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Telecommunications Juniper unveils new 1.6Tbps core router to counter Cisco CRS-1
Telecommunications Juniper unveils new 1.6Tbps core router to counter Cisco CRS-1 | Juniper unveils new 1.6Tbps core router to counter Cisco CRS-1 |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 12 June 2007 | |
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Cisco upped the ante significantly in 2004 with the launch of the CRS-1, billed as the culmination of the most ambitious R&D project in the company's 20-year history. The basic unit had a throughput of 1.28Tbps and multiple units could be strung together to give a staggering 92Tbps of throughput. To drive the CRS-1 Cisco developed a totally new operating system, IOS-XR. Unlike Cisco's technology all Juniper's T series routers run the same Junos operating system and Juniper claims that the T1600 will use the same chassis as the T640, enabling a T640 to be upgraded to a T1600 by a simple card swap and OS upgrade, a process it claims takes only 90 minutes. This could prove a strong selling point as the five year old T640 is now, for core router technology, getting fairly long in the tooth. Juniper also claims that the T1600 uses 30 percent less power (and hence cooling) than the CRS-1 and has 2.5 times the capacity of the CRS-1 in the same footprint. In what can hardly have been co-incidence, Cisco announced on the same day (11 June) that it had shipped 900 CRS-1s to 85 customers and it named a new customer, French alternative telco Neuf Cegetel which has over four million residential customers. The most important feature of the T1600 however is its support for Juniper's Session Resource Control (SRC) technology. Juniper against the accepted wisdom that the core of next generation networks should consist of relatively 'dumb' high throughput switches with the intelligence in the edge routers. According to Juniper SRC ,"maximises service control and speeds the deployment of multiplay applications such as video on demand (VoD) and broadcast video, as well as many other solutions including fixed mobile convergence and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS). Kim Perdikou, executive vice president of Juniper's Infrastructure Products Group and general manager, Service Provider Business Team, said: "With the T1600 we will be delivering high performance at double the scale with reliability across the service-aware, next-generation core that accelerates multi-service and revenue opportunities for our customers." |
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