The Cisco ASR 9000 series 5th Generation 400 Gigabit Ethernet Multi-Rate Line Card delivers industry-leading high density, with Gigabit Ethernet ports, to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 series Aggregation Services Router. This Multi-Rate line card is 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. The physical interfaces support QSFP28, SFP28, QSFP+, SFP+ optics, giving customers the flexibility to mix and match interface types on the same line card.