Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router 281
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."
Will it run DDWRT or Tomato? (Score:5, Funny)
Kidding, but you know someone is going to seriously ask that sometime today.
Library of Congresses per second (Score:5, Funny)
Awesome router (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:"Library of Congresses"? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Will it run DDWRT or Tomato? (Score:5, Funny)
Will It Blend?
Fast, fast, fast! (Score:4, Funny)
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!
Is it a constant? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Library of Congresses per second (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Geek Porn (Score:5, Funny)
You meantion *322Tbit/sec* and *porn* in the same sentence and you still want to see pictures of the *router*?
CONNECT THE DOTS MAN!
Re:"Library of Congresses"? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Cables? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:The question on everyone's mind (Score:1, Funny)
You must work for Comcast.
Re:"Library of Congresses"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Library of Congresses"? (Score:5, Funny)
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"
Re:Geek Porn (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Will it run DDWRT or Tomato? (Score:3, Funny)
Yep, because idiots think their linux nat appliances are routers just because they use them in an 'office', and those of us who've worked in telecom laugh at them decisively.
Yep, and ACs who cannot use English properly like to use big words incorrectly, and those of us who know what "decisively" means laugh at them derisively.
Re:Internet and Internet 2 is smoke in the US of A (Score:5, Funny)
Then it's not too late to warn you: don't go see "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions"!
Re:Geek Porn (Score:2, Funny)
It's just Silicon.
Re:Will it run DDWRT or Tomato? (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, and ACs who cannot use English properly like to use big words incorrectly, and those of us who know what "decisively" means laugh at them derisively.
Your derisive laughter has such finality in this argument, one could say you laughed "decisively."
Re:Is it a constant? (Score:5, Funny)
First of all, +5 Funny to a post that's first 3 words were "In all seriousness"
Second, Hard drives were getting close to being able to store a Library of Congress, but they keep storing those same hard drives in the Library of Congress.
Re:"Library of Congresses"? (Score:5, Funny)
I'll stick to analog VHS. it has a warmer quality you just cant get with digital.
Imagine, too... (Score:3, Funny)
or give everyone in San Fransisco a 1Gbps internet connection
Or give everyone in San Francisco a 1 Gbps Internet connection! :-)