What Would You Do With a 92 TBps Router?

enodev writes "Cisco announces today it's new 'Carrier routing system' For a price tag starting at $450,000 it's able to route up to 92 Tbps. It also features IOS-XR and the first optical OC-768c/STM-256c optical Interface." update changed TBps to Tbps and suddenly things seemed less cool ;)

Not IOS though

[sphealey]

Interestingly however it does not use IOS. Which brings up several questions: is Cisco going to start replacing IOS with redesigned-from-scratch (watch out for second system effect!)? Or will they maintain two routing software bases, IOS and whatever the new one is called? Will this be an issue from either a marketing or technical/CCIE perspective?

sPh

STM256!

[REBloomfield]

"It also features IOS-XR and the first optical OC-768c/STM-256c optical Interface."

I'm studying Optical transmissions at the moment, and just getting my head around how bytes were interleaved and mapped across AU's, TUG's etc in *one* STM was a stretch enough, (the diagrams are nuts), and now there's an STM2565! That's a bloody lot of multiplexing....

Bet they're glad they don't use PDH anymore....

Re:what would I do?

[SnowDeath]

Finally be able to play a 16 player lan game of quake AND any other game without the other game suffering...

How do you test it?

[Boyceterous]

How do they go about testing the full capacity for these? Would a customer ever know if was not quite getting full throughput?

Re:its a shame

[Octorian]

As much as one could say what you just said, Cisco does have an advantage. They have routers for the high-end, the low-end, and the middle-ground, all with consistency of the interface.

I've seen competitors with good high-end gear, and sometimes good really-low-end gear (SOHO). But the middle ground, where you'd use something like a 2500 series, 4000 series, or the 2600/3600 is where I wonder if there are any competing products.

Of course there are those all-in-one four-million-feature boxes (firewall, router, spam filtering, load balancing, IDS, etc.), but sometimes people just want a router to throw in a closet somewhere and grok OSPF between buildings on a campus site.

Re: Not IOS though

[sphealey]

Not sure I understand your complaint. I read the article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, and also several web articles Monday night and Tuesday morning.

Given that I had already read Cisco's press releases (which perhaps I should have specified), none of the material you quoted answers any of the questions I posed. I am interested in the community's answers, not Cisco's spin.

sPh

Alternately

[appleLaserWriter]

I'd rent it out to the government, and then use the resulting rent to make payments on:

(1) a condo in NYC
(2) a Maserati
(3) a NetJets account

Juniper T640 node

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm, looking at the T640 node docs this seems to say that the CRS-1 is the same, 1.2Tbs. The Juniper docs don't say how many nodes can go in a matrix tho, could be more/less than 72.

A bigger issue with someone who would compare them is that all features are available, and have been for over a year, on the T640 node but the CRS-1 most are TBD on a spanking new OS.

Other points are the T640 node takes half the space and less power; could be an issue if realestate and HVAC are costly...

It will be interesting to watch Juniper and Cisco snipe at each other in the upcomming CRS-1 vs T640 battle!