Just how fast is Cisco's new router ? ?

[patio]

Real Fast...

[truenorth]

Wonder how the present infrastructure can handle this HUGE data transmission capability? DSL terminal less than 1/4 mile from my house but the last 300 feet is copper wire.truenorth

[patio]

The optimum speeds were probably achieved on fibre-optic lines...
The infrastructure will always be the weakest link...

[rthompson80819]

That router is designed to be an internet backbone router, and most, but not all, of the internet backbone is already fiber.

Knowing a little bit about Cisco's pricing, that router will probably cost about the same as a house in Beverly Hills.

[Geek-9pm]

...download every movie ever made in 4 minutes.
Plus re-runs of MASH

[Computer Hope Admin]

Very impressive I remember reading last week that Cisco was going to release something groundbreaking this week and that is pretty groundbreaking.

[Veltas]

Just how fast is Cisco's new router?

Not fast enough to be cost-effective; price of a house in beverly hills?!!

Why Cisco?  Why?   

[Geek-9pm]

Because fiber able requires that kind of performance.

By 2002, an intercontinental network of 250,000 km of submarine communications cable with a capacity of 2.56 Tb/s was completed, and although specific network capacities are privileged information,

And the bandwidth on new cable is even better.
And yes,n they will bring it to your door.

[Veltas]

Because fiber able requires that kind of performance.

And the bandwidth on new cable is even better.
And yes,n they will bring it to your door.

Thanks, I forgot that the infrustructure of the internet is pretty overkill; but it has to be to deal with all those 13-year-old kids... 

[soybean]

Just how fast is Cisco's new router?

Not fast enough to be cost-effective; price of a house in beverly hills?!!

Why Cisco?  Why?   

Uh, obviously this is not intended to be a router used by the home or small business users.  Perhaps it is cost-effective in the arena where it's most likely to be used.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Saw recently on a video blog that it'll be $90,000, which isn't that terrible.

[rthompson80819]

For a Cisco router that fast that's not a bad price.

[Veltas]

Saw recently on a video blog that it'll be $90,000, which isn't that terrible.

A lot less expensive than the house, and yeah I realise now that it would be used in industrial mainframe or infrustructure of the internet.