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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. Backdoors... by mobiux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if they were smart enough to thoroughly check for backdoors, unchangeable passwords, and vulnerabilities before releasing it.

  2. Gilette's Mach 3 cost $1 billion to develop... by vudufixit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And doesn't do nearly as much as this thing does.

    1. Re:Gilette's Mach 3 cost $1 billion to develop... by Ianoo · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yeah right. Is there really a world market for 1000 of these devices, or are Cisco expecting a loss on the router and have just produced it to keep their big clients happy?

  3. interesting math by pedantic+bore · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If they spent 500M on this, and they sell for 450T, and they have a 10% profit margin (unlikely, but it's a round number) then they'd need to sell +10,000 of these boxes to make a profit. Can we really use 10,000 of these things? That's a whole heck of a lot of throughput...

    I was working at BBN when they built the worlds first gigabit router, circa 1990. At the time, they claimed that they could route the entire internet through one of their boxes. It's amazing how far we've come.

    Oh, and yes, this whole story is redundant. We did this all yesterday.

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  4. Switches by superpulpsicle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First Cisco revealed its revolutionary Fibre channel switch (MDS series) which so far has a lukewarm reception, since it's so radically different. Now Cisco will reveal this million dollar router.

    Is it me or is Cisco trying to jump itself back into late markets with huge marketing headliners?