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Articles: Cisco launches its fastest ever internet router

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 03:48 AM

Cisco Systems has launched its biggest and fastest internet router, claiming to increase capacity of the technology 100-fold.
Chief executive John Chambers says the new product is the company?s ?biggest jump in innovation since our first router 20 years ago.? The Carrier Routing System (CRS-1) is intended to be used primarily by telcos but may also interest some large multinational companies building high-speed global networks. The router supports up to 92 terabits per second of throughput and 40Gbps internet connectivity. US telco Sprint and Germany?s Deutsche Telekom are among the early testers of the product. Chambers says the CRS-1 is designed to support the increasing convergence of voice, data and video services onto a single IP-based network. ?We are not talking about an evolution, it?s a next generation. We are thinking of a lifecycle of 15, 20, even 25 years,? he said. ?This will drive a whole new set for applications for our customers to provide to consumers and businesses.? Mike Volpi, general manager of Cisco?s routing technology group, says users expect the same levels of quality from new internet services as they have come to expect from telephony. ?To marry the heritage of the telephone network with the internet requires more than an incremental approach. Everything must be rethought,? he said. Volpi says the growth of technologies such as broadband, video on demand and wireless networking is driving a greater need for IP bandwidth. ?To be profitable, service providers are focusing on network and service convergence to reduce total cost of ownership, and adding new, revenue-generating services,? he said. The CRS-1 uses a new version of Cisco?s router operating system, IOS XR, to provide the basis for new functions and the ability to add extra features in the future. ?This kind of scalability has never been built before,? claimed Volpi. Cisco will hope that the new product will help to resist the challenge from rival Juniper Networks in the high-end router market, which was worth $1.2bn last year, according to analyst Yankee Group. Cisco?s share of the market dropped from 62 per cent in 2003 to 59 per cent during the first quarter of this year, according to researcher Dell?Oro Group. In the same period, Juniper?s share grew from 31 per cent to 34 per cent. The CRS-1 will be available in July, with prices starting from $450,000.

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