The same week Juniper announced its biggest core router to date, Cisco says its whacking big router, the CRS-1 (once know as HFR – we don’t need to spell out that acronym here), has been snapped up by 85 customers since it was launched in 2004.
According to a story in EE Times, more than 900 systems have been shipped since August 2004. CRS-1 was introduced in May of that year, and had been in development for more than two years prior.
The newest customer is Neuf Cegetel (Paris), which announced the CRS-1 will be used at the core of a network that will employ the 7600 series routers in 200 points of presence and 1,200 central offices throughout France. Neuf Cegetel’s broadband aggregation network already is based on Cisco’s Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network 10-Gbit Ethernet architecture.
EE Times attributes the growth in sales to the explosion in bandwidth demand, thanks to video and VoIP, and the disappearance of rival core router suppliers, including Caspian and Charlotte’s Web.
Juniper launched its 16-slot, 1.6TB T1600 core router on Monday. Juniper claims T1600 offers 2.5 times the capacity of CRS-1 with 30% less power and cooling requirements.
Is the market for huge core routers large enough for both Cisco and Juniper?
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