Cisco ASR 9000 12-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line cards deliver high density and line-rate 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 Series aggregation services router. These high-capacity line cards provide carrier-class reliability and 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. A single 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) port can now replace large 10 Gigabit Ethernet link aggregation bundles to simplify network operations. These 12-port 100 Gigabit line cards use 100G Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) optics.