Cisco has announced a new powerful router, CRS-3, which will be available in a few months for prices beginning at $90,000, and has 12 times the traffic capacity of its nearest competing system. The implication now is that Cisco is betting on the CRS-3 as its entry in the race to roll out 100G networks, reports Information Week.
Pankaj Patel, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Service Provider Business, predicted that the CRS-3 will become the company's flagship router of the future and will form the foundation of intelligent and advanced broadband networks in the Internet.
The presentation by the company featured an appearance by AT&T's Keith Cambron, who talked about the carrier's successful 100G field trial between Florida and Louisiana as a harbinger of better networking things to come. Cambron, who is president and CEO of AT&T Labs, noted that AT&T's video traffic is growing at a rate of 80 percent a year.
AT&T has been under pressure to speed up its wireless network, because its exclusive arrangement with Apple to provide the iPhone has pressured AT&T's mobile network while the carrier's landline broadband struggles to keep up with growing traffic.
Praising Cisco's CRS-3, Cambron said, "We are entering the next stage of global communications and entertainment services and applications, which requires a new set of advanced Internet networking technologies. AT&T's network handled 40 percent more traffic in 2009 than it did in the previous year and we continue to see this growth in 2010."
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