Cisco made headlines today announcing a next generation router that
will revolutionize the internet by increasing downloads to unheard of
speeds. The Cisco press release makes the following claims about the
CRS-3 router:
It 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.
Tech Ticker interviewed Kelly Ahuja, Cisco Senior Vice President and General Manager Service Provider Routing Technology Group about the new product this afternoon. He answered all our questions but one: When will consumers be able to take advantage of this new high speed internet? Perhaps that's because that part of the equation is up to our internet service providers. Until they upgrade it might as well all be a dream.
Below is Kara Swisher's take on the new product.
Provided by All Things D, March 9, 2010:
Cisco today announced a new version of its key routing system, which the networking giant said has a dozen times the traffic capacity of competitors and three times as much as the company's previous version.
Cisco's CEO John Chambers said the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System is aimed at the huge growth in video on the Internet, a trend that has also caused slowdowns.
Pankaj Patel, SVP and GM for the service provider business, claimed the system could in just a few minutes deliver all the movies ever made or allow everyone in China to make a video phone call at once.
It had better. The consumption of video online is growing like crazy and a constant bottleneck is likely without some relief.
"Video brings the Internet to life," said Chambers. "You are moving from a messaging platform to a video platform."
Click Here to Read More...
Source: Yahoo! Tech Ticker
Comments |  RSS |
|
