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Cisco says new monster CRS-3 router paves way for more powerful Internet
Cisco announced a major upgrade to its Internet core router, which is designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and support growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond.
Cisco claims its CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) has 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing systems. It took 3 years to develop, Cisco CEO John Chambers said (the upgrade has been expected).
The Cisco CRS-3 triples the capacity of its predecessor, the CRS-1 with up to 322 Terabits per second, which enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes, Cisco says.
The Cisco CRS-3 is also designed to enable investment protection for the nearly 5,000 Cisco CRS-1 devices deployed worldwide.
Cisco's cumulative investment in the Cisco CRS family is $1.6 billion.
AT&T recently tested the Cisco CRS-3 in a successful field trial of a 100-Gigabit backbone network, which took place on AT&T's live network between New Orleans and Miami.
The Cisco CRS-3 is currently in field trials, and its pricing starts at $90,000