New Cisco Router Supports 322Tbps

Bandwidth at the speed of light? Maybe not but Cisco's new router will supports speeds up to 322 Tbps. What does this new phenomenon speed compare to? Cisco says that with this speed is enough to allow every person in China to make a video call at the same time. And with this new hardware it can be achieved.

The company's new large scale core router is call CRS-3, the CRS stands forCarrier Routing System. Cisco boasts that this new router is 12 times as fast as its nearest competitor and it is 3 times the speed of its predecestor. With this new found technology and hardware did not come cheap, the company stated that it spent $1.6 billion in the product's design and engineering.

Here is the break down of what 322 Tbps is, Tbps is terrabits per second and a terabit is a trillion bits. Now compare that to the mbps(megabits per second) that today's highest speed consumers and business broadband speed connections are measured in. Here are a few of the feats that 322 Tbps could do: Transmitting every motion picture ever made in5 minutes, downloading the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in 1 second, or transmiting the entire DNA sequence of 56,000 people also in 1 second.

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Testing is being prefomed now and CEO John Chambers estimated the router to be available before the end of this year. It also comes with a pretty expensive price tag, reporting that pricing will start at $90,000.

Cisco Valet wireless

Cisco has recently unveiled two new wireless routers for users. The new routers are suppose to be much more simpler for installation and setup process. Cisco target market seems to be for home and small office use. The routers are called Valet. this is the first time cisco uses its name for consumer wireless. Cisco does own linksys a dominate home router. this another step towards cisco goal to become a house hold brand.

According to a study one and four consumers return wireless routers due to the fact they are unable to setup it up properly. Cisco goal is to make the wireless setup and use as simple as possible. the cost of the routers will be $100 and 150 for the longer range model. Cisco router will come with a flash drive for installation part instead of CD's like other routers.

I think since more and more computer users are not tech savvy even a little bit Cisco had to come out the simple way. But also who likes lengthy setups anyway. I'm for the easy setup. Cisco wants to tap in the home market so they had to make it user friendly.

API's bringing big cash to Mashery

Now a days every website is cashing on using APIs to become a platform. Mashery, a company that has hosted APIs for companies and helped manage them, was rewarded with a $5.5 million series of funding. The huge technology company, Cisco, as well as some other companies are the investors in this round of funding.

CEO of Mashery, Oren Michels, stated in the article that so many companies are beginning to test the waters of API and are seeing significant raises in revenue as well as the growth of their companies. Michels goes on to say that companies are seeing the importance of letting their customers interact with they services instead of forcing them to do everything at the companies website. I would say that companies willingness to develop APIs are also very important to education, such as the students of IS449w being able to complete there projects for the course!

Mashery will use this new money to hire more people in sales and marketing to be able to expand their product. Currently there are 40,000 developers connected to the website. Some of the bigger names being: Bestbuy, Netflix and New York Times. I think this is another great website, other than programmable web, that we can use to gather information of our APIs. Also check out 3scale. The article lists them as Mashery's competitor.

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