Comments on: Racing to 100 GB: Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Speeds on Routers, Switches

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:37:07 +0000

Sorry about that. I appreciate the reminder.

By: Piyush

Piyush — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:16:02 +0000

I wonder what Cisco’s response, if any, to this was/is. Do they have a competing product? Om would know :-)

By: Michael Chaney

Michael Chaney — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:25:28 +0000

I hate to be picky but try not to use “GB” and Gb” interchangeably. b = bit, B = Byte (8 bits)
Just trying to avoid any confusion :)

By: Matt Liotta

Matt Liotta — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:40:23 +0000

It would also probably be useful to have an actual 100GbE standard.

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:38:53 +0000

100Gbps interfaces on the router doesn’t mean that you will actually have such high speed interfaces as a last mile to your home. While it will certainly help alleviate some of the traffic bottleneck in the core (since these routers usually sit in the SP Core networks), what this will do is drive down the 10GE interface costs and as a result increase 10GE penetration.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:14:35 +0000

I wish they were available in NC. We are stuck with 1.5 Mbs with Time Warner.

By: Broadband Analyst

Broadband Analyst — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:34:28 +0000

Thanks for providing details on a router that has come from the future. Tell me, when do we get 100 GB broadband?

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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:47:44 +0000

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