The Cisco ASR 9000 Series 48-port dual-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card delivers high density and high 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 Series aggregation services router. These high-capacity line cards are designed to remove bandwidth bottlenecks in the network that are caused by a large increase in video-on-demand (VoD), IPTV, point-to-point video, Internet video, and cloud services traffic, all with an incredibly low power profile.