Words from the father of the internet and a bigman at MCI, should make all CSCO holders happy for the future. BFP (where "B" stands for "big" and "Profits") Just think, Catalyst 8500, which is being positioned as a high-end layer 3 switch will be out just in time to help MCI move data at multigigabit sp$$ds.
"Every morning, I worry" that the Net's routers will be unable to handle increasing data loads, Mr. Cerf told the crowd at the Red Herring's Herring on the Enterprise conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
And bandwidth demand won't be met by the deployment of fiber cable alone, according to Mr. Cerf, who runs MCI's Internet operations. "The problem is not the fiber; the problem is the routers." What is needed, he said, is a "BFR" (where "B" stands for "big" and "R" stands for router). By the end of the year, Mr. Cerf anticipates that "we will have at least one router [that moves data] at multigigabit speeds." And we'd better, he added, because by the end of the year so much data will be pushed onto the Net that current infrastructure will not be able to handle it. "This requires at least one miracle" from routermakers such as Cisco, said Mr. Cerf. "I need that BFR so I can build a BFN," (where "B" stands for "big" and "N" stands for "network").
redherring.com
What a country! What a company CSCO is!
Brian |
