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Cisco today announced a major advancement in Internet networking – the Cisco ® CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) – designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond.

With more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, the Cisco CRS-3 is designed to transform the broadband communications and entertainment industry by accelerating the delivery of compelling new experiences for consumers, new revenue opportunities for service providers, and new ways to collaborate in the workplace.

Overview:

The Cisco CRS-3 triple the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, with up to 322 terabits per second, Which 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.

The Cisco CRS-3 Enables unified service delivery of web services and cloud with service spanning intelligence service provider Internet Protocol Next-Generation Networks (IP NGNs) and data center. The Cisco CRS-3 also provides unprecedented savings with investment protection for the nearly 5.000 Cisco CRS-1 deployed worldwide. Cisco’s cumulative investment in the Cisco CRS family is $ 1.6 billion, further underscoring the company’s commitment.

AT & T, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, recently tested the Cisco CRS-3 in a successful completion of the world’s first field trial of 100-gigabit backbone network technology, Which took place in AT & T’s network live between New Orleans and Miami. The trial advances AT & T’s development of the next generation of backbone network technology that will support the network requirements for the growing number of advanced services offered by AT & T to consumer and business customers, both fixed and mobile.

The Cisco CRS-3 is currently in field trials, and its pricing starts at $ 90,000 U.S.

Highlights and Capabilities for the Next-Generation Internet:

Unmatched Scale: With a proven multi-chassis architecture, the Cisco CRS-3 can deliver up to 322 Tbps of capacity, more than tripling the 92 Tbps capacity of the Cisco CRS-1 and representing more than 12 times the capacity of any other core router in the industry.

Single Core and Data Center / Cloud Intelligence Services: In addition to capacity requirements, the growth of mobile and video applications are creating new traffic patterns with multidirectional The increasing emergence of the cloud data center. The new Cisco Data Center Services System provides tight linkages between the Cisco CRS-3, Cisco Nexus family and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to enable unified service delivery of cloud services. This intelligence also includes carrier-grade IPv6 (CGv6) and core IP / MPLS technologies that enabled new IP NGN architectural efficiencies required to keep pace with the rapidly growing market cloud services. Unique capabilities include:
Network Positioning System (NPS) – provides Layers 3 to 7 application information for best path to content, improving consumer and business experiences while reducing costs.

Cloud virtual private network (VPN) for Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)-enables pay-as-you-go ‘for compute, storage and network resources by automating Cisco CRS-3 and Cisco Nexus Inter-Data Center connections for Cisco UCS .

Unprecedented Savings: The Cisco CRS-3 offers dramatic operational expense savings and up to 60 percent savings on power consumption compared to competitive platforms. The Cisco CRS-3 also delivers significant capital expenditures savings and investment protection for existing Cisco CRS-1 customers. The new capabilities in the platform can be achieved by reusing the existing frame, route processors, fans and power systems with the addition of new line cards and fabric. These upgrades can be performed in-service and be provided by Cisco Services To ensure a smooth transition.

Silicon Innovation: The Cisco CRS-3 is powered by the new Cisco QuantumFlow Array Processor, Which UNIFIED The combined power of six chips to work as one, enabling unprecedented levels of service capabilities and processing power. Making this implementation even more unique is its ability to deliver capabilities with a fraction of the power required by lesser performing chipsets. The Cisco QuantumFlow Array chipset was designed to Provide the new system the ability to scale with the Ever Increasing Demands Being Placed on the IP NGN by the many different applications and trillions of devices being used by both businesses and consumers in the Zettabyte era.

Voipfone offers a wide range of hosted VoIP services for small businesses and residential customers. The Advanced Service Provider Award awarded based PBX (News – Alert) functionality. Features such as call forwarding, integration of voicemail and music on hold service Voipfone tested to ensure they are fully compatible with the snom phones have been, according to company officials .

snom accreditation allows end users to help Voipfone the best of your snom phones with high-quality partners in other sectors of the VoIP network, they added.

“We work with Voipfone by one of our distributors provu established since 2005 and we are delighted that he has passed interoperability testing to work with us as a high level of service,” said Nelly Monkhouse, Director of Sales United Kingdom for SNOM in a statement. “Here in SNOM, we proceed to align with partners that meet our high standards and help us ensure that our customers get the most out of their dedicated VoIP phones.

Voipfone, a founding member of the ITSPA, the United Kingdom, the trade group of the industry recommends snom phones to their customers for over five years and have developed confidence in the reliability, technology and professional support, according to company officials.

“It is this partnership of great phones and a large network that has enabled the Voipfone to win the 2009 UK Small Business VOIP Service Provider of the Year Award ITSPA” said Colin Duffy, CEO of Voipfone in a statement

snom develops and manufactures IP phones and similar devices based on the open standard Session Initiation Protocol (News – Alert), or “SIP” and TR-069/TR-111standard, the company said.

A special feature of snom phones is that the software is in the firmware of the phone – to facilitate user access to updates and new features. The phones also offer the flexibility and interoperability, according to company officials.

snom has launched its latest VoIP communication products and technologies presented at the SMB market for business and atITEXPO (News – Alert) East 2010 in Miami, held January 20-22. The exhibits include the snom 870 phone desktop touch screen and public address system AP1. snom snom OCS has also presented papers and its unified IP phone snom conference called Meeting Point, TMCnet

Cisco on Tuesday launched a three-phase plan to reduce the energy consumption of datacentres, network infrastructure and attached devices such as phones, video-surveillance cameras, wireless-access points and in the datacentre.

Cisco said the EnergyWise strategy, intended for Cisco Catalyst switches, is for measuring, reporting on and reducing the energy consumption of IP devices. The company also announced industry partnerships that it said could help reduce power consumption in buildings from lights, lifts, air conditioning and heating.

The first phase of the plan, to be launched in February, will cover network control of the Cisco Catalyst switches.

The second phase will be launched in the summer and will cover the control of IT resources. At the same time, the company claimed, it will also have expanded industry support of EnergyWise on devices such as PCs, laptops and printers.

The final phase, which is due in early 2010, will focus on building controls and will also be extended to cover the management of building system assets such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning, lifts, lights, employee-badge-access systems, fire-alarm systems and security systems.

According to Dave Frampton, general manager for the switching business unit at Cisco, the company is getting involved in green datacentre strategies because “[Cisco sits] at the centre so [Cisco is] the logical place to blend together all the middleware element”.

“The IP network is the single pervasive element,” he said.

EnergyWise is intended to provide “real-time, granular measurement capabilities to give chief information officers better visibility into energy savings across an entire organisation”, Cisco said in its statement.

The EnergyWise programme is available to users of Cisco 2K and 3K switches at no charge, Frampton said.

Cisco is to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its drive towards what it calls “unified computing ‘.

Unified computing, says the company, Involves combining network, virtualization and compute resources into a single system. Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series rack-mount servers, announced on Wednesday, add a new element to a portfolio that already includes UCS blade servers.

Like the UCS blade servers, Which were announced in March, the C-Series rack-mount servers are based on Intel’s Xeon 5500 chips Nehalem.

Cisco’s UCS range is the company’s first foray into the server hardware business. The company is better known for its networking products.

Also on Wednesday, Cisco announced two new IT certification for individual customers and channel partners: Cisco Unified Computing Data Center Design Specialist and the Cisco Unified Data Center Computing Support Specialist.

The certifications cover skills such as storage networking, data center networking infrastructure, data center services and application virtualization.

Hyped as the router that would ‘change forever the face of the Internet’, Cisco has launched its new CRS-3 system as the box it predicts will stream video into the Net’s darkest recesses.

To the casual eye, it looks like another cabinet full of flashing lights of the sort used by Internet carriers the world over, but to Cisco the CRS-3 (carrier routing system 3) is a pile of statistics. Capable of shifting up to 322Tbit/s, it has triple the capacity of its predecessor, the CRS-1, and is contentiously said to have ‘twelve times’ the capacity of its nearest competing system.

Powered by Cisco’s packet-shifting QuantumFlow Array processor, Cisco sees it as the first step on the road to the forthcoming ‘zettabyte era’ (four orders of magnitude up from today’s gigabit/gigabyte world), which 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,” read the official release.

Why Cisco is choosing to tell the world about a chunk of Internet infrastructure most people are barely even aware exists is an interesting question in itself. It has more direct competition than it did during the infrastructure boom of the 1990s – the one that took the backbone architecture from megabits per second to gigabits per second and now on towards terabits per second – from companies such as Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, and Huawei.

According to a recent Dell O’ro Group, during 2009 it lost market share in a number of market sectors, and its share of the core routing market into which the CRS-3 is pitched showed modest declines. Mostly this is driven by price. Cisco is still seen as the expensive option in some quarters.

But even in world of tough competition, the need for ever higher capacities remains, driven overwhelmingly by latency-sensitive applications such as video, which have started eating into the Internet’s core capacity.

Cisco said the CRS-3 has been in field trials with AT&T for some time, including the showcase 100 Gigabit per second fibre network between New Orleans and Miami.

“We are entering the next stage of global communication and entertainment services and applications, which requires a new set of advanced Internet networking technologies,” said AT&T Labs’ CEO, Keith Cambron. “AT&T’s network handled 40 percent more traffic in 2009 than it did in the previous year, and we continue to see this growth in 2010.”

The starting price for the CRS-3 is $90,000 (£60,000).