Igniting Social Change

Cisco’s new CRS-1 4-Slot Single-Shelf System an Foundation for IP NG Network.

The new Cisco CRS-1 4-Slot Single-Shelf System is a compact 40-Gbps router, can fit in a standard rack.
It can extend the core to regional class 3 and 4 central offices, MSO hub locations, and especially data center peering sites.

It represents a smaller, more cost-effective configuration of the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, which marks a new era in carrier IP communications by powering the foundation for network and service convergence today while protecting investments for decades to come.
This would mean the Line Cards, MSC’s and PLIMs and more so over cost saving.

i love friday nights where i do some good reading …. i am on my way further into reading and will post if i found something interesting.

Kudos
Neo

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Hey Readers,

I am goona be very g33k in my post, but i am sure it is going to make sense to the Managers at the ISP transport / IP teams, but i hope everyone gets interested reading this .

Force10 has launched a 4-port OC-48c/OC-12c/OC-3c Packet over SONET/SDH (POS) line card for the Force10 E-Series E1200 and E600 is based on the innovative Force10 TeraScale™ ASICs and provides pluggable SFP optics supporting distances up to 80km.
These cards will present a truly flexible solution that can be used in applications spanning the MAN and WAN.

This line card provides industry leading density of up to 56 OC-48c/ OC-12c/OC-3c multi-rate POS ports in a single chassis. Additionally, the TeraScale ASICs and E-Series architecture deliver line-rate performance with QoS and access control lists (ACLs) enabled and jumbo frame support with full functionality Layer 3 routing.

Woah i did really say another great card to F10’s E600/E1200 MAN switches.

Part No. :: LC-EG-OC-48c-4P

Aside :: Nik {the management g33k as we call him in the group}, when is the Wiki gonna be public, so that i can post this there

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Over the past couple of years, a bunch of ISPs have started (usually quietly) applying traffic shaping efforts to slow down your high bandwidth applications like BitTorrent. This is part of what the whole network neutrality debate is about, but this has more to do with the ISPs trying to keep out services that use up more bandwidth then they budgeted for. What it really represents is the inability of ISPs to recognize a simple fact: if you offer people bandwidth, they’ll figure out ways to use it. The ISPs got into this big race with each other, and all promised unlimited bandwidth at cheap prices, making the calculation that the demand for bandwidth wouldn’t increase very much, and most people wouldn’t use very much at all. They were wrong. But, rather than admit that they made a mistake, they suddenly pretend that the “all you can eat” broadband they sold you is something different — one where they can arbitrarily limit what you can do with that bandwidth. They sold you one thing, with the belief that you wouldn’t actually use it, and now that you are, they’re shoving in place temporary fixes to stop you from using what they sold you.

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