CRS-3

Arjan van der Oest arjan.van.der.oest at worldmax.nl
Wed Mar 10 06:58:47 UTC 2010


Cisco did 100GE before, based upon the 802.3ba: http://www.10gea.org/100-ge-router-cisco-comcast.htm

The 'wow' factor in this is news might be that these new linecards are nonblocking and will eventually support the final standard without hardware changes.

Arjan

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patrick at ianai.net]
Sent: Tue 3/9/2010 11:02 PM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: CRS-3
 
On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Jake Khuon wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:29 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 
>> The only "wow" here is "wow, why did cisco hype how far behind they
>> are?"
> 
> Because in some organisations, the only vendor that matters is Cisco.

Then why bother hyping at all?

Anyone who needs even a significant fraction of 322 Tbps is not going to ignore competitors.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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