Cisco is really looking to the carrier market to bring it growth while the enterprise market stays sluggish with the economic slowdown. With the upgrades Cisco announced this week to its CRS-1 carrier core router, the company gives carriers an option to squeeze 40Gbps throughput over existing 10Gbps optical transport networks. (Interesting that this upgrade to IP over DWDM is also available at the edge of the network on the company's 12000 and 12000XR routers, too.) Sometimes it seems as if the carrier market is the opposite of the automobile market. In autos, the super-fast, super-charged race cars push the envelop and the engineering from them trickle down into the average automobile. With networks, it is often enterprise technology that influences the carrier. In this case, Cisco, a classic enterprise company is bringing its significant engineering talent to help carriers create ways to increase the performance of their existing IP infrastructure.
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Been there done that back in 2005
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=8970&magid=
Wednesday, December 28, 2005: Juniper Networks, has announced that MCI has successfully demonstrated 40 Gigabit per second (40G) transmission using its T-series core routing platform and new OC-768c/STM-256 interface module based on second generation T-series ASIC technology. Currently, the fastest available optical interface, 40G enables service providers to increase the capacity and efficiency of their core networks to support a growing number of broadband subscribers and high bandwidth applications.
That was OC768 POS
Juniper's test was OC768POS not OC768POSoverDWDM. This news is about technology which Juniper does not have yet.
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