Cisco ASR 9000: Cisco Lifts the Metro Ethernet Aggregation Bar to a Whole New Level

This IDC Flash presents Cisco Systems' announcement of the release of its new Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 on November 11, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. Designed to take multiplay service providers (SPs) into the next decade with a massive 6.4TBps of capacity throughput, the router also offers a plethora of next-generation network (NGN) capabilities and video management functionality. Appeasing the pain points of SPs around the globe in relation to international capacity backhaul costs and converged networking capabilities including voice, data, video, and mobile backhaul, the ASR 9000 has taken the metro Ethernet aggregation market to a whole new level.