Looks like Network World’s Jim Duffy may have beaten hot shot reporter Ira Pumfkin to the news: the big announcement that Cisco is teasing its customers about in its current viral marketing campaign is for a new service provider edge router expected to launch on Nov. 11. The product is likely to succeed the aging 7600 series Ethernet platforms. Duffy cites Oppenheimer & Co., which this week released a bulletin to investors stating that, “based on our checks,” it expects Cisco to introduce a new edge router platform in mid-November. “We believe the platform will take on the ASR name (ASR X000) but will be materially different OS and feature wise than the previously announced ASR 1000” for enterprises,” according to Oppenheimer &Co.
Read Jim’s story here.
