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What Would You Do With a 92 TBps Router?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hope-they-changed-the-passwords dept.

enodev writes "Cisco announces today it's new 'Carrier routing system' For a price tag starting at $450,000 it's able to route up to 92 Tbps. It also features IOS-XR and the first optical OC-768c/STM-256c optical Interface." update changed TBps to Tbps and suddenly things seemed less cool ;)

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  1. Not IOS though by sphealey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interestingly however it does not use IOS. Which brings up several questions: is Cisco going to start replacing IOS with redesigned-from-scratch (watch out for second system effect!)? Or will they maintain two routing software bases, IOS and whatever the new one is called? Will this be an issue from either a marketing or technical/CCIE perspective?

    sPh

    1. Re: Not IOS though by sphealey · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Not sure I understand your complaint. I read the article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, and also several web articles Monday night and Tuesday morning.

      Given that I had already read Cisco's press releases (which perhaps I should have specified), none of the material you quoted answers any of the questions I posed. I am interested in the community's answers, not Cisco's spin.

      sPh

  2. STM256! by REBloomfield · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "It also features IOS-XR and the first optical OC-768c/STM-256c optical Interface."

    I'm studying Optical transmissions at the moment, and just getting my head around how bytes were interleaved and mapped across AU's, TUG's etc in *one* STM was a stretch enough, (the diagrams are nuts), and now there's an STM2565! That's a bloody lot of multiplexing....

    Bet they're glad they don't use PDH anymore....

  3. Re:what would I do? by SnowDeath · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Finally be able to play a 16 player lan game of quake AND any other game without the other game suffering...

  4. How do you test it? by Boyceterous · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How do they go about testing the full capacity for these? Would a customer ever know if was not quite getting full throughput?

  5. Re:its a shame by Octorian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As much as one could say what you just said, Cisco does have an advantage. They have routers for the high-end, the low-end, and the middle-ground, all with consistency of the interface.

    I've seen competitors with good high-end gear, and sometimes good really-low-end gear (SOHO). But the middle ground, where you'd use something like a 2500 series, 4000 series, or the 2600/3600 is where I wonder if there are any competing products.

    Of course there are those all-in-one four-million-feature boxes (firewall, router, spam filtering, load balancing, IDS, etc.), but sometimes people just want a router to throw in a closet somewhere and grok OSPF between buildings on a campus site.

  6. Alternately by appleLaserWriter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd rent it out to the government, and then use the resulting rent to make payments on:

    (1) a condo in NYC
    (2) a Maserati
    (3) a NetJets account

  7. Juniper T640 node by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hmmm, looking at the T640 node docs this seems to say that the CRS-1 is the same, 1.2Tbs. The Juniper docs don't say how many nodes can go in a matrix tho, could be more/less than 72.

    A bigger issue with someone who would compare them is that all features are available, and have been for over a year, on the T640 node but the CRS-1 most are TBD on a spanking new OS.

    Other points are the T640 node takes half the space and less power; could be an issue if realestate and HVAC are costly...

    It will be interesting to watch Juniper and Cisco snipe at each other in the upcomming CRS-1 vs T640 battle!