Cisco is expected to unveil a new service provider edge router on Nov. 11 that’s likely to succeed its aging 7600 series Ethernet platforms, according to an analyst’s report. Oppenheimer & Co. this ...

Edge router design begins with requirements similar to those of core routers, while adding a range of complex requirements. The big difference is that while core routers are designed with one purpose ...

Organizations today are too dependent on the Internet to experience any downtime when upgrading from IPv4 to IPv6. But help is on the way. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined ...

Redback Networks is taking shots at Cisco’s 7600 edge router, just when the six-year-old product is ready to become a more direct competitor to Redback’s offerings. Redback Networks is taking shots at ...

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...

First off, let me just thank everyone in advance for reading this post. There are several variables in this equation which will no doubt drive people crazy, but I am locked into them for at least the ...

Start-up Crescent Networks this week became the latest entrant into the edge-router field with a platform for delivery of routed network services to enterprises and service providers. The Chelmsford, ...