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A tale of the ASR 9000, 6.4Tbps and the year 2010

There has been a heated debate as a result of this Network World story which asks how Cisco claims the ASR 9000 can achieve 6.4Tbps of bandwidth with 400Gbps per slot. The folks at Seeking Alpha say they've figured it out and if they are right, that speed likely won't be available in the ASR 9000 until 2010. They write: "We think we know what the answer might be and it is EZchip Semiconductor. ... we have come to learn through our independent research efforts that EZchip’s NP-3c processor is being used in the initial line cards for the ASR 9000 and EZchip’s 100 gig NP-4 processors are likely to be included in future line cards for this product." Seeking Alpha estimates that those future NP-4 line cards should become available in 2010. 

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    Cisco today announced that it has beefed up its 880 Series Integrated Services Router by adding support for 3G. The new feature is called 3G Mobility and Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) -- a mouthful that means the 880 can now failover to a 3G wireless WAN connection if it has access to one.

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