Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router 194
Whitecloud writes "After 4 years of development and $500 million in costs, Cisco have a new router: the CRS-1, or Carrier Routing System. Cool features include a 40 gigabit-per-second optical interface, and the ability to cluster the boxes to act as a single router. retail starts at $450,000. Video available here." Update: 05/26 13:55 GMT by T : Sorry; I missed the previous mention of this device.
Backdoors... (Score:5, Interesting)
Gilette's Mach 3 cost $1 billion to develop... (Score:5, Interesting)
interesting math (Score:5, Interesting)
I was working at BBN when they built the worlds first gigabit router, circa 1990. At the time, they claimed that they could route the entire internet through one of their boxes. It's amazing how far we've come.
Oh, and yes, this whole story is redundant. We did this all yesterday.
Switches (Score:2, Interesting)
Is it me or is Cisco trying to jump itself back into late markets with huge marketing headliners?
Re:Gilette's Mach 3 cost $1 billion to develop... (Score:3, Interesting)