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Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router
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.
If I didn't already read about this yesterday!
Hmmm.
I wonder if they were smart enough to thoroughly check for backdoors, unchangeable passwords, and vulnerabilities before releasing it.
Another huge benefit of Cisco's new router is that you will be able to read Slashdot dupes even faster!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
And doesn't do nearly as much as this thing does.
the ability to cluster the boxes to act as a single router
/. to cluster the dupes to act as a single thread?
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what about copy the feature on
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4. profit!!
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.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
Presuming that Cisco use their own products, this is just about the first link to a video on /. that isn't going to be /.'d within 5 minutes of the article being posted.
The source code is available on the net for free!
What a strange bird is the pelican, his beak can hold more than his belly can.
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?
What the fuck are you gonna see in the video?
<opening scene>
box
<queue the music>
box with blinkinlights
<musical creshendo>
download done box on computer screen!
<screen dissolve>
bigass Cisco logo
</closing scene>
</music fades>
call your local rep or 1-800-givemeyourfuckingbankaccount
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.
A classic breakdown in communication between the hope-they-changed-the-passwords dept. and the like-the-$6-million-man dept.
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
retail starts at $450,000
I have no idea how I'm going to get my wife to go for that, but maybe the 48Gb will impress her...
Do you have ESP?
Watching the video, they proudly proclaim that this product will allow a service provider to do their thing for the next ten years. Yeah. Right. With the way bandwidth-for-the-consumer is going, the ISP's are going to need petabits of routing capacity in ten years, not gigabits.
Does everything include nothing?
...that gets more embellished everytime I hear it. I think I'm gonna go mention to someone "hey, have you heard about Cisco's new 20 billion dollar router?"
FLR
Naw, I'm just noticing that there are a lot more posts about products and services on /. rather than the just the technology surrounding them as of late.
Well actually, assuming every one of these routers made Cisco $450K in pure profit, and given that they have spent $500M in development, they would only need to sell just over 1,100 of these things to cover costs.
Note that the post states that the routers start at $450K and also note that the router itself must cost something to make apart from the R&D costs, so the number of routers that Cisco must sell in order to make a profit is probably somewhere closer to 2,000 or 3,000. Perhaps they do not plan to make a profit initially, believing that the technology that they have now developed will lead to more optical switching products that will make them mega bucks in the future..
Don't forget that the entire worldwide demand for computers was only ever supposed to be a handful..
I'm sure that we will find something to do with multiple 40Gbps routers..
Multi-player Network video Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME deathmatch anyone?
Sorry if this has been mentioned but from zdnet:
CRS-1, which previously had been code-named HFR for Huge Fast Router,
Yes yes, I'm sure that while in dev the 'F' stood for 'Fast'.
I would think the RIAA/MPAA would demand that DRM be built into this device since due to its speed, contributes to piracy.
RIAA/MPAA...... The festering boil on the buttocks of America.
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
> CRS-1, which previously had been code-named HFR for Huge Fast Router,
HFR : Huge Fast Router?
BFG 9000 : Big Funky Gun 9000
transpose with whatever word you feel appropriate. I know what I'm going with.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
...by hooking up a few homemade Intel boxes and putting Linux on them, using the same mythical Slashdot architecture that appears to apply to every other kind of computing problem discussed here?
Future Slashdot Poll: Suppose you had a router that could handle 2300 40Gbps interfaces?
I'd drag it to the top of the cliff with a train of burros and then push it off onto the heads of people who post stupid comments on slashdot as they passed beneath. I bet that fucker weighs well over 150 lb, especially fully loaded.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
CRS-1, that's funny...
Can't Route Shit
Why didn't they think of something better?
heh.
-- Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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.
Yes, Cisco needs money in order to keep coding insecure TCP/IP stacks and patent things invented by other people.
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