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Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router

Posted by timothy on from the like-the-$6-million-man dept.

Whitecloud writes "After 4 years of development and $500 million in costs, Cisco have a new router: the CRS-1, or Carrier Routing System. Cool features include a 40 gigabit-per-second optical interface, and the ability to cluster the boxes to act as a single router. retail starts at $450,000. Video available here." Update: 05/26 13:55 GMT by T : Sorry; I missed the previous mention of this device.

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  1. This would be interesting.. by Mz6 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I didn't already read about this yesterday!

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    1. Re:This would be interesting.. by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative

      Different numbers, 92Tbps is total fabric capacity when used in a mesh, 40Gbps is what can be done on a single interface. So this thing can route 2300 40Gbps interfaces when used in a cluster, that's more capacity than any organization can use at this time, so there is TONS of room to grow. This sounds like a good thing to use for the core of *gasp* a carrier class network which needs future expandability without downtime.

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    2. Re:This would be interesting.. by sinrakin · · Score: 5, Informative

      Note that Cisco is still using their misleading "times 2" throughput specs. Because they're full duplex they count interface twice, which makes the throughput through the box double what it truly is. I.E. if there's a unidirectional data flow with one MB/sec comes in one interface and gets routed out the other, they count that as 2 MB/sec of throughput. It's really only handling 46Tbps of throughput, and suppports 1152 40Gbps interfaces. Although that's still a lot...

  2. The right video URL by edyavno · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Video URL posted is outdated: that site is designed for the older browsers (Netscape 4.7) and older players used within Cisco.
    Here's the link that points to the site that has better support for Mozilla/Firefox, Linux and Mac.

  3. Re:interesting math by Izmunuti · · Score: 2, Informative

    $450,000 is probably for the smallest configuration that the system is available in, probably one shelf with only a couple of line cards. A full-blown system with 72 shelves, fully stocked with line cards, would probably be 10's of millions. Throw in the special room required for the massive cooling and power supply requirements of these beasts and you're talking real money.

    The margin for these monster routers is actually quite juicy.

    Iz

  4. Re:Offtopic, But Relevant by holt · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's the British way of doing things. They figure that most companies have more than one person working for them, thus the plural.

    Hope that helps.