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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. I hope... by Bull999999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope that Cisco didn't patent this as we all know that patents are evil. They should allow others to copy their design freely even though it costed them 500 million dollars.

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