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VIRTUALISATION Cisco riding high on a flood of terabytes
VIRTUALISATION Cisco riding high on a flood of terabytes | Cisco riding high on a flood of terabytes |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 03 April 2008 | |
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Cisco pointed out that a single fully configured CRS-1 pumping through 92Tbps would be able to support a 850kbps broadband connection to every household in the USA, or handle three billion telephone calls per second. Cisco hasn't said if it has yet sold a fully configured CRS-1 (very unlikely) but it has just announced total sales of 1800 units, and significantly that half this total was sold in just the last nine months, to the end or March 2008. It's flagged the driver of this growth as being the increase in video traffic on the web, quoting Michael Howard, principal analyst at Infonetics Research, saying: "Exponential traffic growth on the Internet - driven largely by increased deployment of video services - is causing more and more providers to rethink their core architectures...as business and residential consumers demand more video content in increasingly personalised bundles." Cisco has available a couple of very comprehensive white papers setting out its methodology and forecasts for traffic growth: Global IP Traffic Forecast and Methodology, 2006–2011 and The Exabyte Era. CONTINUED |
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