Chambers: “The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate”
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How does that sports adage go? “Hey, it’s not bragging if you can back it up!” Cisco Systems today unveiled its new “lightning-bolt” fast CRS-3 Internet core router, with three (3Xs) times the capacity of its current platform. This new paradigm changing router will be commercially available in the third quarter of the year. See press release > CRS-3
According to Cisco CEO John Chambers “The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate.” At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322T bits per second. That’s roughly three times that of Ciscos’s CRS-1 (introduced in 2004). According to Cisco’s Chambers, the new CRS-3 router has “12 times (12Xs) the capacity of its nearest competitor.”
How does this relate to Apple and iPhone/iPad? Simple … products like Cisco’s CRS-3 will help unclog crowded networks and enable the Internet to deliver a smooth entertainment and media experience, with video the emerging as the “killer app.” Many devices stand to gain from a fast/rich mobile experience, but perhaps none more than Apple’s offerings and platform.
According to Cisco, using CRS-3 technology;
… every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. It could transmit the whole printed contents of the U.S. Library of Congress in one second and every movie ever made in four minutes … This is the heart and brains of the next-generation Internet.”
Cisco has already been field testing their new ultra high speed router. Also on today’s webcast, AT&T announced it has been using the CRS-3 to test 100G bps data links in tests on a commercial fiber route in Florida and Louisiana.
CRS-3 Network Routing System
