Cisco to launch 120Gbps router?
Wednesday, 03 February 2010, 17:50 IST
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Bangalore: Cisco may come up with a new carrier core router to outpace Juniper's T1600. But it is rumoured that issues with the supporting application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design may delay the Cisco's telco router rollout by up to a year, reports The Register. The new MSC120 Cisco router will become heir to Carrier Router System (CRS-1) introduced in 2004, according to a bulletin issued from Oppenheimer analyst Ittai Kidron. It will sport speeds of 120Gb/s per slot, and it's intended to one-up Juniper's 100Gb/s router interface card for the T1600 Core Router. He reckons that the MSC120 will support 12 to 24 slots with a total throughput exceeding 2Tb/s. Juniper claims the T1600, in conjunction with its JCS1200 control system, provides transport scale up to 25 Tb/s. The analyst claims that Cisco's plans are to announce the MSC120 over the next month, but he says the company recently uncovered design faults with its three-chipset ASIC switching fabric architecture that threaten to delay those plans. "We believe Cisco has recently discovered issues with the supporting ASIC design, which could require a material redesign of the platform," Kidron said. "This could delay product availability until mid-2011."

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