Mar

Official pitch for the Cisco CRS-3 Core Router

Cisco prides itself on the Internet will forever change the new CRS-3 core router has a 100Gbps Ethernet interfaces and 322Tbps ability to multi-chassis interconnect.

Cisco service provider marketing director MikeCapuano week 2 after the release of this router, said in an interview, the router will also support Cisco's software to help the data center and cloud computing resources available to more users. The router's power consumption than previous generation CRS-1 router, a decrease of 60%.

Cisco is expected to ship in the third quarter, single-slot 120G system, which is the current CRS-1 router capacity of three.

However, some people suspect that Cisco's claim to have such a high capacity for authenticity, because it never live up to their Cisco CRS-1 has a second 92Tbps capacity commitments. Capuano admitted, the largest CRS-1 multi-chassis deployments only 8 units CRS-1 combination of a 10Tbps system.

Well, as soon operators really need to do per second 322Tbps system?

Capuano said, we are able to meet user requirements in order to speed to continue to expand our multi-chassis deployments scale. We do not want ahead of the needs of users. As long as we beat Tazhun users. In this way, we can over time to provide adequate capacity. From the outset we are such a plan.

Capuano said that all of the CRS-1 router module is upward compatible with the new router. He said, CRS-3 provides the industry's most energy efficient core router. The power consumption per Gigabit Router is 2.75 watts, almost rival Juniper Networks T1600 Routers Gigabit power consumption 4.4 watts per half.

Capuano said that the use of Cisco's QuantumFlowArray chipset, CRS-3 single-ended 100G Ethernet interface supports single-stream 100G transmission. It can transmit a single data stream 100G, 100G and the other two 50G Ethernet interface is used and reused forwarding engine traffic. He said, which makes it more difficult for multi-chassis design.

for the provision of data center and cloud computing services, CRS-3 to support the Cisco service system called the Data Center software. This software can detect the workload between data centers, the traffic patterns change, access to computing and storage resources to determine the best path. It is system software and data center services in another cloud, called a virtual private network) with the attributes in the data centers to establish a secure, MPLS connection, in order to balance the workload.

Capuano said that the emergence of cloud computing is an important feature of next generation Internet. It requires flexibility, savings and service intelligence.