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Cisco unveiled CRS-3, its new router, in a high-profile March 9 announcement. In a Webcast, Cisco executives suggested that the increasing use of online video and other high-bandwidth tools and applications would eventually make the router’s 322-terabit capacity a necessary part of IT infrastructure. The CRS-3 offers three times the capacity of Cisco's CRS-1, released in 2004, which laid the foundation for much of Cisco's network-as-platform strategy.
Cisco unveiled a new router, the CRS-3, that it claimed in the ramp-up to the March 9 announcement would "forever change the Internet." Whether or not that bold prophecy comes to fruition, the CRS-3 is nonetheless capable of handling enormous amounts of online traffic, with a Cisco executive claiming that the router with its 322-terabit-per-second capacity could enable every man, woman and child in China to make a video call simultaneously, or download every movie ever made in around four minutes.
That 322-terabit capacity effectively triples that of CRS-1, Cisco’s large-scale core router launched in 2004. During a March 9 Webcast with the media and analysts, Cisco CEO John Chambers predicted that the growth in video and collaboration would ultimately drive the need for CRS-3 and its enormous capacity.
“Video is the killer app,” Chambers said. “This is about video over the Internet. It is this type of load you’re going to see from the average consumer, which they said would be impossible.”
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