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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."
I'm sure BrainSlayer will at least ask you to register for the pay version of DD-WRT. :)
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Between terrible last mile infrastructure and ISP throttling I can't help but sarcastically comment big freaking deal.
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Strangely, at $90,000 a pop, this strikes me as rather cheap. I wonder if that's a "rate limited" model so that you have to pay big bux more in order to get the full capacity?
You wish. For $90K you probably get an empty chassis... the smallest available empty chassis, that is.
Ok, 322Tbit/sec is cool and all, but where is the geek porn of it? Images, technical details and specifications? Otherwise it is vaporware to me.
I take it that $90K is for an empty shell and you must buy plug-in modules to actually accomplish anything.
So, I've been waiting for something better than 150 kB/s service for years, despite the promises by AT&T and Verizon that they're "rolling out" fiber to the home. Not my home.
When can I finally stream in real time at least one channel of video content that's not so compressed that it's unwatchable? At a subscription rate of under $40/month? When that happens, I'll be impressed.
However, I'm fearing that USians have been living under monopoly conditions of artificial bandwidth scarcity for so long that we're going to let the AT&Ts and Verizons charge us an arm and a leg for this kind of service in the near term.
I can see the fnords!
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Moore's law is about transistor density, not computing power.
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Library of Congress is a moving target. What would pass today, won't in 2020.
That said, I'm going with Video Calls per Chinese Person too. It's just much funnier. :)
Moore's law (which doesn't work in every way, but it certainly works for the computing processors in this thing) would suggest that this thing has a lot more CPU power than the CRS-1. (In six years we'd expect somewhere between 8 and 32 times the oomph.) And yet they only encumbered it with three times the bandwidth.
Moore's law applies to the number of transistors on an integrated circuit and has absolutely nothing to do with bandwidth. Chip throughput is much more a function of the chip architecture than the number of transistors on chip. Even if chip throughput was somehow correlated to Moore's law, there are still unrelated inefficiencies in the physical layer that are very complex and difficult to overcome.
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.)
Or, could exceed their monthly bandwidth "cap" in 155 microseconds. So, what good is it?
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when I first read your comment I thought you said you would have to "pay for the bug fix" to get full capacity, even after re-reading I think my initial parsing still makes sense...
Yeah, just like us swedes, man we were sure ravaged in WW2...</sarcasm>
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I think seeing a big impressive machine is always cool. It’s the same reason I like hearing about the newest supercomputer.
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Yeah, and I'm probably not going to space any time soon but news from NASA is clearly news for nerds.
It doesn't have to be immediately relevant or impact me directly to be worthy of being on slashdot. It just has to be interesting, as defined by nerdy interests. This qualifies for many of us.
Well, that's $347 million out of a total of $12,731 million.
I also took the liberty to look up the GDP of Sweden in the late 1940s and early 1950s as well as the exchange SEK to USD exchange rate back in those days. Since you mentioned 1950 we'll go with that year. In 1950 Sweden received $260,000,000 through the Marshall plan. That same year the Swedish GDP was SEK 39,426,346,000 which was worth about $7,611,000,000 at the time. The swedish GDP for the years prior to and after 1950 was similar (although it was steadily growing) and somehow I doubt that the $48,000,000 Sweden received in 1949 was all that important (the GDP was roughly SEK 31,000,000,000 that year).
But hey, if it makes you feel good to think that a little "please don't become commies" bribe you gave us in the 1940s is what made it possible for us to have a decent telecommunications infrastructure then go right ahead.
/Mikael
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