Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Cisco Divulges High Interchange Routers

Cisco is divulging a fresh row of routers designed to hold high insist data loads: up to 100Mbps speeds, able of serving some 1.2 million separate, concurrent video streams.

Cisco claims that its ASR 9000 series routers will be among the primary to enable networks to stream large data loads on a huge scale, enabling IP networks to handle such tasks as streaming HD video.

The router is designed to serve up as the 'edge' aggregation services router for networks which are built approximately the previously-announced CRS-1 routing system. Together, the system is designed to improve both the speed and competence for streaming HD-video and other high-demand data laods.

According to the company, the routers can serve data at speeds of up to 100Mbps and have the capability to serve some 1.2 million separate high-definition video streams at the same time.

"This platform is designed for IP [network] alteration and will be used as the carrier ethernet convey foundation for video and mobility data growth, " said the senior vice president Mr. Pankaj Patel and general manager of Cisco's service provider technology group.

"The Cisco ASR 9000 has been specially optimized to bring video and rich media better than any other platform on the marketplace."

Cisco expects to officially release the new system in early 2009 at a starting price of $80,000.

Author:
Burgis Sethna

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