The announcement Tuesday that Cisco swore would “forever change the Internet” was a great carrier router that’s supposed to be able to download all the printed contents in the Library of Congress in a second, deliver every movie ever made in four minutes and handle video calls made by every man, woman and child in China simultaneously.
Cisco says it can move a cloud-enabling 322 terabytes a second, 12 times the Internet traffic of the nearest competitive product and clearly is the adrenaline boost to the network that Cisco promised to deal with the burgeoning growth of video transmissions, mobile devices and online services.
The widget, the CRS-3, a 3x upgrade of the existing six-year-old CRS-1 on which Cisco has lavished $1.6 billion developing, is meant for major Internet service providers and folks like AT&T, which was on hand to say it’s been testing the thing between New Orleans and Miami and it looks wizard. AT&T won’t need it for another year or two but it’s happy it’s there.

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