Cisco unveiled CRS-3, its new router, in a high-profile March 9 announcement. In a Webcast, Cisco executives suggested that the increasing use of online video and other high-bandwidth tools and applications would eventually make the routers 322-terabit capacity a necessary part of IT infrastructure. AT T recently conducted a 100-gigabit test of the CRS-3 technology and claims it works as expected. The CRS-3 offers three times the capacity of Cisco’s CRS-1, released in 2004, which laid the foundation for much of Cisco’s network-as-platform strategy.
– Cisco unveiled a new router, the CRS-3, that it claimed in
the ramp-up to the March 9 announcement would quot;forever change the Internet. quot;
Whether or not that bold prophecy comes to fruition, the CRS-3 is nonetheless
capable of handling enormous amounts of online traffic, with a Cisco exec…