Communications and networking company Cisco has announced advancements in its ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.
Earlier this year, the company had said that it would focus on a few technologies including routers as a part of a major restructuring.
The company hopes the enhancements would increase capabilities at the edge of the next-generation Internet and transform the broadband communications and entertainment industries.
The company said that Cisco’s latest innovation, nV (network virtualisation) technology, will be deployed first on the Cisco ASR 9000 system. It will then be extended to other Cisco platforms in the future.
Cisco is expanding the Cisco ASR 9000 Series with the new Cisco ASR 9922 Router and high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 100 GE interfaces for the network edge and the Cisco ASR 9000v for the network aggregation layer.
The new additions, along with the Cisco ASR 9010 and Cisco ASR 9006 Routers, will help deliver a single system for high-speed business and residential connectivity to deliver new video, mobile and cloud services, said the company.
Cisco predicts that the number of network-connected devices will be more than 15 billion, twice the world’s population, and the total amount of global Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 and reach 966 exabytes per year.
The company said that the advancements in the routers would help service providers to grow in the rapidly changing environment and capitalise on the rapidly growing need for data.
The Cisco ASR 9000 system is positioned in the edge and aggregation sections of the network and complements the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) located in the core of the next-generation Internet.
The company said that the enhancements include: new network virtualization technology; better network capacity; simplified network operations; and simplified IPv6 and Cisco Videoscape transition:
