Cisco spent 500Million + in R&D on their new router.. The CRS-1.
It has "The first OC-768 interface" (~40 Gbps).
This beast takes up 3 full racks. Each line card can do 40Gbps. Total bandwidth: 90Tbps.
My boss had an interesting point, after reading that marketing people were mentioning VOIP. He said "if all 3 billion people in the world called each other, there'd only be a market for two of these things."
Pretty funny :)
This thing is amazing.. just thought I'd share, since I know there's a few network geeks on the list. Oh, and each processor has ~180 cores! <drool>
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2004/hd_052504.html
Can be yours for ~$450,000
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