Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers with MACSEC

Certificate

Module description

The ASR 1000 Routers accelerate services by offering performance and resiliency with optimized, intelligent services; establishing a benchmark for price-to-performance offerings in the enterprise routing, service provider edge, and broadband aggregation segments; facilitating significant network innovations in areas such as secure WAN aggregation, managed customer-premises-equipment services, and service provider edge services, and reducing operating expenses and capital expenditures by facilitating managed or hosted services over identical architectures and operating environments.

Security level exceptions

• Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
• Design Assurance: Level 3
• Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms

Allowed algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (CVL Certs. #1257, #1258 and #C462, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 150 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (CVL Certs. #1257, #1258 and #C462, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 128 or 192 bits of encryption strength); NDRNG; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 or 128 bits of encryption strength)

Tested configurations

• N/A

Validation history

Status timeline

As observed by this tracker's snapshots. NIST publishes no dates for list moves; observation began 2026-08-21, so earlier changes carry no date.

• 2026-08-21: first observed by this tracker, status historical
• Validation dates on record: 2020-12-18, 2021-06-11

Source documents

• NIST certificate page
• Security policy (PDF)
• Consolidated certificate (PDF)