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Telecommunications Hot chips from Juniper lift router performance dramatically
Telecommunications Hot chips from Juniper lift router performance dramatically | Hot chips from Juniper lift router performance dramatically |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 29 October 2009 | |
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"Junos Trio with 3D Scaling is the only chipset of its kind on the planet," said Pradeep Sindhu, Juniper's founder, vice chairman and CTO. "This will dramatically change the economics for our customers, while helping them create new and better experiences for their customers. This is the platform for the next decade." He said that Juniper hand invested more than $US80 million over the last five years to develop Junos Trio. It represents Juniper's fourth generation of purpose-built silicon, and is claimed to be incorporate industry's first "network instruction set" – billed as "a new silicon architecture unlike traditional application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and network processing units (NPUs)... that leverages customised 'network instructions' that are designed into silicon to maximise performance and functionality, while working closely with Junos [Juniper's network operating system used across all its products] to ensure programmability of network resources." According to Juniper, "Junos Trio includes four chips with a total of 1.5 billion transistors and 320 simultaneous processes, yielding total router throughput up to 2.6Tbps and up to 2.3 million subscribers per rack – far exceeding the performance and scale possible through off-the-shelf silicon." Juniper has released new MX80 routers and cards incorporating the new chipsets, claiming dramatic performance gains and very substantial leads over competing products. Juniper claims that the new line cards and MX router combined: increase RoI over five years by up to 540 percent; reduce operating expenses for aggregation services up to 47 percent; reduce operating expenses for business services up to 63 percent; reduce operating expenses for residential services up to 77 percent and improve power efficiency by a factor of 10-to-1 versus other vendors. It says these figures have been "validated through a commissioned study conducted by an independent third party." CONTINUED
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