He notes that the CRS-1 is the first Cisco router to use the kind of modular software that Juniper used seven years ago.
Both consisted of two parts, a client component running on the Cisco 819 router designed to handle machine to machine (M2M) communications and server based software which handles various tasks, such as data analytics.
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More than speed, though, Cisco wants the router to manage complexity.
The company regained the second position behind Cisco in the router market, pushing Huawei down to fourth place in Q3 2012, according to a recent market report by Infonetics Research.
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The networking vendor has of late seen its new products gain healthy traction in the marketplace, helping it regain second position behind Cisco in the router market and push Huawei down to fourth in Q3 2012.
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For a month in early 2000 Cisco Systems, the Internet router king, became the most valuable company on Earth.
The company faces challenges from router competitors like Cisco, Tellabs and Alcatel-lucent.
Chambers is betting their hunger for new revenue will prompt them to flee their old networks to jump onboard the Internet--ready and waiting for Cisco's musclebound new router (see box below).
Using Verizon's wireless network to transmit data, the information is fed to the cloud through Cisco's 819 Integrated Services Router.
"I'd say it was five times easier to find one in a Huawei router than in a Cisco one, " he said.
It's hard to find a normal person who can explain what a router does, yet Cisco edges up to Intel for the biggest market cap in Silicon Valley.
Further, since 4G is an IP-based technology, back-end systems will be upgraded to IP-capable networks and this will provide opportunities for Cisco and other companies in the IP router and infrastructure business.
Although enterprise routers remain the single largest profit driver for Cisco, we note that the service provider router segment (including both edge and core routers) does generate a combined profitability beyond the individual contribution from the enterprise segment.
Cisco may have moved as fast as its new router, afraid Juniper would buy them first.
He claims his router will be 100 times faster than anything Cisco Systems can field.
Juniper competes with Cisco , HP and Alcatel-Lucent in the router market.
With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.
After the June launch of the company's newest router, called the CRS-1, Cisco successfully petitioned Guinness World Records to name the machine the world's fastest networking device.
Cisco dropped that suit after Huawei agreed to remove its router products from the market and change them, but the incident was deeply embarrassing for the Chinese company.
Juniper Networks and Cisco may have had a field day in the core router market cornering over 80% of the market and enjoying a near-duopoly until now but all that might change soon.
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No one guarantees Cisco a return on their investment before they deploy their next router to beat Juniper.
Thanks to that piece of silicon, the new router has about 160 times the processing power of Cisco's last comparable product, its 7200 series.
In recent years, Cisco has been losing its lead in the high-end router space to competitor Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ).
As Cisco continues its integration of network security solutions with its existing router platforms, this will result in higher sales of its security products, thereby boosting its market share.
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In May, Cisco released the Carrier Routing System, a new high-end router designed for use at the heart of service providers' networks.
Cisco with its recent announcement that they are focusing back on their core router business, they would have been crucified by the shareholders if they try to acquire either Nokia or RIM now.
Gathering data from several of Cisco's test customers, he found that the cost to operate the router is a fifth to a half the combined energy usage and maintenance costs of the hardware that hosts the same services.
Intel, which has a special new business development unit, and particularly Cisco Systems, the fast-growing company that has 80% of the network router market, are also snapping up stakes and companies.
Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) on Tuesday unveiled a new router that it claims can handle all these edge computing tasks simultaneously.
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