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Google Router Rumors

Posted by timothy on from the google-cars-too-pass-it-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a new rumor that Google is developing its own router. The company won't comment on the story, but it's been in the hardware business for a while and expanded its presence with Android. If Larry Ellison can go halvsies with HP on a server, then Eric Schmidt should certainly be able to make Cisco nervous."

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  1. one more reason... by gandhi_2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to procrastinate on the CCNA test.

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    1. Re:one more reason... by troll8901 · · Score: 4, Funny

      the CCNA really isn't that hard of a cert to get..

      It took me many months to pass my Can't Configure Network Anymore (CCNA) exam, you insensitive clod!

      I'm planning to take Can't Control Network Protocols (CCNP) at age 50, and
      Can't Configure It Effectively (CCIE) at age 75.

      See definitions.

  2. All that I need now is google underwear! by FictionPimp · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I need now is google underwear that twitters for me with real time gps tracking so I know where I've been.

    1. Re:All that I need now is google underwear! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do you really want to wear underwear that's in perpetual beta? Ouch!

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    2. Re:All that I need now is google underwear! by Nethead · · Score: 4, Funny

      I loved getting the big yellow Google box at my last job. And it came with a black Google t-shirt too! I had one job setting up a NOC for sextracker.com back in the day. I ordered 10,000ft of Cat5 in hot pink. Made it easy to find my stuff in the colo.

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    3. Re:All that I need now is google underwear! by KUHurdler · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...and wtf does hassellhoff have to do with one?

      serverbay watch

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  3. Actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I bet these guys are pretty are pretty nervous too.

  4. I can see it now... by Ohio+Calvinist · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can see it now...

    Z:\>ping 192.168.1.20

    Pinging 192.168.1.200 with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 10.2.1.254: Destination host unreachable. Did you mean 192.168.1.2?
    ^C

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    1. Re:I can see it now... by MartinSchou · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd be rather surprised if "ping 192.168.1.20" resulted in trying to ping 192.168.1.200. Might want to check your network settings or something.

    2. Re:I can see it now... by Tetsujin · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd be rather surprised if "ping 192.168.1.20" resulted in trying to ping 192.168.1.200. Might want to check your network settings or something.

      That was the auto-complete feature. :D

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  5. No Thanks. by sexconker · · Score: 5, Funny

    My router works fine, and I don't have Google stealing all of my LAN packets and serving me ads.

    A fucking grouter had better make me warm delicious waffles if they want me to buy it. Even then, I'd only use it to make waffles.

    And now I'm off to amazon to look for a waffle maker.

  6. Re:In My Opinion, Cisco Should Be Worried by StaticEngine · · Score: 5, Funny

    although behind the NSA as no one's ever sure about those guys

    The real secret of the NSA is that they've got a zombie Alan Turing kept functioning on a combination of nutrient bath and Jeff Stryker porn.

  7. How fucking UGLY would that be? by SrWebDeveloper · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have this mental image of a case with wide blue, red, yellow, blue, green then red stripes as well as similarly colored network cables, ethernet jacks, lights and buttons....

    BARF!!!

    Oh, I'm sure it'll work great - but hide that bitch in the rear of your rack space, that's for sure.

  8. Re:In My Opinion, Cisco Should Be Worried by LWATCDR · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are using OpenMPI with a custom transport over Gig10e hardware. For their switching they have basically gone to a stacked of switching fabrics. It is pretty much a 3D fabric they call a bolt.
    Of course I am making all of this up but dang it sounds good :)

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  9. Re:In My Opinion, Cisco Should Be Worried by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I suppose the "Google Router", if it exists, will put an end to Juniper and Cisco in the same way as Bigtable does for Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.: it doesn't because the technology is so fundamental for Google's success that they simply don't share it.

    Reading TFA, It is basically saying that the loss of Google alone as a customer would doom Juniper. It doesn't matter if Google shares its technology or not as far as Juniper is concerned.

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  10. Re:In My Opinion, Cisco Should Be Worried by alta · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one welcome my new free, yet perpetually in beta router.

    All you have to do is let them monitor all of the traffic that goes through them so they can data mine it for useful but anonymous markeing information.

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  11. Old news - Google broadband in 2007 by SL+Baur · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is old news and was announced almost two years ago http://www.google.com/tisp/

  12. Re:Not in "hardware business," won't sell routers by fucket · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're actually in the t-shirt business, those servers were just throw-ins.