Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced Carrier Routing System 3, a router that could potentially transfer voice, video and data at up to 322 Terabits per second (Tbps).
This is 12 times faster than the competition, Cisco officials said on a conference call Tuesday morning. Though they did not mention names, Juniper Networks Inc.'s (NYSE:JNPR) TX Matrix Plus has a maximum speed of 25 Tbps.
The CRS 3 announcement came nearly six years after San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco announced CRS 1, which has a maximum throughput of 92 Tbps, if you connect 72 chassis with 16 slots each together.
But most customers will not want to use more than eight chassis, said Luke Ceuppens, Juniper’s vice-president of product marketing.
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