Juniper unveils giant router

Optical Networking This newsletter is sponsored by SolarWinds The Shortcut Guide to Network Management for the Mid-Market This guide outlines real-world technologies and processes to implement centralized management of your network infrastructure. Using the OSI FCAPS model as a framework, this eBook explains the critical components of fault, performance, configuration and security management, as well as network troubleshooting and diagnostics. Network World's Optical Networking Newsletter, 06/13/07 Juniper unveils giant router By Jim Duffy Juniper Networks Monday announced a 16-slot core router for service providers that boasts bandwidth of 1.6Tbps, more than twice that of the company’s previous high-end system. The vendor’s T1600, in a half-rack configuration, blows past the 5-year-old T640, which tops out at 640Gbps. Juniper claims its new box provides 2.5 times the capacity of Cisco’s CRS-1 router with 30% less power and cooling requirements. Slideshow: Take a closer look at Juniper's next generation core router, the T1600 Network World LAN/WAN Buyer's Guide Find the right LAN/WAN products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information will help you quickly pinpoint what you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guide now. T640 customers can upgrade to the new router in 90 minutes without service interruption, Juniper says. Given that the T640 came out in 2002, they might be eager to do just that. “The T640 is old,” says Mark Seery, an analyst at Ovum. “Five years is a long time in this business.” Service-aware routers The T1600 is also “service aware,” according to Juniper, meaning that it can provide content-specific transmission quality depending on the traffic type – voice and video, in addition to data. Core networks that are not service aware delay new service introduction, lead to inefficient use of resources, force the construction of complex network architectures, and ultimately limit an operator’s competitiveness, according to Juniper. Service awareness is achieved through in-depth packet processing and policy control. Policy is enabled by Juniper’s recently announced Session Resource Control products, hardware-based controllers running applications which mange subscribers and network resources. The T1600 also supports the recently introduced point-to-multipoint MPLS (P2MP) feature in the JUNOS operating system. P2MP is intended to provide efficient core video distribution and enhanced optical network integration at 10G and 40Gbps. A potential downside to the T1600 is its initial lack of support on Juniper’s TX switching matrix, a centralized fabric designed to connect T-series routers into a multiterabit-per-second virtual megarouter. Juniper says customers are demanding higher density and capacity in individual elements for scale rather than connecting multiple lower density systems together. Juniper also says TX will require an upgrade to support the 100Gbps-per-slot capacity of the T1600. Company officials did not say when this upgrade would be unveiled. For the full story, please go here.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider equipment coverage. He has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over 12 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at Electronic News and MIS Week. He can be reached at jduffy@nww.com. This newsletter is sponsored by SolarWinds The Shortcut Guide to Network Management for the Mid-Market This guide outlines real-world technologies and processes to implement centralized management of your network infrastructure. Using the OSI FCAPS model as a framework, this eBook explains the critical components of fault, performance, configuration and security management, as well as network troubleshooting and diagnostics. ARCHIVE Archive of the Optical Networking Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007