A competitor to Cisco has appeared in the IP routing scene. Anagran is founded by one of the "fathers" of the Internet, Larry Roberts, one of the developers of the ARPANET network that evolved into the Internet. The Anagram Anagran FR-1000 Flow Router is a one-rack unit designed to improve the performance of IP-based video, voice, data and wireless applications with lower cost and energy consumption than today’s Layer 3 routers. Read more about the product in Jim Duffy's story.
Despite the pedigree of the founder, squeezing a dime out of the router market in competition with Cisco and Juniper is going to be tough, according to Om Malik, commenting in GigaOm.
Several have failed, and others have had to embrace equally large players like Alcatel-Lucent to earn a living.
How are Anagran's chances?
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ATM, MPLS, and now the next great idea?
Really, truly...gimme a freaking break! The never-ending saga of the 'next generation network' is becoming a pathetic tale of follow-through and conviction. Why introduce another so-called new technology when none of the existing efforts have been fully implemented and leveraged? Is the sensation and hype too much? Is the urge to forklift and spend gobs of money worth more than losing it next year's budget? Whatever the motivation, before we start reading stories about the salvation of networking don't you think it would be a good idea to just follow through on one that already exists? STOP THE MADNESS!