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Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router
CWmike writes "Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,' Cisco's John Chambers said while announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, introduced in 2004. It also has more than 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor, Chambers said. The CRS-3 will help the Internet evolve from a messaging to an entertainment and media platform, with video emerging as the 'killer app,' Chambers said. Using a CRS-3, every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. (Or you could pump nearly one Library of Congress per second through the device, or give everyone in San Fransisco a 1Gbps internet connection.) AT&T said it has been using the CRS-3 to test 100Gbit/sec. data links in tests on a commercial fiber route in Florida and Louisiana."
Kidding, but you know someone is going to seriously ask that sometime today.
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If the first poster doesn't have a comment like "Yeah I'm using one of them right now, my internet is blazingly fast", it's a wasted opportunity.
It will cost you an entire Mint of Denver full of money to get the 322Tbit version, and you would have to plug in approximately 3 Hoover Dams of fiber optic connections, each operating at the speed of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, just to get the full effect. Otherwise, it's just about 4.5 US Post Offices worth of throughput/
Of course, some people might be able to use that.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
I'd make a joke about how the internet can now handle the flow of porn through it, but I'm sure that with one of these routers, I've already been beaten to the punch!
In all seriousness, isn't the library of congress always growing? Is its growth rate significant enough that it's a very different size than it was in, say, the 1980s when we heard about hard disks that may someday be able to store an entire library of congress?
You meantion *322Tbit/sec* and *porn* in the same sentence and you still want to see pictures of the *router*?
CONNECT THE DOTS MAN!
Otherwise, it's just about 4.5 US Post Offices worth of throughput/
Of course, some people might be able to use that.
Not even Facebook can work with 1.0 USPS latency, I'm afraid.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
What kind of wire would this router need? Is a single fibre cable enough for this kind of bandwidth? What is the limit of a fibre cable?
Eleven.
You must work for Comcast.
4.5 French Post Offices
In soviet Russia, God creates you!
Stop confusing latency with throughput.
Great line! I think I'll use it in my next movie:
Elfprincess 13: "Is that it?"
Mailman: "Stop confusing latency with throughput"
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Nice rack!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Then it's not too late to warn you: don't go see "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions"!
It's just Silicon.
I'll stick to analog VHS. it has a warmer quality you just cant get with digital.
or give everyone in San Fransisco a 1Gbps internet connection
Or give everyone in San Francisco a 1 Gbps Internet connection! :-)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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