ASR5K-0110G-MM-K9

ASR5K-0110G-MM-K9 is a line card for Cisco ASR 5000 routers: cisco ASR 5000 Line Card ASR5K-0110G-MM-K9.

The three things that decide whether a card like this will work, in order of how often they are got wrong. First the chassis: a card seats mechanically in families it is not supported in, and on some platforms it will be recognised and then refuse to pass traffic. Second the software release, because card support is gated by release and a router held back on an older version will reject hardware that is otherwise perfectly compatible — the symptom looks like a hardware fault and is not one. Third the slot, because high-throughput cards often require specific slots with the fabric bandwidth to feed them, and the chassis will not tell you that until the card is in.

What this platform is for. The ASR 5000 is a mobile packet core platform rather than a general-purpose router, handling the gateway and session functions behind a mobile network. Knowing the family’s intended role is usually more useful than the part number when you are working out whether something fits: a chassis built for one job will do another, but rarely well, and the cost of that mismatch tends to show up as throughput or feature limits rather than as an outright failure.

Three questions worth answering before any router purchase, whatever the model. What the throughput requirement actually is with your feature set enabled, rather than the datasheet figure measured without it. Whether the features you need are licensed as well as present, since on most platforms security and performance are separate entitlements. And how many slots or ports you will need in three years, because adding capacity is cheap and replacing a chassis is not.

One date here is worth knowing, because it is close. Cisco announced end of life for the ASR 5000 and 5500 software series in February 2025, with the last day to order on 31 March 2025 and last day of support on 31 July 2027. The hardware platform pages have not been retired in the same breath, which makes the position a little confusing, but the software horizon is the one that governs: a packet core you cannot get software support for is a problem regardless of what the chassis status says.

If you are running this platform, that date is inside most planning horizons and worth putting in front of whoever owns the migration. If you need licences or cards to carry an existing deployment to that point, we can supply them, and we would rather you bought them knowing the date than not.

Tell us the chassis, the software release it is running and which slot you intend, and we will confirm this card is supported in that combination before you order. If you are buying it as a spare, the part number on the card already fitted is a better guide than the original order paperwork, which on a router that has been maintained for a few years has usually drifted.

Green Code Technologies is a supplier of Cisco, and we supply Huawei and Juniper networking alongside HPE, Dell, Samsung, Netgear, Ubiquiti and Asus. We would rather tell you a part is no longer supported, or that we need to check it, than take an order for something that will not do what you need.