Cisco announces foundation for next-generation internet

[lazarus]

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_030910.html

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 9, 2010 – Cisco today announced a major advancement in Internet networking - the Cisco® CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) - designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond.

With more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, the Cisco CRS-3 is designed to transform the broadband communication and entertainment industry by accelerating the delivery of compelling new experiences for consumers, new revenue opportunities for service providers, and new ways to collaborate in the workplace.

They had previously announced some sort of revolutionary breakthrough. I don't know enough about the tubes to tell if this is a really big deal or not.

On edit, I read more of the article, and this does sound kinda cool.

The Cisco CRS-3 triples the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, 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.

[damyank913]

1. Yeah they'll probably install coin slots on your modem.

[laconicsax]

2. You mean like this?

[damyank913]

5. Well, as long as the coin slots look like that....

Better start saving my quarters.

[gtar100]

3. The goal - real time holographic projections for true virtual meetings

and on-line collaboration. That's the kind of thing that needs to be supported with the increasing bandwidth.

[gtar100]

4. you know, we already have wickedly fast long-haul transport systems in place now.

The problem is going from a main telecom site to the home or office. That's where all the speed dies. They can build up the back end all they want - and they should - but if they want to make this revolutionary and not just something for the uber-rich, then that last mile is what needs to be transformed.

But this is still pretty awesome - 322 Tbs is not to be sneezed at.

Of course, we could download the entire Library of Congress in no time at all at that speed but the real feat is to actually read it!