SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - July 15, 2008) - Cisco (
NASDAQ:
CSCO) today announced new
enhancements to its innovative Internet Protocol over dense
wavelength-division multiplexing (IPoDWDM) technology, which helps enable
service providers deliver a wide array of services to their businesses and
consumers. Cisco pioneered the technology on its Cisco® Carrier Routing
System (CRS-1), the core platform for the Cisco IP Next-Generation Network
(IP NGN) architecture, as a means to minimize the additional capital and
operating expenses associated with traffic growth. The Cisco technology is
also now available at the edge of the network.
To handle the massive growth in video traffic and IPTV applications,
service providers such as
Sprint and
Comcast
are upgrading their core network infrastructures with high-capacity port
modules that can provide data throughput at 40-gigabits per second (Gbps)
across existing 10-Gbps systems using IPoDWDM. The advent of rich online
video communications and entertainment, as well as social networking, has
greatly increased the impact of video on network traffic.
In 2012, Internet video traffic alone will be 400 times the traffic carried
by the U.S. Internet backbone in 2000, according to the "
Cisco Visual Networking
Index (VNI) Forecast and Methodology, 2007-2012" report.
Representative of this trend, Internet video has jumped from 12 percent of
global consumer Internet traffic in 2006 to 22 percent in 2007. Video on
demand (VoD), IPTV, peer-to-peer video, and Internet video are forecast to
account for nearly 90 percent of all consumer IP traffic in 2012.
"Sprint's efforts to move to an all-IP platform continue to gain momentum,"
said Iyad Tarazi, vice president of network development for Sprint. "By
converging all types of business applications (voice, video and data) on a
common, flexible IP core network, customers can benefit from greater
mobility, cost savings, real-time access to people and information and
transform the way they do business with next-generation products and
services."
"Video in all flavors means service providers must grow network capacity to
meet exponential demands," said Michael Howard principal analyst at
Infonetics Research. "Cisco has been in the forefront of anticipating
fast-growing user demand for more bandwidth, and the increasing adoption of
IPoDWDM is proof that its technology is also at the forefront."
New IPoDWDM Enhancements to Cisco IP NGN Infrastructure
Along with boosting port speeds to 40 Gbps to meet bandwidth growth,
service providers are looking to integrate packet and optical transport
layers with IPoDWDM technology. Cisco today also announced significant
enhancements to its IPoDWDM solution and Cisco XR 12000 and 12000 Series
routers for service providers. These include:
-- Doubling the reach of the Cisco CRS-1 40-Gbps IPoDWDM to an industry-
leading 2,000 kilometers (about 1,250 miles) without regeneration. The new
40Gbps physical line module interface supports deployments in virtually any
geographic area.
-- Extending the power of Cisco IPoDWDM solution to the network's edge on
the Cisco XR 12000 and 12000 Series Routers with a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet
shared port adapter that enables instant bandwidth up to 10 Gbps over 2,000
kilometers.
-- Reducing provisioning on the Cisco ONS 15454 platform with the
industry's first omni directional and colorless mesh reconfigurable optical
add-drop multiplexer (ROADM). This will decrease truck rolls and lower the
requirements for power, space and cooling by more than 50 percent.
-- Increasing resiliency with proactive protection feature that guards
video and mission-critical data against fiber cuts by resetting failover
benchmarks to 15 milliseconds (ms), three times faster than the industry
standard of 50 ms.
-- Enhancing the ability for service providers to deploy with separate
data and transport departments with virtual transponder -- now transport
departments can directly manage the optics integrated into the router.
"Service provider customers around the world are upgrading their networks
to include an IPoDWDM interface module with the Cisco CRS-1 platform," said
Kelly Ahuja, Cisco vice president and general manager of the service
provider routing technology group. "By incorporating optical technologies
directly into its most advanced and highest-capacity routers, Cisco offers
service providers with the flexibility, scalability, ease of installation
and management necessary to maximize their returns on network investments."
Find More Information Online:
Web Site Links
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Cisco IPoDWDM Solution
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Cisco Website
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Cisco Service Provider
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Cisco
Carrier Routing System (CRS-1)
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Cisco XR
12000 and 12000 Series Router
Recent Cisco CRS-1 News
Sprint,
Cisco and Ciena Fuel Next-Generation Services with 40-Gbps Circuits on the
Global Sprint Tier 1 IP Network
Growth of
Video Service Delivery Drives Sales of Cisco CRS-1, the World's Most
Powerful Routing Platform, to Double in Nine Months
The
Cisco Visual Networking
Index Forecast and Methodology, 2007-2012 and the associated updated
"Approaching the
Zettabyte Era" Cisco white paper are part of the
Cisco Visual
Networking Index, an ongoing Cisco initiative designed to provide
quantitative and qualitative information regarding trends in IP network
demand and usage.
(1) A zettabyte is equal to: 1 trillion gigabytes; 1,000 exabytes;
250 billion DVDs.
(2) An exabyte is equal to: 1 billion gigabytes; 1,000 petabytes;
250 million DVDs.
Tags / Keywords
Cisco, Cisco CRS-1, Cisco IP NGN, Cisco IP Next-Generation Network, IP NGN,
Cisco IPoDWDM, IPoDWDM, Cisco XR 12000 Series Routers, router, routers
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