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Cisco unveils 322-Terabit-per-second router

By: Greg Meckbach On: 09 Mar 2010 For: Network World Canada Creator

Cisco's CRS 3 router is scheduled to ship before October and is currently in trials with AT&T. The system is designed to support video and cloud computing. Read the reaction from industry analysts and Juniper Networks

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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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Tags: Switches, routers, Cisco, juniper, CRS, video

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Greg Meckbach Greg Meckbach is editor of Network World Canada and has worked for ComputerWorld Canada, Communications & Networking and Computing Canada.

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