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Routers rebound now; optical, wireless later

The router market worldwide will grow by 6% over the next five years, while optical transport and mobility infrastructure will not be significant growth until the year 2005, according to Dell’Oro Group.

In a series of five-year forecasts, Dell’Oro said the router market will grow from $ 6.3 billion in 2003 to 8.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2008. The second half of 2003 was the “turning point” for the market, which had experienced declining sales for several years, Dell’Oro states.

telecommunications service providers and enterprises are planning to increase investment in their router networks this year, Dell’Oro expects this trend to continue over the next five years.

The market for optical transport equipment will be flat this year, after years of decline, and return to sales growth in 2005, says Dell’Oro. Sale of optical transport equipment will reach 7.3 billion U.S. dollars by the year 2008, the company provides, from $ 6.1 billion in 2003.

Metro applications will lead to recovery as service providers focus on offering differentiated services, says Dell’Oro. In 2004, the company estimates that 65% of sales of optical transport equipment will be deployed in an application of a meter, compared with 30% three years ago at the peak of the optical market.

Meanwhile, the market for total mobility infrastructure – GSM / GPRS / EDGE, TDMA, CDMA and WCDMA – reduced by 1% in 2004 to 25.7 billion U.S. dollars, and then begin to recover in 2005 with 5% growth, says Dell’Oro. Growth is forecast to accelerate to 13% in 2006 due to new deployments in China, and CDMA 1X EV-DO and DV upgrades.

In 2006, revenues infrastructure and WCDMA base station shipments down surpass those of GSM-based systems.

The total market, driven mainly by WCDMA, will increase by 7% in 2007 and 2008, reaching 34.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2008, the company says.

Trends fueling the recovery include improved global macroeconomic environment, improving the service economy, such as stabilized average revenue per user per month, and low capital expenditure income ratio and the proliferation of subscriber terminals color screens and cameras, which will stimulate the development of applications.

Cisco Linksys routers still don’t support IPv6

It is difficult to understand why Cisco has not added IPv6 to its Linksys consumer routers yet, but the company is committed to supporting arrive this spring.

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It is 2011, the IPv4 addresses are officially sold out, and the world’s largest maker of routers, Cisco is not yet compatible with IPv6 in its best-selling line of Linksys wireless routers. This is true even for the router E4200 released last month (priced at $ 180). The company is committed to having IPv6 support for the Linksys line for spring, but has not been determined.

The networking world has been aware of the shortage of IPv4 addresses for years. Cisco’s competitors, D-Link and Netgear, for example, have been offering consumer certificates IPv6 routers for a while. Cisco routers support IPv6 company (of course) and have also been certified by the IPv6 Forum. Cisco has been involved in the IPv6 world day trial last year, even started to eat their own dog food IPv6, IPv6 serve content through its Web site www.ipv6.cisco.com. Heck, PC customers have had IPv6 support as an optional extra, since Windows XP SP2 and default from Vista. Mac OS has supported IPv6 since 2004.

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Updated: Cisco did not immediately address these issues, but offered this official statement:

“IPv6 is essential for next-generation Internet, enabling a range of new services and improved user experiences. As ISPs begin deployment of IPv6 services to its customers, consumers will need new routers and gateways that support IPv6 to participate in this next generation Internet. Later this spring, Cisco will begin to enable IPv6 on its entire line of consumer routers including the Linksys maximum performance E4200 Dual-Band Wireless-N Router. It is essential that consumers start to search for products and devices that support IPv6. Cisco has been and remains a leader in the development of IPv6 so that consumers can be sure that Cisco’s products offer superior performance of current first-line and provide a basis for the future. ”

After reading the statement he asked if Cisco’s words, “consumers will have new routers and gateways that support IPv6” meant that Cisco is going to require their customers to buy new routers with IPv6 support in routers available. We again asked whether there was any way for those who have recently bought new Cisco routers get when deploying IPv6, and if the routers of owning older also offer support for IPv6.

Update: We’ve received no response. After waiting three days for a response, Cisco, finally told us: “The E4200 has just launched Linksys and Linksys routers that will be launched this year -. IPv6 support out of the box or through a firmware update (free) “Cisco has not shared information on whether current users of Linksys routers will provide an update of the routers they already own.

When we asked questions similar Netgear, a company spokesperson told us: “Most of today not only Netgear routers support IPv6, but are also certified. We are working on IPv6 support for all our current shipping and routers will be available to customers in the form of a firmware update. “

IPv6 on home routers and DSL/cable modems

It seems that the era of unlimited data consumption is not only an end to the wireless Internet services.

That’s because, as reported for the first time reports of broadband, AT & T in the implementation of plans for a new 150GB cap DSL customers and a 250GB cap its U-verse customers from May . According to reports of broadband, AT & T will charge users an extra $ 10 per 50 GB of data you consume above the limit of the CAP. However, these excess charges only start once the users have exceeded the caps three times or more – in other words, users can go over the top twice during the life of your account and will not face charges for excess .

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AT & T Broadband Reports said that potential overage charges would affect only about 2% of its ADSL customers, as the average DSL customers consume 18 GB of data per month. The company also says it will notify customers when they exceed 65%, 90% and 100% of your monthly data allowance, similar to how AT & T is communicated to its wireless subscribers as they are about exceed the monthly limits.

AT & T and rival carrier Verizon is so far from all you can eat data plans and to the different service plans for its wireless services, such as the recently published data IPAD two plans offered by tapas ranging from 250 MB per month to 10 GB per month. AT & T has the ball rolling on the covers of mobile data last year when it announced it would drop the unlimited data plans for iPhone in favor of plans that offer between 200 MB and 2 GB of data usage per month. Verizon soon followed suit, saying that it would take a similar pricing scheme for LTE 4G services that should launch later this year. Verizon COO Lowell McAdam hinted earlier this year plans LTE could give users a certain amount of data you can consume each month before they would have to pay excessive fees.

But the application of data covers fixed telephony services has not worked particularly well for the ISP. In 2009, for example, Time-Warner Cable decided to close a test program that places caps bandwidth of its Internet services by cable, because of complaints from customers about the possibility of paying overage charges. ISPs have been experimenting with the implementation of the bandwidth caps since 2008, when Comcast, Time Warner Cable and AT & T announced that they were testing the new service stop. All the covers had been consistently controversial, however, as a woman even has sued AT & T to be billed $ 5,000 in fees for excess Internet.

Brocade launches management tools and 100GbE router

Brocade has launched Advisor Brocade network, a converged platform for managing storage area networks and IP networks, and high density of 100 Gb Ethernet router as part of its overall strategy for data centers.

The products, announced Wednesday, are part of Brocade specializes in networking is a strategy that aims to simplify the architecture of the modern data center. Compete with the data center packages offered by other hardware companies such as Cisco Unified Information System and the state of Juniper Networks Project.

“Brocade Advisory Network (BNA) helps reduce customer operating costs, minimizing training, increased automation and consolidation of tools,” said Jason Nolet, Vice President Data Center of the company and the network group business, in a statement.

The Brocade 7500 SAN router

The Brocade 7500 SAN router can help save time and money when moving large amounts of data.

The Brocade 7500 SAN Router is a faster (4 Gb/sec) routing switch that gives scalable Fibre Channel routing services, combined with performance-optimized SAN extension, all managed by familiar Brocade administrative tools, under a unified management platform.

Now you can cost-effectively corral all your SAN data, for backup and DR, quickly and securely, on independent fabrics, local or remote. It is powerful enough to boost high-performance enterprise storage network throughput while significantly cutting costs. And it is affordable enough to bring cost-effective device and data sharing to just two small SANs.

Specifications

Provides an enterprise building block for consolidation and business continuity solutions that drive efficiency and cost savings
Significantly reduces the cost and effort of SAN design, implementation, and management
Enables secure connections across IP WANs through IPSec encryption, and provides powerful hardware-assisted FCIP capabilities for line-rate performance
Optimizes performance for SAN extension across suboptimal WANs with storage optimized protocol enhancements and features such as Fast Write for FCIP, Tape Pipelining, and hardware-based compression
Simplifies interconnection and support for mixed-vendor SAN environments

Key Benefits

Saves time and money on SAN design, implementation, and management
Device sharing across disparate SANs at 4 Gb/sec speeds
Powerful hardware-assisted FC over IP line-rate remote performance
Highly advanced, standardized SAN connectivity services
Reliable, safe SAN extension across suboptimal WANs
SAN sharing without the complexity of physically merging SANs