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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. Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dupe

  2. Re:Surely you could do this more cheaply... by achesloc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How did this idea become so pervasive in the first place? This is like the south park episode with the eat through your ass and defecate through your mouth idea.

  3. HFR! by HFShadow · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "CRS-1, which previously had been code-named HFR for Huge Fast Router, also is the first core router to offer 40 gigabit-per-second optical interfaces."

    Am I the only one who can see the engineers picking a different word for the F in HFR? I assume it used to stand for Huge Fucking Router before the PR guys got their hands on it.