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CRS-1: The Foundation for the Future of Communications
May 25, 2004
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Cisco Systems has created the Cisco Carrier Routing System One (CRS-1), the culmination of the most ambitious project in the company's 20-year history. The CRS-1 is the industry's first router to scale to over 90 terabits of bandwidth capacity, as well as providing the industry's first true OC-768 fiber optic interface. It offers more than four times greater speed and over 100 times greater capacity than any router on the market. CRS-1 is the device that will help telecommunications companies complete the move from the analog age to the digital age, from the era of the phone to the era of the Internet. Welcome to the future of communications.
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| NEWS AND FEATURES | | |
News Releases
- Cisco Delivers the Foundation for Next Generation IP Networks: Cisco Carrier Routing System
- MCI Demonstrates World's Fastest IP Network Connection
- StrataLight Provides 40-Gigabit Transport Equipment for 'World's Fastest IP Network Connection'
Feature Articles
- Opening the Floodgates to the Information Age
- A New Era in Communications Begins with CRS-1
- CRS-1 Heralds New Era for Modern Communications
- Dan Lenoski: Just Super-Size It: Engineering the World's Most Powerful Router
- Rajiv Deshmukh: Brawny New Chips Push CRS-1 to Heights of Processing Power and Scalability
- Ayman Sayed: Putting CRS-1 Far Ahead of the Competitive Pack
- David Tsiang: A Revolutionary Approach to Router Power, Scalability, and Availability
- David Ward: Building an Operating System to Take the Internet to the Next Level
- Evolving Last Century's Networks for the Information Age
The 20th Anniversary of Cisco Systems
- Celebrating 20 Years of Changing the Way We Live, Work, Play and Learn
- Cisco Systems Timeline: The Past 20 Years
- Interactive Overview - 20 Years of Cisco Innovation
| WEBCAST INFORMATION | | |
Webcast: Watch the webcast replay.
CRS-1 Demo Guide (PDF - 669 KB)
| VIDEOS AND PHOTOS | | |
Videos
- CRS-1 Innovators - The Cisco Carrier Routing System is a revolutionary ground-up development that focuses on high-end infrastructure for next generation networks.
- Innovations with CRS-1 - A look at the last 20 years of routing history, where Cisco has revolutionized networks and set the communication standard for the next 20 years and beyond.
- One Network for the Future - Cisco SVP, Mike Volpi, and CRS-1 customers discuss the introduction of the CRS-1, and how it will change the way the world builds networks in the future.
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Photos from the Event
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| John Chambers, left, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, and Mike Volpi, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Routing Technology Group, unveil the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. | John Chambers, left, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, and Mike Volpi, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Routing Technology Group, unveil the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. |
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| John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, speaks during the unveiling the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System | John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, unveils the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. |
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| John Chambers, left, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, and Mike Volpi, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Routing Technology Group, are pictured at the unveiling the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. | John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, speaks during the unveiling of the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. |
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| John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, speaks during the unveiling of the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. | Mike Volpi, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Routing Technology Group, unveils the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. |
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| Mike Volpi, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Routing Technology Group, speaks during the unveiling of the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. | Mike Volpi, left, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Routing Technology Group, and Jim Grubb, Cisco chief demonstration officer, speak with Jack Wimmer, live on screen at left, MCI vice president of Network Architecture and Advanced Technology, during a demonstration of the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. |
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| John Morgridge, Cisco Systems chairman, demonstrates high-volume Internet music downloading over the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. | Dan Scheiman, Cisco Systems senior vice president of Corporate Development, demonstrates high-volume online gaming over the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. |
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| Rick Moran, Cisco Systems vice president of Product Technology Marketing Organization, demonstrates high-volume Internet Protocol Video Telephony over the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. | Mike Volpi, left, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Routing Technology Group, and Jim Grubb, Cisco chief demonstration officer, demonstrate the world's fastest Internet Protocol transmission, over 40 gigabites per second, over the new Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. |
| ROUTING RESOURCES | | |
Market Perspective
- Routing Innovations At a Glance (PDF - 46KB)
- Routing Glossary
- DARPA Funds Joint Industrial-Academic Effort to Develop Advanced Optical Packet Router Technologies
- Advanced Research Project Lays The Groundwork For All-Optical Network of Future
- Kirk Lougheed: Cisco Systems' First Innovator
- Cisco 7000 Series Router: The Technology That Fueled the New Economy
- Reflecting on the Last 20 Years - Enabling the Carrier IP Foundation
- Cisco Carrier Routing Systems Product Information
- Fact Sheet: Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-1) (PDF - 48KB)
- Fact Sheet: IOS Software Family (PDF - 62KB)
- Solution Overview: Next Generation Networks and the Cisco Carrier Routing System (PDF - 949KB)
- Cisco Carrier Routing Systems Brochure (PDF - 1 MB)
| SPEAKER BIOS | | |
| Cisco Systems | ||
| John Chambers, President and Chief Executive Officer | biography | photos |
| Mike Volpi, Senior Vice President, Routing Technology Group | biography | photos |
| Tony Bates, Vice President and General Manager, CCMCBU | biography (PDF - 224KB) | photos |
| Customer Panelists | ||
| Jonathan Crane, President of International Wholesale Markets, MCI | biography | |
| Masayuki Nomura, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Broadband IP Business Service Division, NTT Communications Corporation | biography (PDF - 79KB) | |
| Wolfgang Schmitz, Senior Executive Vice President, Technology Engineering, T-Com | biography (PDF - 89KB) | |
| Kathryn A. Walker, Executive Vice President, Network Service, Sprint Corporation | biography | |
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| Charles Sommerhauser 925 371-6341 csommerh@cisco.com | Jeanette Gibson 408 525-8965 jegibson@cisco.com | Rachael Myles 408-853-7660 ramyles@cisco.com |
| Martina Moscone 408 853-6849 mmoscone@cisco.com | Ron Piovesan 408 527-0287 rpiovesa@cisco.com | |
| Investor Relations | ||
| Blair Christie 408 525-4856 blchrist@cisco.com | ||
| Liz Lemon 408 527-8452 lemon@cisco.com | ||
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