Next Generation Switch/Router

• high-capacity switching of IP datagrams
  • 20-60 Gbps switches available now
  • 100-1000 Gbps packet switches under EFT now
• higher-speed WAN and LAN interfaces
  • OC48c packet i/fs in production deployment now
  • OC192c (10 Gbps) packet i/fs in beta soon
• advanced functionality
  • ASICs for classification and policing, FIB lookup and queueing algorithms
  • pipelined processing of packet headers
  • flexible and hierarchical queuing and dropping

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