Cisco's New Router Will Bring Internet Downloads/Streaming to Unprecedented Speed?

[dereksworl]

Link to full article. The PR guy danced around the question of when 'its' coming better than Floyd Mayweather. Also did not specify the speed in bytes(GBs, TBs, ect.) either. To stream/download every movie made in 4mins would surpass TB connection speeds i would imagine

Cisco Says New Router to "Forever Change the Internet": The Question Is 'When?

Editor's note: Cisco made headlines today announcing a next generation router that will revolutionize the internet by increasing downloads to unheard of speeds. The Cisco press release makes the following claims about the CRS-3 router:

It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.

Tech Ticker interviewed Kelly Ahuja, Cisco Senior Vice President and General Manager Service Provider Routing Technology Group about the new product this afternoon. He answered all our questions but one: When will consumers be able to take advantage of this new high speed internet? Perhaps that's because that part of the equation is up to our internet service providers. Until they upgrade it might as well all be a dream.

Below is Kara Swisher's take on the new product.

Provided by All Things D, March 9, 2010:

Cisco today announced a new version of its key routing system, which the networking giant said has a dozen times the traffic capacity of competitors and three times as much as the company’s previous version.

Cisco’s CEO John Chambers said the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System is aimed at the huge growth in video on the Internet, a trend that has also caused slowdowns.

Pankaj Patel, SVP and GM for the service provider business, claimed the system could in just a few minutes deliver all the movies ever made or allow everyone in China to make a video phone call at once.

It had better. The consumption of video online is growing like crazy and a constant bottleneck is likely without some relief.

[The Reaper]

Router is only as amazing as your ISP......my router now is 54Mbps and I only get like 20Mbps through my ISP.....

Unless I read this incredibly wrong.....

[lobosrul]

Yeah, that router is for internet backbones. It has no effect on if say, QWEST, will ever deliver fiber to the home in my neighborhood and my upstream speed will ever be over 1mbps, so things like HD video conferencing will be possible.

The router speed is over 200 Tb/s I believe. I saw an article about it somewhere, slashdot maybe.

[dereksworl]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Router is only as amazing as your ISP......my router now is 54Mbps and I only get like 20Mbps through my ISP.....

Unless I read this incredibly wrong.....

Yeah the router is for the ISPs themselves according to Cnet.com. They will be sold to major ISPs(Verizon, AT&T, Sprint ect.) for about $90,000.

[The Reaper]

ahhhhh ok NOW it makes a little more sense. Pretty impressive then..... I guess i did read it properly but was thinking of the wrong customer..

[quetzalcoatl]

Sorry they can say what they want but it can only be as fast as the last mile. So until these companys get that part of the infrastructure taken care of I donot see it.