deploy terabits per second of routing capacity with service provider–class functionality and high availability, while reducing per-bandwidth power consumption.
- Simplify your network operations with real-time analytics and insights delivered from Cisco Crosswork Cloud.
- Measure, audit, verify, and enforce the trustworthiness of your critical infrastructure and enhance network security.
For more detailed support information, please visit this Cisco 8000 Series Routers support page.