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What Would You Do With a 92 TBps Router?
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 ;)
I begins with 'p' and ends with 'r0n'.
"Juniper Networks has individual routers that are at least as fast, but the company cannot combine as many routers to ultimately produce the same speeds, according to Chris Nicoll, a telecommunications industry analyst with Current Analysis, a research firm."
and more....
"The new router design is the first developed by Cisco that allows several routers to be connected, according to the company. A single router would be able to transmit data at 1.2 terabits a second. But as many as 72 routers can be hooked together to send data at 92 terabits a second, far faster than any router sold now. In telecommunications, data transfer is usually measured in bits per second. A terabit is one trillion bits. "
Hmmm.
Route traffic.
Always value the individual over the system. --Bruce Lee "I don't need a Sig - I have a custom 191" - me
Horny bastard: Porn. Lots of porn.
Script kiddie: OMG I CAN DOS PPL!!!!!!!111111111oneone
Pirate: Warez, and other assorted treasures.
CowboyNeal: Hey, we can use it to host slashdot!
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...because my home network equipment only has 100Mbps adapters, and I can't afford to upgrade them all.
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Sell it for $450,000. Then get a house.
Hang it off the back of my 56k modem, what do you think I'm gonna do with it? Sheesh!
"What Would You Do With a 92 TBps Router?"
Pinky : "Gee, Brain what do you want to do tonight?"
Brain : "The same thing we do every night Pinky. Try to take over the world!"
(Karma = auto -1)
Yeah, is there any other thing to do with that much bandwidth? You could get porn at such high resolution you can see the ingrown hairs on the porn "actress'" butt.
"My bunghole itches. Is it because I am a girl?"
pump out a lot of spam...
Failing that with enough filespace it could server an awful lot of mp3/ogg/aac
CJC
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
Make a CD Case?
actually, I just hook it up in my apartment and not tell anyone- then the next lan party I host not get complaints that my network is too slow.
(bastards.)
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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....
Now you guys please be careful not to /. Cisco :)
I will work to elevate you, just enough to bring you down
... I'd sell it and buy an Aston Martin. I'm not THAT much of a geek -- big routers just don't attract the babes the way I'd like.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
It's a small point, but the article calls it 92 Tbps, not 92 TBps. Which means its really 19 terabytes per second, which works out to some ungodly number of libraries of congress per fortnight. Either way, it's a lot.
Cisco announces today it's new 'Carrier routing system'
It's "its," not "it's!" Sometimes I think the grammar behind this is starting to devolve... or at least I'm having difficulty parsing it now.
Terabits/sec (Tbps), not Terabytes/sec (TBps).
I'm not surprised some moron doesn't know his units, especially when it's mentioned in the article and placed in its proper notation. I'm surprised the EDITORS refuse to change it to be factual.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
The first thing I'd do is set it up for use with my Cable Modem connection.
Immediately, I'd notice it wouldn't work.
Then I'd call up my technical support for the cable service, and tell them I couldn't connect.
They would have me unplug the modem from the "PC", shut down my computer, and reboot it. It wouldn't work.
Then they'd have me cycle the cable modem.
Then they'd ask me if I had a router. I would say "Yeah, I do bitches! I got me a Cisco 92TBps. Cost me almost a half-mil, but it's sooo cool!"
Then they'd tell me it was unsupported, to which I'd respond I would wedge that pizza box sideways up their asses.
THE END
I would pretend there were enough other people out there with high speeds to make this even remotely useful.
Who says you can't get performance from a microkernel?
This was the product whose internal development code name was HFR (Huge Fscking Router).
Sweet!
p.s.
Note the other key word "self-healing".
I would...
for the first time ever...
*gasps*
attempt to slashdot slashdot.
TCP/IP over OpenGL over DRM?
And why do we need to route this much traffic? Because over 60% of all email is spam. Because unpatched systems are getting trojans, which in turn are contacting their makers.
We all get along together like tornadoes and trailer parks.
90% of posts will be 1.1 standard deviations away from one of the following:
... 4. PROFIT!!!"
0. "fist pr0st!!!!!111~"
1. "92TBps of pr0n!!!"
2. "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!"
3. "I for one welcome our OC-768c/STM-256/optical Interface overlords!"
4. "1. OC-768c 2. STM-256 3.
5. "If IOS is based on unix, does that mean Cisco will have to pay SCO for licenses?"
6. "I use BNC you insensitive clod!"
7. "emacs does this
I would download the Library of Congress...
and then porn.
On a more serious note, I would very much like to setup my own "Internet Node". No need for me to pay for sattelite internet any more, the internet comes to me!
Physics makes the world go 'round.
What good does the router do with nothing to connect too..
They dont work in a vacuum.
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How do they go about testing the full capacity for these? Would a customer ever know if was not quite getting full throughput?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
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...route all traffic to www.slashdot.org and slash the dot.
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
I had a silly asignment for a class of mine: look up and a router, tell me what it can do, and then compare/contrast the router you picked with one another classmate picked.
:P)
Being the sadistic mothrefucker that I am, I hopped over to cisco's site at about 1am and saw this beast listed "Carrier Router System". I didn't recognize it as a "normal" Cisco offering, and 92Tb/s is really fucking fast. Though, beyond that, I didn't think anything of it. Cisco is just expected to have the fastest stuff out there, right? And to think, were I more up on my Cisco products, I could've submitted this to the front page. (And they could have denied me access, and posted someone else's submission 12 hours later, as tends to be the case around here
As it sands, those sorry sons-of-bitches in my IT200 networking course are going to hate me. They likely all picked SOHO equipment to compare/contrast and won't know up from down when it comes to comparing/contrasting. "What's 'Tbps' mean?" they'll ask.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
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.
It's not running IOS.
10. Tell all my mates. Note the names of the one or two who don't laugh at me, and remember to send them, and only them, Xmas cards this year
9. Get a really really fast sniffer, so I can make sure there's no porn traffic going through my router
8. Write out 92Tb as a decimal number, just because I know it'll look really impressive
7. Use it to pick up chicks. Revert to old story about being in astronaut training program, as it would be just as successful and slightly less geeky
6. It's optical, right? See what happens when I cross the beams...
5. Sleep with it under my bed. Less painful than a vasectomy, and probably just as effective
4. Paint go-fast stripes on it, put a "Turbo" sticker on it, then track down and razz anyone who spent $450k on the "old, non-turbo version" by mistake
3. Use it to beat the living daylights out of everyone associated with "Big Brother". I really really hate that show
2. Advertise it on eBay with a photo, no reserve, and a description of "some sort of computer network thingy"
1. Buy 2 and see if they'll reproduce in captivity
Put some instant coffee inside to see if I could go back in time....
conf t
int pos 2/0
*giggle*
shut
*cackle*
no shut
*snort*
shut
*ROFL*
no shut
"Sir, I can't see anything wrong with the network. It must (shut) be a problem (no shut) with your equipment.
Sell it and pay off my mortgage.
Hook a modem up to it and start surfing!
-- I am. Therefore, I think!
anywhere near your computer plan to surf naked.
Considering the amount of porn you could amass with this thing, I'd say it's a pretty likely bet that the user WOULD be naked. Clothing just gets in the way.
Learn something new.
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More music, fewer hits
Can it make Cisco website faster?
In other news, MS says such routers need to be installed in every home to allow the downloading of Longhorn patches.
...would be ppl with lists of the other 90%.
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>>Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky? /. before we plot our schemes?
>>I think so Brain, but how can we afford to get a router that can do 92 Tb/s?
>>Pinky, what did I tell you about reading
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
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
Keep my system up to date with windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
QNX Powers Universal Media Gateway for Next-Generation Digital Video Networks
QNX Software Systems today announced that the QNX® Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) will be shipping as part of the Cisco uMG9850 QAM Module, a new quadrature amplitude modulation product designed to let cable operators use Gigabit Ethernet to deliver video-on-demand and other multimedia services efficiently and cost-effectively to TV set-top receivers.
'Little OS that could' just might
"In a deal signed two years ago, Cisco (csco) chose QNX as its preferred real-time OS vendor as part of Cisco's 'ongoing efforts to increase the reliability and availability of data-voice-video networks.' Since then, not much seems to have materialized from the partnership."
Cisco's HFR is here
"The IOS-XR operating system kernel was acquired from QNX Software Systems, a small Canadian developer of realtime operating system code to companies in the automotive, communications, defense, industrial automation and medical device markets. Cisco already ships QNX operating system code in its uMG9850 QAM digital video module for the Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet switch."
Cisco Unveils the HFR
" The transition is analagous to Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - message board) moving from DOS-based operating systems to Windows NT, says analyst Stephen Kamman of CIBC World Markets.
Just as NT did, IOS XR could begin trickling down to lower-level systems, eventually permeating Cisco's entire portfolio, including edge and enterprise boxes. "The question is how quickly they can push that software through the product line," Kamman says."
"The software is based on a kernel licensed from QNX Software Systems, but tailored for the job. 'We have made some pretty substantial modifications to [the QNX code] that are Cisco proprietary,' Volpi says."
[Disclaimer: This is a very happy QNX Employee.]
Has Cisco installed the same backdoor as in previous version of their software?
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This is a just a bid for PR.
Juniper's router interconnect product is being announced shortly, and will allow users to interconnect T640s already installed in their network - no forklift upgrade. Cisco just wants to get something in the news before it rolls out, so that they don't seem quite so much the technological also-rans that they are, in this space.
Considering the number of delays this box's development has undergone, one can only imagine how many exciting 'Cisco features' have been left in to make this rush to market possible.
Us it to route TCP/IP Over Bongos