Cisco Systems unveiled the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, a new class of routing system designed to deliver continuous system operation, service flexibility and extended system longevity to telecommunications service providers and research organizations. This routing system helps enable customers to scale network capacity to new levels and deliver next-generation data, voice and video services over a converged Internet Protocol (IP) network while protecting their investments in the system. The Cisco CRS-1 comprises a series of new hardware and software innovations that include Cisco IOS XR Software, a new member of the Cisco IOS Software family, designed for terabit-scale routing systems built on massively distributed multi-shelf architecture; system capacity of up to 92 terabits per second (Tbps); Optical Carrier (OC)-768c/STM-256c packet interface; Cisco Silicon Packet Processor (SPP), the world's most sophisticated 40-Gbps application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC); extensible Markup Language (XML)-based Cisco Craft Works Interface (CWI), a visual management tool that can manage single-shelf or multishelf systems.
