Cisco has announced new products across its portfolio at the latest Cisco Live event. For telecom operators, the company presented new elements of its Routed Optical Networking platform featuring Acacia pluggable optics and a mass-scale routing portfolio, promising lower costs for handling increased traffic and bringing more people online.
Part of the company's Converged SDN Transport Architecture, Routed Optical Networking works by merging IP and private line services onto a single layer where all the switching is done at Layer 3. Routers are connected hop-by-hop with standardized pluggable coherent optics. Supported by the recently acquired Acacia components, Cisco estimates operators can achieve savings of 46 percent in total cost of ownership with the platform, including 57 percent less in recurring operational costs.
The networking portfolio is built on the Silicon One architecture first introduced in 2019. This has expanded from a routing-focused solution to one which also addresses the web scale switching market, offering ten networking chips ranging from 3.2 Tbps to 25.6 Tbps. Cisco's latest 8000 family of routers features the Silicon One Q200 series chips offering up to 14.4 Tbps total capacity, enabling 32 and 64 times 100G web scale switches.
The company is also introducing powerful new line cards and chassis for the Cisco Aggregated Service Router 9000 series and Network Convergence System 500 and 5500 series routers, providing increased capacity with capital and operational cost savings. In addition, new Crosswork Network Controller features help customers operate the Cisco Routed Optical Networking system.
The latest product addition is the new Cisco Cloud Native Broadband Network Gateway for wireline operators, joining the routers already available for cable and mobile. This paves the way for convergence to a unified subscriber management system regardless of network, bringing further simplification and efficiency, Cisco said.
Finally, Crosswork Cloud delivers a new application called Traffic Analysis, offering a comprehensive view across network peering points. With this insight, Traffic Analysis provides actionable recommendations to optimize traffic at the network edge to help prevent impact on the customer experience.
