Cisco broadens 10G support

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By Jim Duffy
12:42 PM EST

ATLANTA -- Cisco Systems today unveiled new interfaces for the 12000 Series Internet Routers based on Ethernet and Dynamic Packet Transport /Resilient Packet Ring (DPT/RPR) technologies.

For Ethernet , Cisco rolled out single port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) router line card. Cisco also introduced 10 Gigabit DPT/RPR line cards for packet-optimized ring architectures.

The interfaces are intended to enable service providers to scale their Ethernet infrastructures and deploy 10G bit/sec bandwidth in more places than they could before, Cisco says.

Since its introduction five years ago, Cisco has deployed over 20,000 12000 series routers worldwide, the company says.

The one-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card starts at $175,000. There are two 10G bit/sec DPT/RPR interfaces: a one-port OC-192/STM-64 DPT line card starts at $150,000, and a four-port OC-48/STM-16 DPT line card starts at $240,000.

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