Server Den: Juniper Fires Back At Cisco CRS-3
Cisco's announcement of its high-speed router has prompted a networking vendor CAT fight. (That's a cabling joke). Competitor Juniper Networks has fired back, accusing Cisco's of "funny math" in its speed claims and basically saying "we were doing this first."
My take: the details at this snapshot in time -- remember, performance is a leapfrog game -- matter less than the fact that this indicates we're on the cusp of a big bandwidth capacity uptick, both in a macro sense and in terms of local 100Gb Ethernet upgrades. Perhaps more importantly, networking companies are attempting to cement their public personas. They want non-technical consumers to know who they are.
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