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Cisco is reportedly close to pushing the start button on manufacturing for a router to surpass its current CRS-3 core router. According to Light Reading, which says it's seen a Cisco document outlining the as-yet-unannounced “CTR” router, the new iron will support 1 Tbps per 10x100 Gbps ports slot. That would put the per-slot …

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  1. Nate Amsden

    not a router

    but a switch - the Black Diamond X-Series has been shipping with 1.2Tbps per slot since early 2012.

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  2. John Smith 19 Gold badge
    Unhappy

    Even more bandwidth to over sell, over contention and throttle.

    Whoopee.

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  3. elkadiki.hisham

    bit late ?

    Juniper has a, more than, 2 TB per slot Router ( the PTX 5000 ) and the MX 2020 Router.

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  4. MojoJojo

    I thought the PTX5000 was a label router - but it turns out Juniper started saying it's an IP router now. Can't find out what sort of rate it can manage IP traffic.

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  5. MMull

    Please give me the software features of all your mentioned boxes on an 1 - 2 HU router with 1/10 Gbe ethernet slots...

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