All of that video streaming and social networking traffic is putting pressure on Internet providers to boost their capacity. Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) is responding with its latest router offering.
Cisco recently forecast tremendous increases in data demand over the Internet.
The networking equipment company on Wednesday introduced the Carrier Routing System-X, or CRS-X. Cisco said the new system will offer speeds of 400 Gigabits per second that can be expanded to nearly 1 petabit per second in a multi-chassis deployment.
For comparison, the CRS-X provides 10 times the capacity of the original CRS-1 which made its debut in 2004. At that time, the CRS-1 was in a new class of routing equipment designed to give networks the capacity to accommodate the proliferation in video, data and mobile traffic.
Cisco said that the CRS-X will be available later this year.
The new equipment is expected to produce a big revenue boost for Cisco.
Since 2004, Cisco CRS sales have produced $8 billion in revenue, Reuters reported Cisco as saying.
“The CRS-X is the innovation we need to cross the $10 billion barrier,” Stephen Liu, director of service provider marketing for Cisco, told Reuters.
Reuters noted that Cisco reported total revenue of over $12 billion for its last quarter.
Verizon Wireless, and SoftBank Corp, which is seeking to buy Sprint, plan to buy the new router, Reuters noted.
Cisco operates its second largest corporate campus in RTP.
