Cisco Outlines Silicon, Software Roadmap For Next Generation Internet (zdnet.com) 21
An anonymous reader writes: Cisco on Wednesday outlined new details behind its strategy to build next-generation internet technology. As a set up for what it dubs its 'Internet for the Future' strategy, the networking giant announced a multi-year plan for building and investing in 5G internet technology, including silicon, optics and software. On the silicon side, Cisco announced Silicon One, a new switching and routing applications specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the 5G internet era. The programmable networking chip is designed to provide significant improvements to performance, bandwidth, power efficiency, scalability and flexibility, according to Cisco. Cisco said the first first generation of the chip, Q100, surpassed the 10 Tbps routing milestone for network bandwidth.
In addition to the silicon, Cisco also outlined its focus on the optics space. As port rates increase from 100G to 400G, optics become a larger portion of the cost to build and operate internet infrastructure. To account for that, Cisco said its qualification program tests its optics and non-Cisco optics to comply with industry standards, and invests organically to make sure that its router and switch ports rates continue to increase. Cisco also announced plans to offer flexible consumption models for Silicon One that were first established with its optics portfolio, followed by the disaggregation of the Cisco IOS XR7 software. The Silicon One architecture will integrate into its new 8000 series carrier class routers, which is powered by Cisco's new IOS XR7 operating system. The OS will provide faster download speeds and security improvements, Cisco said.
According to the report, Cisco is currently working with Comcast and NTT Communications on ongoing deployments and trials of the 8000 series.
In addition to the silicon, Cisco also outlined its focus on the optics space. As port rates increase from 100G to 400G, optics become a larger portion of the cost to build and operate internet infrastructure. To account for that, Cisco said its qualification program tests its optics and non-Cisco optics to comply with industry standards, and invests organically to make sure that its router and switch ports rates continue to increase. Cisco also announced plans to offer flexible consumption models for Silicon One that were first established with its optics portfolio, followed by the disaggregation of the Cisco IOS XR7 software. The Silicon One architecture will integrate into its new 8000 series carrier class routers, which is powered by Cisco's new IOS XR7 operating system. The OS will provide faster download speeds and security improvements, Cisco said.
According to the report, Cisco is currently working with Comcast and NTT Communications on ongoing deployments and trials of the 8000 series.
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I think it was closer to a half billion, and somewhat south of that. Still, when the U.S. President can use U.S. taxpayer money to encourage a foreign power to manufacture dirt on a political opponent, and the President's party fails to acknowledge anything wrong with that, his crimes will be only bigger next time around.
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C'mon, get it straight, its Moscow Mitch and Putin's Poodle.
All available for “subscriptions” for (Score:3)
multiple source ? (Score:2)
so what happened to their much publicized multiple sources of silicon ?
the maths of their "subscription" does not add up...
Color me confused (Score:2, Insightful)
Now we see Cisco, who makes all the shit the Chinese chips will need to talk to in order to 5G, are advertising their 5G capabilities. Last time I checked Cisco didn't make radios. Instead, they make the stuff 5G radios need to talk to in order to be
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You're defining "our" wrong....from .gov's point of view "our" is the swamp and deep state, not the mere citizens. They don't want competition in farming the plebes from the Chinese (or anyone not the un-elected surveillance state or the "somewhat American corporate interests who buy anti-competition"). Once you realize that, it all falls into place. Should be obvious, I guess they didn't underestimate the intelligence of the public after all...
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Why should we trust Cisco or any other American company when we know they enable the exact behaviour for the USA that they want us to worry about Huawei enabling for China? Seriously?
Mind blowing technology (Score:5, Interesting)
When I retired a couple years ago, 40Gb optics were the fastest I worked with, and I thought that was utterly amazing - a laser pulsing 40 billion times a second down a strand of glass fiber (or even multiples of that with WDM), and a receiver(s) at the other end going yup, got it.
400 Gb/s is 10 times as mind blowing.
Re:Mind blowing technology (Score:5, Interesting)
It is crazy when you think about it...
The speed of light / 40 billion is about 7.5 millimeters.
Think of all the bits "in flight" on a long stretch of cable!
Bunches of photons in multiple wavelengths... Just the tiniest blips...
At my former job, I had an Agilent Ddigital storage oscilloscope with 256 Megabytes of acquisition memory. I used it for CAN Bus analysis, it was very cool to watch collisions, and bus arbitration in real time.
It also had an extensive Ethernet validation toolset in it as well. When gigabit Ethernet came out, we set up a long network around and around my lab, and connected the scope to various points along the wire.
It was really cool to see how it all worked, as it was working.
It was also really easy to see how important landing the cables properly in the jacks was!
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ISP NOC here. It's not. There are four strands, 10G each. WDM modules are just colors of that. Bottom line is that it's been smooth progress for the most part. I'm behind a linux PC router that pulls 90G/s masquerade for 10k ftth users during peak (Mellanox 100G NIC , 64c EPYC2). 5 years back, same box was 10G. Just run of the mill european metro using the top end in low cost beowulf cluster solutions. ASIC silicon can do adequately more - perhaps 2-3 years into the future
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Yup, my bad you are correct. Our 40Gb stuff was only in the datacenter and had cable integrated with the SFPs as opposed to the 10Gb stuff with LC connectors.
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Where is the kind of end of "Moore's Law" for comms equipment in terms of raw signaling?
My assumption is that even 100G ethernet over fiber is still a single light pulse, and not some kind of multi-spectrum/variable wave multiplexing, at least for short-haul purposes.
Is there an upper limit on this kind of signaling before DWDM or other multiplexing schemes need to be implement to make the next leap in short-haul bandwidth?
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Secure Communications (Score:1)
Does Cisco do ankle jewelry now? Thats the Internet future I want to see.
Judging from the other comments, this news was about as inspiring as asking all of the doctors who overprescribed opiods what the future of healthcare is. Guilt free profits... Of course....
software roadmap (Score:2)
does it include removing all backdoors and default admin pwd's?