SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - November 11, 2008) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Market Trends
- The "Cisco Visual Networking
Index (VNI) Forecast and Methodology, 2007-2012" projects that Internet
Protocol (IP) traffic will increase at a combined annual growth rate of 46
percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. This will
result in an annual bandwidth demand on the world's IP networks of
approximately 522 exabytes, or more than half a zettabyte -- equivalent to
downloading 125 billion DVD movies per month.
- The Cisco
Visual Networking Index report provides key findings on a variety of
consumer and business Internet Protocol (IP) networking trends, driven
largely by the increasing use of video and Web 2.0 social networking and
business collaboration applications.
Today's News: Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers
- The Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Aggregation Services Router follows the introduction eight months ago
of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series, the first Cisco aggregation services
router.
- With the 92-terabit
Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System (CRS) in the core and the Cisco ASR
9000 at the edge, Cisco offers the most comprehensive core and edge
solution needed to meet customer speed and scaling needs in the "zettabyte
era."
- Up to six times the scale of competitors, the Cisco ASR 9000 offers
more capacity for the edge of the networks than competitors do for the
core.
- Capacity to spare
- Ability to deliver high definition streams to every household in Los
Angeles (1.2 million homes) -- simultaneously.
- 400 gigabits capability that is akin to sustain a flow of 20 Niagara
Falls passing through it every second or downloading a digital library of
every book ever written in any language in a single hour.
- Power
- Using only 40 percent the power than competing multi-platform solutions
would need to deliver same capacity.
- Delivering an estimated annual power savings of a single Cisco ASR 9000
compared to a competing product, could watch more than 32,000 hours of
television.
Quotes
- "Earlier generations of edge routers were not designed to address the
massive growth IP video is driving across mobile and wireline networks.
Softbank Corporation is looking for innovative solutions that enable us to
reduce costs, keep pace and converge our broadband, mobile and business
networks onto common infrastructure," said Junishi Miyakawa,¡¡executive
vice president, director and CTO of SOFTBANK MOBILE, SOFTBANK BB, SOFTBANK
TELECOM. "The Cisco ASR 9000 offers investment protection, massive
bandwidth capacity and excellent services capability in a highly reliable
and efficient design that gives us the flexibility to build a truly leading
IP NGN network for our 4G mobile and video services."
- "The Cisco ASR 9000 offers service providers tremendous scalability and
a services-optimized architecture that truly sets a new benchmark in the
industry for carrier Ethernet systems for the zettabyte era," said Pankaj
Patel, senior vice president and general manager of the Cisco Service
Provider Technology Group. "This platform is designed for IP NGN
transformation and will be used as the carrier Ethernet transport
foundation for video and mobility data growth. The Cisco ASR 9000 has been
specifically optimized to deliver video and rich media better than any
other platform on the market."
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Visual Networking, VNI, Cisco ASR 9000, Cisco IOS XR, Cisco ASR 1000, Cisco
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Pankaj Patel, Tony Bates, SOFTBANK MOBILE, SOFTBANK BB, SOFTBANK TELECOM
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