Cisco did 100GE before, based upon the 802.3ba: http://www.10gea.org/100-ge-router-cisco-comcast.htm The 'wow' factor in this is news might be that these new linecards are nonblocking and will eventually support the final standard without hardware changes. Arjan -----Original Message----- From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patrick@ianai.net] Sent: Tue 3/9/2010 11:02 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: CRS-3 On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Jake Khuon wrote:
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:29 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
The only "wow" here is "wow, why did cisco hype how far behind they are?"
Because in some organisations, the only vendor that matters is Cisco.
Then why bother hyping at all? Anyone who needs even a significant fraction of 322 Tbps is not going to ignore competitors. -- TTFN, patrick Internet communications are not secure; therefore, the integrity of this e-mail cannot be guaranteed following transmission on the Internet. This e-mail may contain confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail. Use of this e-mail by any person other than the addressee is strictly forbidden. This e-mail is believed to be free of any virus that might adversely affect the addressee's computer system; however, no responsibility is accepted for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. All the preceding disclaimers also apply to any possible attachments to this e-mail.